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John Bertrand Built the Bridge AI Needed to Leave the Lab
His career is a study in the unglamorous work that makes ambitious technology usable: translate the science, earn trust, fit the workflow, and give the team a next step by Monday.
David Snider
David Snider is the founder and CEO of Harness, a New York wealthtech company that pairs people navigating startup equity, taxes, and estate decisions with a curated network of tax, financial, and legal advisers. Before Harness, he was COO and CFO of Compass, where he helped scale the real estate platform from pre-launch to a $1.8 billion valuation and raised every round from Series A through E. Earlier he invested more than $2 billion in deals at Bain Capital private equity and, as a college senior, wrote Money Makers, a finance primer built from interviews with leaders like Jamie Dimon and David Rubenstein.
Anjali Sardana
Anjali Sardana is the 24-year-old founder and CEO of Pronto, a Bengaluru-based instant home-services startup that brings household help - sweeping, mopping, dishwashing, laundry - to a customer's door in about ten minutes. A Georgetown biology graduate and former investor at Bain Capital and 8VC, she launched Pronto in 2025 and scaled it from roughly 1,000 daily bookings to more than 25,000 within a year, reaching a $200 million valuation with backing from Epiq Capital, General Catalyst, Bain Capital Ventures and Lachy Groom. Her stated mission is less about speed than dignity: giving India's invisible domestic workforce a formal identity, real pay, and standing.
Luke Suydam
Luke Suydam is the Co-CEO of Page Vault, the legal-tech company whose patented technology lets lawyers capture web and social media content as court-admissible evidence. A former Bain Capital private equity investor with a Stanford MBA and a Dartmouth degree in philosophy and economics, Suydam left the buy-side to buy a company of his own. In 2022, alongside business-school friend Alex Sappington, he acquired Page Vault through a thesis-driven search fund and the two have run it as co-CEOs ever since, steering it onto the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies three years running.
Andy Ballard
Andy Ballard is the CEO and co-founder of Wiser Solutions, Inc., the San Mateo-based omnichannel retail intelligence platform he built through the 2017 merger of Quad Analytix and Mobee. A Harvard undergrad and Stanford MBA, Ballard spent nearly a decade at Hellman & Friedman where he sat on the boards of DoubleClick, Getty Images, Internet Brands, and Catalina Marketing before launching Quad Analytix in 2012. Today he leads a 510-person company that tracks billions of online and in-store data points for over 750 global brands and retailers, while also serving on the boards of Domino's Pizza and Etsy, and running Figtree Partners, his software-focused investment firm.
Nicolai Ouporov
Nicolai 'Nic' Ouporov is Co-Founder and CEO of Fleet AI, a startup building reinforcement learning training environments - or 'RL gyms' - that let AI agents practice operating real software tools like Salesforce and Excel before deployment. Fleet raised ~$45M total and grew from $1M to $60M+ annualized revenue in under a year. Nic is also a 3x YoungArts Award winner in photography and visual arts, a former pre-professional ballet dancer trained at Boston Ballet and San Francisco Ballet, and a QuestBridge Scholar from Columbia University. He previously served as Founding Engineer at Respell (acquired by Salesforce in 2024) and published AI research at Stanford's Robotics and Embodied AI Lab.
Victor Perez
Víctor Pérez is the co-founder and CEO of Krea.ai, a San Francisco-based generative AI platform that has raised $83 million and grown to 20 million users. A Barcelona native who studied audiovisual systems engineering at UPF, Perez received the prestigious laCaixa Fellowship (a scholarship from the King of Spain) to pursue graduate studies at Cornell University — but spent just one day on campus before convincing his co-founder Diego Rodriguez to drop out and build Krea instead. A researcher whose work has appeared at NeurIPS and ICCV, and a graffiti artist at heart, Perez leads a company whose mission is to put creators in control of AI — not replace them with it.
James Evans
James Evans is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator and the co-founder and former CEO of Command AI (YC S20), a user-assistance platform he built with Richard Freling and Vinay Ayyala and sold to Amplitude in October 2024 for north of $45 million. A Princeton CS graduate who detoured through private equity at Bain Capital before going all-in on startups, Evans scaled Command AI to 25 million end-users across hundreds of enterprise clients before the acquisition. Now advising the next wave of YC founders, he brings rare firsthand experience from both sides of the table - founder and investor.
Giovanni Ahern
Giovanni Ahern is an Investing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms, where he focuses on growth-stage investments. A dual-degree MIT graduate in Mathematics and Computer Science with Economics, Ahern built his investment acumen through roles at Blackstone, Houlihan Lokey, and three years as a Private Equity Associate at Bain Capital specializing in healthcare and technology. Joining a16z in September 2025, he brings a quantitative rigor and cross-sector perspective to backing the next generation of market-defining technology companies.
Justin Kahl
Justin Kahl is an Investing Partner on the Growth team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he focuses on growth-stage software, enterprise AI, fintech, and consumer technology. A Stanford-trained engineer and economist who played varsity soccer, he cut his teeth investing in later-stage software and consumer internet deals at Bain Capital before joining a16z in 2021. At a16z, he has become a leading voice on enterprise platform dynamics, Gen AI adoption, and how software companies navigate down markets—co-authoring widely-cited research with colleagues Sarah Wang, David George, and Alex Immerman on topics ranging from the anatomy of enterprise platform companies to how 100 CIOs are deploying AI in 2025.
Santiago Rodriguez Lebrija
Santiago Rodriguez Lebrija is a Deal Partner on the Growth investing team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he focuses on fintech, consumer, and crypto technology companies. A Stanford chemical engineering graduate originally from Mexico City, he cut his teeth as an Investment Analyst at Stanford Management Company and a Business Analyst at PEMEX before joining Bain Capital's global private equity division. Since joining a16z in August 2022, he has co-led investments in companies like Kavak - Latin America's leading used-car marketplace reimagined around AI - and hyperexponential, a London-based insurtech modernizing how insurers price risk. He brings an unusual combination of deep operational instinct and cross-cultural fluency to growth-stage bets, with a particular eye for operationally complex businesses being rebuilt around AI.
Tom Morgan
Thomas W. Morgan is a 30-year private equity veteran who pioneered the GP stakes investing category when he founded Hycroft Capital in 2015, the first firm dedicated solely to minority, non-control investments in private equity management companies. His career arc spans First Boston, Bain Capital during its formative 1990s growth, and 15 years at New Mountain Capital (raising $15B+ AUM). After merging Hycroft into Magnetar Capital and co-founding Aviditi Advisors (acquired by Piper Sandler in 2024), he now manages Greylock Capital Partners, his family office with interests in franchise concepts, commercial real estate, and private investments, from Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Alexander Pack
Alexander Pack is a crypto venture capitalist who co-founded Hack VC and Dragonfly Capital, pioneering early-stage Web3 investments across the U.S. and Asia. A former Bain Capital Ventures director who launched their crypto practice, he's been the first institutional investor in three unicorns and has seeded hundreds of Web3 startups. Pack manages over $425 million in crypto-focused venture funds and co-founded Imperii Partners, a global crypto-native investment bank.