Elevate

Helps the daring build legendary companies, from idea to IPO and beyond.

Designer Fund is an early stage investor in tech startups that are design leaders including Stripe, Gusto, and Omada Health.

Focuses on supporting and investing in the shared future. Their funds center around two macro themes: the growth of the creative class, and the concept of the collaborative economy.

Believes that iconic companies transcend boundaries: they can be built anywhere, by anyone, and in any corner of the economy, from curing rare diseases at scale to powering global payments for organizations of all sizes. They partner with founders around the world, across sectors, and at various stages, primarily before success is obvious.

Led by 4 technical GPs who met in engineering at UPenn, Eniac is armed with over 80 years of combined experience building their own companies, and are your active partners and roll up their sleeves to work for you. Their companies enjoy support in biz dev, fundraising, networking, ops, PR, and recruitment.

Previously called 500 Startups, 500 Global has backed over 5,000 founders representing more than 2,600 companies operating in 80 countries. Their portfolio includes 51 companies valued at over $1 billion and 140 companies valued at over $100 million.

Venture fund focused on startups with pilots or revenue that are ready to scale.

I look for audacious authenticity. The audacious part is that it has to be a big idea that will truly make a difference in the world. But to me, authenticity is most important. Someone who understands a problem space better than anyone else will be the absolute best steward for their company. They’re never going to give up on their idea, and no one can compete with their instincts and commitment. My goal is to be a founder’s first call. That’s not something you can add to a term sheet. It has to be earned—through trust, delivery and being there when things are messy and hard. Real company-building is not glamorous work. I thrive on partnering with people who will make a dent in tomorrow—and on being there with whatever they need to maximize that dent.

Founder & Managing Partner at Collaborative Fund.

Sundeep Peechu is a General Partner and founding member at Felicis. He led Felicis’ investments in Cedar, Coalition, Earnin, HealthIQ, Juniper Square, Komodo Health, Plaid, Pindrop, Picnic Health and a few others. He also led Felicis’ investments in Ginkgo Bioworks (IPO: $DNA), Matterport (IPO: $MTTR), Recursion Pharma (IPO: $RXRX), Wish (IPO: $WISH). Prior to joining Felicis in 2010, he held various product roles at Intel within the software division. Sundeep joined Intel through the acquisition of Sarvega, where he was an early employee responsible for the design of the security infrastructure. Sundeep has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, a M.S in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Hadley has done a little bit of everything on the path to co-founding Eniac. Starting as a developer and engineering team lead at Pegasystems, he later took on roles as a product manager at Microsoft and strategist at Samsung, where it became clear that big companies were not for him. Hadley is passionate about improving the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, which stems from his close relationship with his brother Traves. He is a Board Director for Cardinal Cushing Centers, which serves adults and children with intellectual disabilities across 4 campuses in Massachusetts.

Vic's current areas of interest include climate, crypto, deep tech, and developer tools. Vic is a seasoned operator having founded three venture-backed startups across mesh networking, communications, and developer platforms. He previously served as founder and CEO of Kanvas, a mobile platform for creativity which he led to a successful exit by Aol. Vic also founded Tracks to build the experiential graph and NearVerse for proximity based p2p mesh networking. Before he was a founder, Vic was a venture capitalist at RRE Ventures where he focused on cleantech, consumer, deep tech, and fintech. He also served as a VC at DFJ Gotham and Chart Venture Ventures. Vic started his career as a full stack developer building large scale enterprise systems.