Vanessa Kruze is the founder and CEO of Kruze Consulting, a San Francisco-based accounting and finance firm exclusively serving venture-capital-backed startups. A CPA and Deloitte Tax alum, she launched Kruze in 2012 after working as a startup controller and spotting a gap in the market for specialized, tech-forward financial services for founders. Today, the firm has served 800+ startups that have collectively raised over $15 billion in VC funding, earned seven consecutive Inc 5000 honors, and is known in Silicon Valley as the go-to accounting partner for early- and growth-stage companies.
Isfandiyar 'Asfi' Shaheen is a serial entrepreneur and investment professional known for his work in global connectivity and financial modeling. After a successful career in Pakistan's industrial sector, he served as the first Entrepreneur in Residence at Facebook Connectivity, where he worked on innovative methods to deploy fiber optics. He is currently focused on the intersection of AI and financial analysis, building tools to empower modelers through code.