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Aliisa Rosenthal
Aliisa Rosenthal is a General Partner at Acrew Capital and the firm's first GP hire since founding in 2019. She was the first commercial leader at OpenAI, where she scaled enterprise revenue from roughly $10M to roughly $10B and built ChatGPT Enterprise's go-to-market motion. She invests in AI-native companies reshaping enterprise software.
Evan Stites-Clayton
Evan Stites-Clayton is a General Partner and CTO at HF0, a San Francisco-based residency and venture fund that backs repeat technical founders building AI-native startups. He previously co-founded Teespring with Walker Williams at Brown University in 2011, scaling it from a $3,000 weekend experiment to over $1 billion in cumulative sales and $65 million raised from Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures before going through Y Combinator's W13 batch. Named to Forbes 30 Under 30, he joined HF0 in 2022 to help the next generation of builders compress the gap between idea and scale.
Alex Nichols
Alex Nichols is a General Partner at CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth fund. He invests in companies reinventing large markets through novel economic or distribution models, then compounding through scale - a thesis carved out across deals like Stripe, Duolingo, Whatnot, Rippling, UiPath, Waymo, Odoo and Zach Dell's Base Power. Promoted to GP in January 2026 alongside Jill Chase, the first time CapitalG named two GPs at once since the firm's 2013 founding.
Alfred Chuang
Alfred Chuang is the General Partner of Race Capital, a San Francisco venture firm investing in Web2 and Web3 infrastructure. Before becoming a VC, he co-founded BEA Systems in 1995 and led it as CEO until Oracle bought it in 2008 for $8.6 billion. Andreessen Horowitz has called him the Silicon Valley CEO's CEO.
Andre Bliznyuk
Andre Bliznyuk is a General Partner at Runa Capital, where he leads North American investments in software for regulated industries: fintech, edtech, and digital health. Before VC, he spent a decade in capital markets at Goldman Sachs and UBS, running 20+ IPOs. He has backed Brainly, Mambu, Lendio, Smava, and Zopa, with exits at Cloudflare, Goldman Sachs, and Colt Telecom.
Anshu Agarwal
Anshu Agarwal is a General Partner at Converge, the Cambridge-based B2B tech venture firm, where she opened the firm's Silicon Valley office in 2023. A five-time operator with four enterprise-software exits to Akamai, Juniper, HP and Citrix, she co-founded and ran serverless pioneer Nimbella through its 2021 acquisition by DigitalOcean before crossing the table to back the next generation of B2B founders.
Arpan Shah
Arpan Shah is a General Partner at Spark Capital in San Francisco, where he leads early-stage investments in AI, fintech, and data infrastructure. A Stanford-trained engineer from Kolkata, he was on the founding team at Robinhood, later founded Flannel (acquired by Plaid in 2021), and was a partner at Pear VC and a Sequoia Scout before joining Spark in November 2024.
Arsham Memarzadeh
Arsham Memarzadeh is a General Partner at Meritech Capital in Palo Alto, where he leads enterprise software and infrastructure growth investments. He arrived in early 2025 after six years at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he helped lead the growth practice and backed Wiz, Chainguard, Verkada, ClickUp, Axonius, Personio, Enable, Payhawk, and Spiff.
Arthur Kaneko
Arthur Kaneko is Co-Founder and General Partner of Coreline Ventures, a boutique early-stage firm investing across the US, Japan and other key markets. He spent a decade running RealScout, a real estate technology company, after starting his career as an investor at DCM Ventures and a product manager at Togetherville. Coreline's pitch is restraint: a small number of high-conviction bets and a decade-plus commitment to each founder.
Asher Siddiqui
Asher Siddiqui is a General Partner at Sukna Ventures, a Riyadh-based early-stage venture fund backing software and data-infrastructure startups across MENA. He spent a decade running global M&A and corporate venture at Etisalat (around $15bn in deals), then joined 500 Startups as a partner and investment committee member before settling into the GP role at Sukna. He advises a constellation of funds from Palo Alto to Pakistan and splits time between the San Francisco Bay Area, Dubai, and Riyadh.
Augustin Sayer
Augustin Sayer is co-founder and General Partner at OVNI Capital, a Paris- and San Francisco-based seed fund backing European deep-tech founders building global companies. Before OVNI, he invested 20+ early-stage rounds at Newfund (including FairMoney and Umiami), ran a retail company in Mexico, and started his finance career at Lazard Frères M&A in New York.
