Samir Kaji is the co-founder and CEO of Allocate, a private markets platform that helps wealth advisors and family offices build and manage institutional-quality portfolios. Before founding Allocate, he spent about 22 years in venture banking at Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic Bank, where he advised more than 700 venture and private equity firms. He also hosts Venture Unlocked, a widely followed podcast and newsletter about how venture capital firms are built and scaled.
Ark is a Boston-based software company that builds a cloud platform for running private capital funds. Founded in 2017, it combines fund accounting, an investor portal, LP reporting, and fundraising tools into one system used by venture capital, private equity, fund-of-funds, and real estate managers as well as the fund administrators who service them. By 2026 the platform supported more than 500 GPs and administrators overseeing roughly $185 billion in assets. In July 2026, AngelList acquired Ark to fold its fund-administration software into AngelList's banking, payments, and cap-table infrastructure.
Allocate is a Palo Alto-based financial technology company building an intelligent operating system for private market investing. Its platform equips wealth advisory firms and institutional family offices with modern infrastructure to source, diligence, build, and manage private portfolios - spanning venture capital, private equity, and private credit - through a single interface. Founded in 2021 by longtime venture bankers Samir Kaji and Hana Yang, Allocate automates subscriptions, capital flows, and portfolio operations, and has scaled to billions of dollars on platform serving over 1,200 advisory firms and family offices.
Revere builds cloud software that helps allocators in private markets manage their portfolios without drowning in spreadsheets and PDFs. Its platform, Revere ONE, ingests fund data automatically, standardizes it across venture capital, private equity, real estate, private credit, and hedge funds, and surfaces performance and risk in interactive dashboards. Founded in 2020 by former AngelList institutional-capital lead Eric Woo and Chris Shen, Revere serves family offices, fund-of-funds, corporate venture groups, and other sophisticated allocators.
Eric Woo is the co-founder and CEO of Revere, a data platform that helps institutional allocators evaluate and manage emerging venture funds and other private-market assets. A UC Berkeley-trained mechanical engineer turned CFA charterholder, he spent more than 16 years as a limited partner before founding Revere - building emerging-manager programs at Top Tier Capital and Northgate Capital, then leading Institutional Capital at AngelList. He has helped allocate over $160 million into venture funds and co-investments and is widely regarded as a thought leader in the emerging-manager ecosystem, working to make venture underwriting less mystical and more measurable.
Titanbay is a London-based private markets infrastructure provider that helps private banks, wealth managers and fund managers launch, distribute and operate private market funds. Its API-first platform handles fund structuring, investor onboarding, capital flows, compliance and reporting end-to-end, opening up private equity, venture capital and other alternatives that were historically reserved for large institutions. Backed by Motive Partners, abrdn and FNZ, the company surpassed $1bn in assets under management and was named to the 2025 WealthTech100.
Carolina Huaranca Mendoza is co-founder and General Partner of First Close Partners, a fund-of-funds backing venture firms led by underrepresented managers. She got her start in M&A banking, built Girls Who Code's Clubs program from zero, became a Principal at Kapor Capital where she designed the firm's first LP strategy for diverse emerging managers, and now writes checks into 100+ funds worldwide.

Fred Wang is a General Partner at Adams Street Partners, where he leads growth equity investments in infrastructure software — with a sharp focus on cybersecurity, data/AI infrastructure, and enterprise security. With over 30 years in technology and venture capital, he joined Adams Street in 2017 after 18 years as a General Partner at Trinity Ventures. Earlier in his career, he was one of the first engineers and first product manager at Intuit. He holds degrees from Stanford (BS Electrical Engineering, MS Industrial Engineering) and an MBA from Harvard Business School. His active portfolio includes Arctic Wolf Networks, Cyberhaven, Arize AI, and Axonius.
Sean Engel is General Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Top Tier Capital Partners (TTCP), a San Francisco-based venture capital firm with $8.1 billion in regulatory assets under management. A UC Berkeley alum and former varsity rower, Engel joined TTCP's predecessor Paul Capital in 2010 and has spent over 15 years building expertise in LP secondary transactions, direct co-investments, and fund of funds strategies. He co-led the firm's landmark $925M capital raise in 2022 - the Venture Velocity Fund 4 - which included a dedicated $421M climate tech separate account. Engel oversees a global investment team, serves on the Investment Committee, and is known for a data-driven, relationship-first approach to identifying high-growth venture-backed companies across pre-seed through Series B.

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.

Laurence 'Lo' Toney is the Founding Managing Partner of Plexo Capital, a San Francisco-based institutional VC firm he incubated at GV (Google Ventures) and spun out independently in 2018. Plexo's distinctive 'full stack' model invests across three layers - LP stakes in emerging diverse fund managers, direct investments in companies sourced through those networks, and equity stakes in the GP management entities themselves. After senior operating roles at Nike, eBay, and Zynga (where he ran Zynga Poker to $250M in annual bookings), Toney moved into VC via Comcast Ventures and GV before building Plexo Capital's $42.5M Fund I with backers including Alphabet, Intel Capital, and the Ford Foundation. Named to Forbes BLK 50: Money Masters 2026, he has championed diverse fund managers as alpha generators long before it became conventional wisdom.