Material Security

Elad Gil is an active angel investor and was the co-founder of Color Genomics and former vice president of Twitter.

SF-based seed investor. They are way pavers for founders, making vital connections for fundraising, talent, customers and advice. They are dot connectors, counting the world’s most visionary investors, founders and industry leaders as our allies. They are first movers, operating at the speed of our founders and matching the creative hustle required to achieve unimaginable goals.

SF-based venture capital firm investing in science and technology companies solving difficult problems. The firm invests at all stages across a wide variety of sectors. Founders Fund pursues a founder-friendly investment strategy, providing maximum support with minimum interference.

$50M seed-stage operator fund led by Raymond Tonsing. Thesis and stage agnostic firm. They typically partner with founders at the inception stage and invest throughout the life of the company.

Led by the founders of Flatiron Health (acquired by Roche). They prefer to invest alongside a lead VC check (and if there's no lead yet, they'll help the founder find one).

Passionate about mission-driven companies with a focus on consumer tech and consumer health companies. Over twenty years of experience in the e-commerce/marketplace, media, content and mobile space. Experience in managing large organizations as well as start-ups such as Airbnb (Global Operations), Clover Health, International for LivingSocial overseeing Asia, Europe, ANZ and Latam.

Co-Founder and Chairman at Color Genomics. Was CEO of Color from 2013 to fall 2016. Investor or advisor to private companies such as AirBnB, Airtable, Anduril, Anchorage, Coinbase, dbt Labs, Deel, Figma, Flexport, Gitlab, Gusto, Instacart, Notion, Opendoor, OpenSea, PagerDuty, Pinterest, Retool, Samsara, Square, Stripe, TripActions. Previously, was the VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter. Joined Twitter via the acquisition of MixerLabs, a company was co-founder and CEO of. MixerLabs ran GeoAPI, one of the early developer-centric platform infrastructure products.

Passionate about mission-driven companies with a focus on consumer tech and consumer health companies. Over twenty years of experience in the e-commerce/marketplace, media, content and mobile space. Experience in managing large organizations as well as start-ups such as Airbnb (Global Operations), Clover Health, International for LivingSocial overseeing Asia, Europe, ANZ and Latam. Prior roles include, CEO of SingTel Digital Media, publisher of inSing.com and VP/GM of Oldnavy.com, the e-commerce arm of Old Navy. Deep expertise in scaling growth, teams and markets. Founder and Co-CEO of Eve.com. Launched business and grew to 125 person organization; Raised $25M in venture capital and negotiated successful exit in early 2000. Specialties: General management, operations, sales mgmt, marketing, e-commerce, internet/mobile content, online advertising, online marketing, brand development, product development, strategy, raising venture capital, angel investing, advising start-ups.

Avichal Garg’s tour through tech began at Google, and he landed at Facebook in 2012 after the social-media giant bought Spool, his mobile bookmarking startup. At Facebook, he led product management for a 400-engineer team. His investing career involved a brief stint at Y Combinator, after which he struck out on his own to build Electric Capital, a firm that invests across fintech and crypto. He’s now among the beneficiaries of a wave of capital pouring into Web3 — a catchall term for crypto, blockchain, and metaverse companies — with two newly closed funds worth $1 billion.

Zane was previously the cofounder and chief security officer of Signal Sciences, which was acquired by Fastly for $775 million in 2020, and the author of Building a Modern Security Program. Prior to Signal Sciences, Zane led security and infrastructure teams as the CISO of Etsy, and started his career as an early security consultant at iSEC Partners. Zane holds a BA in Economics with a minor in Computer Science from UC Davis.

Martin was previously the cofounder and chief technology officer at Nicira, which was acquired by VMware for $1.26 billion in 2012. While at VMware, Martin was a fellow, and served as senior vice president and general manager of the Networking and Security Business Unit, which he scaled to a $600 million run-rate business by the time he left VMware in 2016. He started his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked on large-scale simulations for the Department of Defense before moving over to work with the intelligence community on networking and cybersecurity. These experiences inspired his work at Stanford where he created the software-defined networking (SDN) movement, leading to a new paradigm of network virtualization. While at Stanford he also cofounded Illuminics Systems, an IP analytics company, which was acquired by Quova Inc. in 2006.

Focuses on startups operating in the government space. Previously, Trae was an early employee at Palantir Technologies, where he led teams focused on growth in the intelligence/defense space as well as international expansion, helping large organizations solve their hardest dataanalysis problems.