Venmo

Helps early-stage founders with the capital and tools they need to build ideas into category-defining companies.

Led by investors including Micah Rosenbloom, David Frankel & Eric Paley, Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses.

Over the past 28 years, RRE has become one of NYC’s oldest, largest, and most active venture capital firms. They have $2.5B AUM across 10 funds and 400+ portfolio companies. The firm recently raised their $250M Fund VIII.

Active investments include Branch Insurance, Ergatta, Fetch Rewards, Flutterwave, HealthVerity, Knock, Landing, Medly, Pie Insurance, and Public.com.  His notable exits include Braintree (acquired by eBay), Bright Health Group (IPO), Buddy Media (acquired by Salesforce), Shipt (acquired by Target), and Venmo (acquired by Braintree). Prior to Greycroft, Ian founded StrongData, a pioneer in payment encryption, and spent several years as a venture capitalist with Boston Millennia Partners.

Prior to founding SignalFire, Chris was a Venture Partner with General Catalyst Partners (2010–13), where he played a significant role in establishing the California office. He led GC’s successful seed investment program including seed investments in Alation, ClassDojo, Coinbase, Discord, Fivetran, Game Closure/PlayCo, Getaround, Stripe, Venmo, and Zapier. Chris was previously a Vice President with Bessemer Venture Partners (2005–09) where he led investments in digital media and mobile companies. Prior to Bessemer, Chris was a Consultant with Bain & Company where he advised on technology buyouts. Chris began his career on Wall Street in the private equity group of Cowen & Company.

Sam is currently the co-CEO of Fin and a General Partner at Slow Ventures. He was formerly a vice president of product management at Facebook from 2010 to 2014, where he managed the People, Places, and Things product group and the Identity product group. Prior to joining Facebook Sam founded drop.io, a file-sharing platform that was acquired byFacebook in 2010. Before drop.io Sam was an associate at Bain and Company. In his spare time Sam enjoys skiing and kite-surfing. He writes a column at The Information, where he interns.

Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures. He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.

Neil Shah joined Greenoaks Capital in 2013. Prior to Greenoaks Capital, Neil was with Vista Equity Partners focused on enterprise software buyouts and carveouts. He also helped launch Vista's first credit fund (VCO). Neil holds a BSc from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Andrew has 25+ years of venture capital and private equity investment and operational experience with entrepreneurial growth companies. Prior to VU, he is a former General Partner for 17 years at RRE Ventures, a leading technology venture capital firm with $1.5B across seven funds.

Andrew is Involved in nearly 200 investments and has served on more than 30 boards in the US, Europe and Asia, and has been instrumental in generating industry-leading returns and providing experience and resources to help companies build teams, attack new market opportunities, identify and secure strategic initiatives / partnerships and achieve profitable growth in all phases of development