Aymerik Renard
Aymerik Renard is a General Partner at HCVC (formerly Hardware Club), a community-driven venture firm investing in hardtech startups out of San Francisco and Paris. With more than two decades in venture capital - including stints at Innovacom, Orange, PCH International, SanDisk and Western Digital Capital - he backs founders working on robotics, space, biotech, defense and climate technology in Europe and North America.
Barmak Meftah
Barmak Meftah is co-founder and general partner of Ballistic Ventures, a cybersecurity-focused venture firm. Previously CEO of AlienVault and president of AT&T Cybersecurity after AT&T acquired AlienVault, he has spent more than two decades building and funding security companies, from Fortify Software's early days to today's wave of AI-era security startups.
Bobba Venkatadri
Bobba Venkatadri is a General Partner at Ventureast and founder of the DigiLife fund, investing in life sciences and healthcare across India and the US. A pharmacist by training with four decades of operating experience at companies like Warner Lambert, Centocor, Molecular Biosystems, and Aradigm, he sits on the boards of multiple portfolio companies and quietly runs a soybean farm on the side.
Brendan Bulik-Sullivan
Brendan Bulik-Sullivan is a General Partner at GV (Google Ventures) backing biotech and therapeutics companies from the San Francisco office. He arrived at venture capital by a back door familiar to almost no one: a Ph.D. in statistical genetics, an authorship on the LD Score Regression method that reshaped how human geneticists read GWAS data, and a stint designing the deep-learning neoantigen models at Gritstone Oncology. He now sits on the boards of Comanche Biopharma, Santa Ana Bio, Ventus Therapeutics, and Areteia Therapeutics.
Brent Fulfer
Brent Fulfer is the Co-Founder and General Partner of TBV, an early-stage Web3 venture firm built around deal flow, advisory, and the now-infamous 'The Best Event' party series. He has helped raise over $110M for early-stage startups across deep tech and crypto, and previously ran investor relations at Asymmetry Ventures and the venture program at Blockchain Founders Fund.
Brian Cho
Brian Cho is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Patron, a San Francisco seed-stage venture firm investing at the intersection of games, consumer software, and emerging technology. A former founding member of Andreessen Horowitz's investment team and the long-time head of corporate development, ventures, and M&A at Riot Games, Cho launched Patron in 2021 with Jason Yeh and closed a $100M Fund II in September 2024.
Brittany Walker
Brittany Walker is a General Partner at CRV in San Francisco who writes first checks to technical founders in AI, infrastructure software, and frontier technology. She joined CRV in 2020, was promoted to General Partner in 2024, and co-founded The Table, a community for women building in enterprise.
Carlotta Siniscalco
Carlotta 'Lotti' Siniscalco is a General Partner at Emergence Capital in San Francisco, the first woman partner in the firm's two-decade history. She backs early-stage enterprise software and fintech founders, with board roles at Federato, Whistic, and High Alpha. Milanese by birth, Wharton and Stanford by training, she sent cold emails to every AIFI member as a teenager to break into venture and hasn't slowed since.
Chad Byers
Chad Byers is co-founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures, a San Francisco seed-stage firm he started in 2013 with Leo Polovets and Seth Berman. He wrote one of the first institutional checks into Robinhood at age 26 - a $250k bet that grew past $400M - and has led Susa into Flexport, Andela, Newfront, Mux, Stord and Viz. In March 2025, Susa closed its fifth fund at $175M. He focuses on marketplaces, fintech, healthcare and logistics, and describes himself as a quiet introvert in a loud business.
Chelsea Stoner
Chelsea Stoner is a General Partner at Battery Ventures who hunts down vertically focused software companies and healthcare-IT operators across North America. She joined Battery in 2006 and has helped scale Avalara, Glassdoor, Guidewire, Marketo, RealPage and WebPT, among others. Recognized on Forbes Midas Hot Prospects and GrowthCap's Top 25 Healthcare Investors.
Christopher Gottschalk
Christopher Gottschalk is a General Partner at Mouro Capital, a $400M fintech-focused venture capital firm headquartered in London and spun out of Banco Santander. Based in San Francisco, he anchors the firm's U.S. and Silicon Valley presence, bringing over 16 years of experience spanning investment banking at Cowen and Company, operations at Intel, early-stage investing at Menlo Ventures, and nearly seven years as a Principal at Blumberg Capital. At Mouro, he takes board seats at flagship portfolio companies including Upgrade, Trulioo, and Blueprint, applying a long-duration, multi-stage partnership model to back category-defining fintechs from seed through Series B and beyond.
