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Ashu Garg
Ashu Garg is a General Partner at Foundation Capital in Palo Alto, where he writes the first check into deeply technical, pre-revenue founders building AI-first enterprise companies. He was an early investor in Databricks and six unicorns including Cohesity, Eightfold, Amperity, Turing, Anyscale, and Alation. He hosts the B2BaCEO podcast and convenes Foundation's annual CEO Summit.
Joanne Chen
Joanne Chen is a General Partner at Foundation Capital, a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm, where she leads the Enterprise practice with a focus on AI-first B2B applications and data platforms. The daughter of Chinese immigrants - a mathematician father who came to North America after Tiananmen Square and a computer scientist mother - Chen built her first client webpage at age nine, studied electrical engineering at UC Berkeley, and went from Cisco engineer to Wall Street banker to startup co-founder before landing in venture capital. She became Foundation Capital's second female General Partner in its 26-year history in 2021 (the first since co-founder Kathryn Gould), has backed category-defining companies like TubiTV (acquired by Fox for ~$500M), Jasper.AI, and Tonkean, and is a recognized voice on AI investing through TEDx talks and podcast appearances.
Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson is a British-American entrepreneur, author, CEO coach, and General Partner at Flex Capital — a $200M+ venture fund backing 200+ category-defining companies including Perplexity, Vercel, Rippling, and Supabase. He founded Lemonaid Health in San Francisco in 2013, pioneering nationwide digital telehealth and prescription delivery, raised $60M+, scaled to nearly 200 employees, and sold the company to 23andMe for $400 million in 2021. Since then, he has written two Nobel laureate biographies, coaches high-growth CEOs, and invests in early-stage AI and fintech startups — while competing in professional-level pickleball tournaments.
Brian Singerman
Brian Singerman spent 16 years as a General Partner at Founders Fund - Peter Thiel's celebrated contrarian VC firm - backing SpaceX, Anduril, OpenAI, Stripe, and Scale AI before the world knew what they would become. He founded iGoogle at Google in 2005, built one of the first YC-focused investment vehicles (XGYC), and developed a reputation as one of the most conviction-driven investors of his generation. In late 2024, he transitioned to Partner Emeritus at Founders Fund, then co-founded GPx - a $500M debut fund with a structural twist on the VC model - with Lee Linden, backed significantly by Peter Thiel.
Martin Casado
Martin Casado is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz leading the firm's infrastructure practice. A Spanish-born computer scientist and entrepreneur, he pioneered software-defined networking (SDN) by inventing the OpenFlow protocol during his Stanford PhD. He co-founded Nicira Networks, which VMware acquired for $1.26 billion in 2012, where he then scaled the networking and security business to $600 million in annual revenue. An ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award winner, Casado now invests in cutting-edge infrastructure and AI companies, serving on boards of over a dozen startups while shaping the future of enterprise technology and AI regulation policy.
Sarah Guo
Sarah Guo is the founder of Conviction, an AI-native venture capital firm that has backed some of the most valuable AI startups including Harvey ($3B), Mistral ($6B), and Sierra ($4.5B). A former general partner at Greylock - where she became one of the youngest and first female GPs in the firm's 53-year history - Guo co-hosts the influential No Priors podcast with Elad Gil and ranks #21 on Forbes' 2025 Midas Seed List. Before venture, she worked at Goldman Sachs helping take companies like Workday public.
Justine Moore
Justine Moore is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) where she invests in AI-native consumer products and generative media, with a portfolio spanning companies like ElevenLabs and Viggle AI. A Stanford alum who co-founded Cardinal Ventures as a student, she launched the 'Accelerated' newsletter with her identical twin sister Olivia (also a partner at a16z), and together they are known as the 'Venture Twins.' Before a16z, Justine spent four years at CRV investing in DTC and consumer startups, and briefly took an operator role at Canal between VC stints. Her mother was a venture investor, making her something of VC royalty who grew up watching pitch meetings from a stroller.