Annie Case is a former NCAA national champion soccer player from Stanford who scaled Uber and Uber Eats during their hyper-growth phase before joining Kleiner Perkins in 2018, where she was promoted to partner in just a few years. She focuses on early-stage consumer, healthcare, and marketplace companies, drawing on her operator experience at Uber to support founders dealing with rapid scaling challenges.

• Emphasis on healthcare innovation, specifically AI-driven solutions that reduce administrative burnout for clinicians. She frequently highlights the value of tools like Ambience, which provides automated medical scribes to let providers focus on patient care rather than late-night paperwork.
• Interest in applied AI across consumer and media sectors. She celebrated Inkitt for using data and AI tools to democratize publishing, helping authors optimize their stories for commercial success and reach wider audiences.
• A strong connection to the personal reality of the founder journey, often drawing parallels between startup life and raising a family. She openly discusses the challenges of building a company while parenting, referencing her husband's experience founding Kubecost and her own experience being pregnant at the same time as founders she works with.
• Support for the business of women's sports and female leadership. She actively cheers for platforms like Just Women's Sports that are modernizing coverage and drew on her own history as a former Stanford soccer teammate when congratulating peers in the space.
• Encouragement for talent leaving stable jobs to make high-conviction bets on themselves. She has positioned herself as an advocate for individuals looking to quit traditional roles to pursue mission-driven work or early-stage entrepreneurship.
• Appreciation for autonomous technology and product resilience. She shared her experience using Waymo in San Francisco to illustrate a definition of product-market fit, noting that she remains a loyal user even when the service faces road infrastructure challenges.