Davis Treybig
Davis Treybig is General Partner at Innovation Endeavors, a deep tech venture firm in Palo Alto co-founded by Eric Schmidt. After graduating valedictorian from Duke's engineering school and spending three years as a Product Manager at Google working on Chrome, Google Assistant, and Pixel, he joined Innovation Endeavors and rose from Associate to General Partner in six years. His investment focus spans software and computing infrastructure, AI/ML tools, developer tooling, cybersecurity, and data systems. A prolific writer on Substack and Medium, he is known for research-driven due diligence - spending months in a space before writing a check - and for being the first call many founders make when sparring a new idea.
Daisy Cai
Daisy Cai is a General Partner at B Capital, the multi-stage venture firm co-founded by Eduardo Saverin. With nearly two decades of investment experience spanning Silicon Valley, Hong Kong, and global markets, she heads B Capital's China expansion and leads investments in deep tech, AI, robotics, autonomous systems, clean energy, and space technology. Before B Capital, she was a Partner at SoftBank Vision Fund and Managing Partner of Baidu Capital and Baidu Ventures. She holds a B.S. from Tsinghua University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from USC, and an MBA from Columbia Business School - and has six U.S. patents in semiconductor chip design.
Dana Oshiro
Dana Oshiro is General Partner at Heavybit, San Francisco's specialist fund for developer-first and cloud infrastructure startups. She joined in 2014 as the firm's original Operating Partner and has since helped launch 60+ developer products, led early positioning for companies like Snyk, LaunchDarkly, Netlify, CircleCI, and PagerDuty, and co-founded the DevGuild conference series. Before tech, she worked in public health and political strategy in Canada, including campaigns to establish North America's first safe injection site. Her investment sweet spot is $1.5M at pre-seed to Series A, backing technical founders building category-defining enterprise infrastructure.
Daniel Karp
Daniel Karp is General Partner at Cervin Ventures, a Palo Alto-based early-stage VC firm with $162M in its latest fund. A veteran of Cisco's corporate venture arm - where his portfolio generated over $2.5B in exits including Habana Labs (acquired by Intel for $2B) and GuardiCore - Karp brings a rare combination of chip engineering roots, Microsoft Azure product strategy, Israeli IDF intelligence experience, and nearly a decade of corporate M&A deal-making to his current focus on enterprise infrastructure, DevOps, cybersecurity, and AI-native startups.
Dave Zilberman
Dave Zilberman is a General Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, where he focuses on early-to-late-stage investments in enterprise software, SaaS, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, data, and media. With over 20 years building companies as operator, advisor, and investor, he spent 15 years at Comcast Ventures before joining Norwest in 2020. His portfolio includes landmark wins like Slack (acquired by Salesforce) and DocuSign (Nasdaq: DOCU), and his current bets span AI infrastructure plays like LlamaIndex and security companies like Orion Security.
David Cheng
David Cheng is a General Partner at Costanoa Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm in Palo Alto focused on data, AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and fintech. With over a decade of investing experience - including nine years at DCM Ventures, where he became the youngest VP in the firm's 30-year history - Cheng has backed breakout companies including EvenUp (now valued at $2B+) and Brigit (acquired for up to $460M). A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and Wharton graduate, he is also co-founder of Coreline Ventures and publishes the 'Earned Intuition' newsletter on Substack, sharing lessons from a decade of early-stage investing.
Dharmesh Thakker
Dharmesh Thakker is a General Partner at Battery Ventures, one of the world's longest-running technology venture capital firms, where he leads investments in infrastructure software, AI-powered applications, cloud/DevOps, data, security, and open source. An immigrant from India turned engineer turned VC, he joined Battery in 2015 after leading Intel Capital's global cloud and big-data practice. He holds a BS in electrical engineering from UT Austin and an MBA from Wharton. His portfolio spans category-defining companies including Databricks, Postman, Gong, ClickHouse, and Weaviate, with notable exits including Confluent (IPO), JFrog (IPO), and Sumo Logic (IPO). He hosts the 'Billion-Dollar B2B' podcast, writes for TechCrunch and Forbes, and was named to the Forbes Midas Brink list in 2016.
Dror Nahumi
Dror Nahumi is a General Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, a multi-stage global VC firm managing $15.5 billion in assets. Based in Menlo Park, California, he leads Norwest's Israeli investment portfolio - a practice he helped build since the firm established its Israel presence in 2009. A former Bell Labs research engineer who developed the RCELP speech coder (now the CDMA standard for North American cellular), Nahumi transitioned from deep tech to entrepreneurship before landing in venture capital in 2010. He has backed companies that have been acquired by Microsoft, Google, EMC, and Symantec, and has seeded unicorns including Gong.io, VAST Data, and Weka.