Lucian Todea is a Romanian-born serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor who built Soft32 from a $3/month passion project into one of the world's largest software distribution platforms, co-founded MultiversX (formerly Elrond) - a pioneering layer-1 blockchain - and now serves as Partner at 2048 Ventures in New York, where he has invested in 200+ companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, Chainalysis, Suno, and Kraken. An Ironman finisher and relentless builder, Todea embodies the conviction that technology exists not for its own sake, but to improve and enrich human lives.
Minda Brusse is a Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures and Co-founding Partner at First Row Partners, a pre-seed firm backing technology companies that empower brand builders, content creators, and storytellers. With 25+ years in the startup ecosystem spanning Andersen Consulting, multiple co-founder roles, angel investing, and fund management, she also teaches Angel Investing and entrepreneurship at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business. A champion of expanding participation in Pacific Northwest venture capital, she co-founded The 1K Project during the pandemic, raising $3.3M for 1,100 families in need.
Paul Sethi is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of 2048 Ventures, a New York-based pre-seed and seed venture capital firm he co-founded with Alex Iskold in 2019. With a career spanning hedge funds, operational leadership, and over two decades of early-stage angel investing across 50+ companies - including unicorns like Flexport, SeatGeek, and Notion - Sethi brings rare dual credibility as both operator and investor. He scaled and sold Redbooks (spun out of LexisNexis) for a 10x+ return and co-founded Robuzz, an ML/NLP platform exited in 2022. His firm, which has grown from a $27M Fund I to an oversubscribed $82M Fund III, backs founders building in vertical AI, deep tech, healthcare, and fintech - with a Founder NPS of 100 and a commitment to review every single pitch.
Rachel Lyubovitzky is a serial entrepreneur who has founded four B2B technology companies and exited three of them, generating approximately $12 billion in combined exits with her co-founders. She is the CEO, co-founder, and Chairwoman of Setuply, an AI-powered client onboarding and lifecycle management platform, and a Partner at 2048 Ventures, a pre-seed and seed stage VC firm. With a Wharton Executive MBA and a computer science background from Brandeis University, she bridges deep technical fluency with executive leadership - having built and sold companies in HR tech, benefits automation, and search. She is also a Forbes Technology Council member, a published author, and has visited more than 60 countries.
Rachel Soper Sanders is a Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures and the CEO and co-founder of Rootine, a precision nutrition company that personalizes cellular health through DNA analysis and biometric data. A Harvard Business School MBA and former healthcare investment banker at Raymond James who worked on $5B+ in M&A deals, she pivoted from Wall Street to wellness after personally battling burnout and fatigue. She co-founded Rootine in 2018 with Dr. Daniel Wallerstorfer, raised a $3M seed round and a $10M Series A, launched the Apex Optimizers NFT project bridging web3 and health optimization, and hosts the Smart Health with Rachel Sanders podcast. She brings over a decade of health-tech experience across investment banking, product strategy, and company building to her venture investing role.