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Alvaro Morales
Alvaro Morales is the co-founder and CEO of Orb, the flexible billing engine behind companies like Vercel, Perplexity and Replit. Raised in Lima, Peru and trained as a computer scientist at MIT, he built products at Yahoo, Palantir and spent five years as an engineering leader at Asana, where he watched pricing changes that should have taken minutes drag on for months. In 2021 he and CTO Kshitij Grover founded Orb to let companies ship pricing as fast as they ship product. In June 2026, payments giant Adyen agreed to acquire Orb for $335 million.
Taylor Lint
Taylor Lint is the founder and CEO of Swantide, a San Francisco company building an AI infrastructure layer for Salesforce and the broader go-to-market tech stack. An engineer by training, she led the launch of LinkedIn's Talent Insights product and ran engineering and product at Replica, the analytics company spun out of Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, before starting Swantide in 2020. Her company raised a $7M seed round led by Menlo Ventures and now powers Salesforce work for fast-growing software companies and large service partners like Perficient.
Misbah Uraizee
Misbah Uraizee is the co-founder and CEO of Nectar Social, the Palo Alto agentic operating system that runs brand conversations in DMs, comments and group chats at machine scale. A Yale biotech grad who spent a decade building product at Microsoft, Meta and Twitter - leading News Feed and creator monetization for billions of users - she left Meta in 2023 with her sister Farah to build Nectar. The company exited stealth in 2025 and raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures' Anthropic-backed Anthology Fund in May 2026, powering more than 10 million conversations a week for brands like e.l.f. Beauty, Figma and Liquid Death.
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.
Sandeep Bhadra
Sandeep Bhadra is a General Partner at Vertex Ventures US, a $150M early-stage fund focused on B2B software, cloud infrastructure, and developer tools. A Ph.D. engineer turned venture capitalist, he joined Vertex in 2017 as a founding team member after stints at Menlo Ventures and Cisco's corporate development. He's known for concentrated, high-conviction bets - typically 1-2 new investments per year - in companies like Hasura, Docker, Tulip Interfaces, and Gitpod. His background spans semiconductor engineering at Texas Instruments, $425M in cloud M&A at Cisco, and founding-team work that contributed to the creation of Barefoot Networks (later acquired by Intel). He grew up in India, where watching mobile telephony disrupt landline bureaucracy first showed him how software could leapfrog legacy systems.
Shervin Pishevar
Shervin Pishevar is an Iranian-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and super angel investor known for early-stage investments in Uber, Airbnb, and over 200 startups. A former managing director at Menlo Ventures and co-founder of Sherpa Capital, he has achieved 93 exits in his 27-year tech career and averaged 73x returns on investments. Co-founder and former executive chairman of Hyperloop One, Pishevar championed Elon Musk's vision for high-speed transportation. Currently, he runs the Edison Fund and serves as chairman of Telly, continuing to shape the future of technology and innovation. His journey from an immigrant family that arrived with $35 to becoming a Forbes Midas List investor for four consecutive years exemplifies the American Dream.