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Jeffrey Finkle
Jeffrey Finkle is the CEO of The Arcview Group, the vertically integrated firm that has bankrolled and brokered the legal cannabis, hemp, and psychedelics industries for over a decade. A software entrepreneur turned venture investor since 1999, he co-founded the $115M Odeon Capital Partners during the dot-com peak, spent years as a fixture of New York's angel scene, and now runs Arcview's events, capital, ventures, consulting, and research arms with social equity written into the charter.
Luke Day
Luke Day is Co-founder and General Partner at MAGIC Fund, a $30M seed-stage venture firm built on the conviction that the best founders want money from people who've built things themselves. Focused on gaming, metaverse, and sports investments, Day came up through engineering recruiting at Discord and Roblox before co-founding one of the few truly decentralized VC funds - a 12-partner, multi-continent operation where each GP invests autonomously from their own domain expertise. MAGIC Fund's portfolio spans 250+ startups across 30+ countries with one unicorn (Retool) and a reported 5x return on its debut fund.
Jennifer Vancini
Jennifer Vancini is Co-Founder and General Partner at Mighty Capital, one of Silicon Valley's few woman-owned venture capital firms. With 20+ years in technology investments and M&A, she co-founded Mighty Capital in 2017 alongside SC Moatti, leveraging a network of 600,000+ product leaders to identify breakout B2B tech startups early. The firm's track record includes six IPOs in eight years - including early bets on Amplitude and Groq - and the April 2026 close of a $91M Fund III, triple its predecessor. Before VC, Vancini built a career spanning enterprise BD roles at Certicom, Symbian, Nokia, and Telefónica, culminating in a family investment office that returned 15x cash-on-cash before she co-founded Mighty Capital.
Nagraj Kashyap
Nagraj Kashyap is co-founder and General Partner of Touring Capital, a San Francisco-based venture firm that closed a $330 million Fund I in September 2025 focused on AI-powered SaaS companies at the early-growth stage. He brings 20+ years of venture capital experience, having previously founded Qualcomm Ventures (2003), launched M12 (Microsoft's venture arm, 2016), and served as Managing Partner at SoftBank Vision Fund II. His portfolio includes breakout companies such as Zoom, Waze (10x return, acquired by Google), Xiaomi, Cloudflare, Fitbit, Kahoot!, Livongo, and Outreach.
Samir Kumar
Samir Kumar is Co-Founder and General Partner at Touring Capital, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that closed its oversubscribed $330 million Fund I in September 2025 to back AI-driven software companies approaching product-market fit. Before co-founding Touring Capital in 2023 with Nagraj Kashyap and Priya Saiprasad, Samir spent years at Microsoft's M12 venture fund investing in AI, deep tech, and hardware-enabled software, and prior to that held senior roles at Qualcomm's corporate R&D division, Samsung, and Palm. A Cornell-trained mechanical engineer who grew up in New York after being born in New Delhi, Samir brings a rare blend of hands-on engineering, product management, and institutional investing experience to backing the next wave of AI-powered enterprise companies.
Stuart Peterson
Stuart Peterson is the Founder and Managing General Partner of ARTIS Ventures, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm he launched in 2001 that coined and trademarked the term 'TechBio.' A 2017 Forbes Midas List honoree, Peterson led early-stage investments in YouTube (acquired by Google) and StemCentrx (acquired by AbbVie for $10.2 billion - the largest-ever venture-backed life sciences acquisition), and has since focused ARTIS at the convergence of computer science and life science, closing a $200 million TechBio II Fund in December 2023 to back next-generation health and medicine companies deploying AI, machine learning, and deep learning to transform human health.
Katie Haun
Katie Haun is the founder and CEO of Haun Ventures, a $1.5 billion crypto and frontier technology venture firm she launched in 2022 after co-leading a16z Crypto. A former federal prosecutor who created the DOJ's first cryptocurrency task force, she is one of the most credible voices at the intersection of law, policy, and digital assets - a former skeptic turned crypto believer, converted by the very Silk Road case she was assigned to prosecute.
Semil Shah
Semil Shah is the Founding General Partner of Haystack, a seed-stage venture capital firm he started from scratch in 2013 with $1M and zero management fees. Through seven funds totaling over $200M, he has backed companies including DoorDash, HashiCorp, Figma, and Instacart at seed stage. He also serves as Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Named to the Forbes Midas Seed List four consecutive years (2022-2025), he built his career the hard way — through writing, blogging, and relentless deal-flow generation after being repeatedly turned down by top VC firms.
Harry Stebbings
Harry Stebbings is the British founder of 20VC, the world's largest venture capital media brand and a $800M+ AUM fund. Starting his podcast at 18 with $50 and zero industry contacts, he built The Twenty Minute VC into a 100M+ download juggernaut spanning 190 countries, then parlayed that audience into a real VC fund backed by MIT and unicorn founders. He dropped out of King's College London after four weeks, co-founded Stride.VC, then launched 20VC Fund - closing a $400M third fund in October 2024. Equal parts podcaster, investor, and ultramarathoner, Stebbings runs companies and 100-mile races with the same compulsive energy.