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The VC Firm Selling Founders Something Rarer Than Money: A Shortcut to the Right Room
Notable Capital inherited a 25-year investing record, then made a sharper promise: the check is only the opening move. Its real pitch is access - to hires, buyers, operators, and the hard-won pattern recognition that can move a young company faster.
The $100 Million Fund That Thinks Venture Capital Needs a Workshop
Baukunst writes the first check, then pulls up a workbench. Its experiment is to make a venture fund behave more like a living studio - one where founders, engineers, designers and operators build in public with one another.
The Alabama Studio That Builds Companies From Problems, Not Pitch Decks
Shegun Otulana already had his billion-dollar exit. Then he stayed in Birmingham to build a factory for the next ones.
Alicia Secor
After three decades turning complex science into operating companies, Alicia Secor has taken on a new translation problem: helping Paratus turn lessons from evolution into a disciplined pipeline of medicines.
Jeb Miller
Jeb Miller is a General Partner at Icon Ventures, a Palo Alto-based early-stage venture capital firm. With over 25 years of experience in technology investing, he has backed more than 50 startups across AI, cybersecurity, digital health, and enterprise SaaS. Before Icon Ventures, he built corporate venture programs at Morgan Stanley Technology Ventures, held principal roles at Worldview Technology Partners and ComVentures, and consulted for the US Department of Defense's Rapid Reaction Technology Office. He holds a BA in Economics from Harvard College (graduated summa cum laude) and was a collegiate water polo athlete. His portfolio includes notable exits like FireEye (IPO), MoPub (acquired by Twitter), and Quizlet, with Icon Ventures tracking 22+ exits representing over $21 billion in combined market value.
Peter Day
Peter Day is a General Partner at super{set}, San Francisco's AI-native startup studio and venture fund, where he co-builds data and AI companies from day one. A machine learning PhD from the University of Liverpool who spent 12 years in quantitative finance before pivoting to Silicon Valley, Peter served as Chief Product and Technology Officer at Quantcast for nearly seven years, guiding the company's real-time ML platform used by marketers and publishers globally. He brings a rare combination of deep technical credibility — hands-on coding, ML research, financial engineering — and operational leadership at scale to the companies he helps found and grow at super{set}.
Corinne Riley
Corinne Riley is a Partner at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms, where she focuses on early-stage B2B enterprise software, data infrastructure, and AI companies. Before joining Greylock, she worked at Morgan Stanley on IPOs for Uber, Zoom, and Palantir. At Greylock she launched both the Scout Program - growing it to 35 scouts investing in 100+ startups - and the Edge Program, a founder-support initiative that provides pre-idea and pre-seed founders with resources and mentorship without taking upfront equity. She is known for her go-to-market expertise and her hands-on approach to helping founders land their first enterprise customers.
Tina Ferguson
Tina Ferguson is a People Practices Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she has helped shape the human infrastructure of the venture capital world since 2012. She was the first person hired to build and scale the People Practices function at a16z, advising portfolio founders across consumer, web3, fintech, and gaming on organization design, DEI, executive team integration, talent management, and compensation strategy. With prior stints at Cisco Systems, Morgan Stanley, Opsware, and Trend Micro, she brings a rare blend of enterprise rigor and startup agility to one of the most influential VC firms in the world.