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Elizabeth Burstein
Elizabeth Burstein is the CEO and co-founder of Neura Health, a virtual neurology clinic she started in 2020 after a two-year fight with a trapped nerve exposed how broken specialist access is in the United States. A Stanford computer-science-and-philosophy grad who built product at LinkedIn, Blue Apron, Zocdoc and Maven Clinic before turning founder, she has grown Neura to serve tens of thousands of patients and raised $22M+ in venture funding, including a $11.4M Series A in 2025 led by the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women Venture Fund.
Nikola Mijic
Nikola (Nik) Mijic is the co-founder and CEO of Matik, a San Francisco-based SaaS platform that automates the creation of personalized, data-driven presentations and documents. Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia, he fled the Bosnian civil war as a toddler - spending years in Hungary and Germany before his family settled in Salt Lake City, Utah. After studying accounting and economics at Westminster College, he moved into customer success technology, building internal presentation tools at LinkedIn before co-founding Matik in 2019 with engineer Zak Stein. Matik has raised $26.1M from Menlo Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, grown to over $10.7M ARR, and counts Asana, SalesLoft, Greenhouse, and Glassdoor among its customers.
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.