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Silicon Badia is a venture capital firm that invests in technology companies globally.

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.

Seed-stage investment firm committed to identifying, financing and developing early stage growth businesses led by promising entrepreneurs.

Afore has $300M in AUM across 3 funds and 75+ portfolio companies - almost everyone was pre-traction, pre-revenue, and “pre-obvious” when Afore invested. They are focused on helping companies accelerate their trajectory by taking them straight to Series A as quickly as possible (the majority of Afore portfolio companies jump from a $1M raise to a $5 - 10M raise in 12 - 18 months).

VC firm investing in companies committed to empowering small businesses. They invest in companies that deliver more efficient, well-designed financial products that save people time and money, create upward mobility, and scale broadly – driving both profit margins and consumer value.

Sand Hill Angels is a group of Silicon Valley angel investors passionate about helping entrepreneurs get to the next level.

Early-stage technology venture capital investment firm that invests in different technology sectors.

The first VC fund founded in Brooklyn, NY, and the most accessible lead or co-lead investor for pre-seed and seed-stage startups in the NYC area. Led by experienced investor Charlie O'Donnell, they invest exclusively in NYC-based companies. They also prefer leading pre/seed rounds.

Invests in world-class entrepreneurs at the earliest stages and support them over the long haul.

Pre-seed venture capital fund focused on the automation of manual processes in legacy industries. Story invests across the data stack, with a focus on data capture, data aggregation, and data application (i.e. machine learning).

Leading LGBTQIA+/Allies investment syndicate that has invested $110M+ in 200+ companies since 2016.

After being hired as the first analyst at Union Square Ventures and helping to open First Round Capital’s first NYC office as a Principal, Charlie founded Brooklyn Bridge Ventures in 2012 He helped source First Round’s investments in GroupMe (acq. by Skype), SinglePlatform (acq. by Constant Contact), Moat (acq. by Oracle) and Backupify (acq. by Datto)

Andrew is a founding Partner at Valar Ventures. Andrew’s career in technology has included business and corporate development roles at eCount (acquired by Citicorp) and Yahoo!. He joined PayPal in 2001, where he worked closely with Peter. After PayPal’s sale to eBay, Andrew helped launch Clarium Capital and later founded a restaurant group in San Francisco. In 2008, Andrew rejoined Peter at Thiel Capital, where he led various international initiatives for Thiel Capital and Peter personally.

Prior to Valar, James was COO and General Counsel of Peter Thiel’s global parent company, Thiel Capital, where he helped manage Peter’s network of investments and businesses. Prior to joining Thiel Capital, James practiced law for seven years in the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

a career entrepreneur with a focus on creating marketplaces and disrupting inefficient supply chains. co-founder of Seamless (formerly Seamless Web), Cleaner Options, mdenergy, Blue Ribbon Partners and domino Media Group. began his career as an attorney for Latham & Watkins in NYC  serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the JCC of Manhattan and is a member of NY Angels

Gautam is an experienced early-stage investor having made 26 seed-stage investments through Founder Collective. He was one of the first Product Managers for Android (led the Nexus product line); joined the platform when they had less than 1M total users (today >2.5B). He was recognized with the Founders Award, highest employee achievement award at Google, for his contributions to Android. Gautam also co-founded Polar in 2007, leading native ads platform.

Ramtin is the founder and general partner of Abstract Ventures.

also serves as the Chairman of the firm's management committee and co-head of its investment committee. Founding Sponsor and CEO of Rosecliff Acquisition Corp. Began his financial services career at Oppenheimer. Prior to founding Rosecliff, he was a serial entrepreneur in the financial services industry., founding an investment banking firm and a long short hedge fund.

Investments include Acorns, Allbirds, Atom Finance, Away, Bolt, Cardless, David Energy, Equipment Share, Fetch Rewards, Haus, Human Interest, Kargo, Maven Clinic, Moov, Oula Health, Petal, Real Therapy, Sundays for Dogs, Truebill, Workrise (formerly RigUp), Virta Health, Vise. In addition to his work at Great Oaks, Henry serves as a board member for Runway for Recovery, a non-profit working to direct vital funds to children and families who are affected by breast cancer to lessen the burden and obstacles of losing a caregiver to the disease.

Dylan Field is the CEO / Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world.