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Benjamin Orthlieb
Benjamin (Ben) Orthlieb is co-founder and General Partner of Blue Moon VC, an AI-native seed fund (formerly 2.12 Angels / 2|Twelve) based in San Francisco. He spent over a decade at LinkedIn, most recently as VP and Head of Corporate Development for M&A and Investments, before turning a side scout practice with Emergence Capital into a quantitative seed firm that screens roughly 9,000 founding teams a year and graduates portfolio companies to Series A at nearly triple the market rate.
Steve Reale
Steve Reale is General Partner & CFO at Ulu Ventures, a Palo Alto-based seed-stage venture firm with $400M+ AUM known for backing diverse founders using a rigorous, data-driven decision analysis framework. A Kauffman Fellow (Class 14) with a CFA designation and 25+ years of Silicon Valley experience spanning equity research, early-stage startups, and venture investing, Reale brings an unusually analytical lens to seed-stage bets - applying probability-weighted risk modeling borrowed from pharmaceutical R&D and oil & gas exploration to evaluate founders and markets. His portfolio work spans 10 unicorns including Guild Education, BetterUp, and Figure.