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Petra Greenbaum Is Teaching Private Equity to Speak Human
After three decades of making complicated businesses easier to understand, Petra Greenbaum has arrived at Lynx Equity with a practical brief: turn patient ownership into a story that owners, investors and operating teams can trust.
Spark Capital Bet on Products Before They Became Markets
The venture firm behind Twitter, Tumblr, Oculus and Anthropic built its reputation by treating taste as diligence and patience as a product. Twenty-one years in, its dog logo still says more about the strategy than a spreadsheet does.
Nobody Studios Wants to Make Startups Feel Less Like Lightning Strikes - and More Like a Production Line
The California venture studio is trying to turn company creation into a repeatable discipline. Its wager is that AI, a distributed crowd and ruthless early validation can make the startup lottery a little less random.
The Firm That Turned One Man's Duty-Free Fortune Into a $118 Billion Growth Machine
It began as one billionaire's quiet family office. Today General Atlantic writes some of the biggest checks in private markets - and it still calls itself a partner, not a boss.
The Firm That Buys Boring Businesses and Sends an Operator to Run Them
Liberty Partners backs the people who buy small companies and stay to run them. In healthcare, B2B services and financial services, its bet is that owners who fix boilers and read board decks build more durable businesses than spreadsheets alone.
The Firm That Bet Against the Buyout Playbook - and Ran It 40 Years
For four decades, a Beverly Hills firm has invested in middle-market companies by lending and owning at the same time. In July 2025 it closed its seventh flagship fund at over $3.6 billion - proof the contrarian model still sells.
The Statehouse That Learned to Pick Winners
For 35 years, Connecticut has run a venture fund out of the statehouse. In fiscal 2026 it returned a record $66.5 million - proof that a government can, occasionally, invest like a Sand Hill Road firm.
The Fund That Never Sells: How Tide Rock Turned 21 Boring Businesses Into a $1 Billion Machine
Most private equity firms rent companies for five years and flip them. Tide Rock buys them with cash, keeps them forever, and mails owners a check every quarter. It is a quieter idea - and it has compounded into more than a billion dollars of buying power.
The Firm That Bets on the Toolmakers, Not the Cure
For nearly four decades, Ampersand Capital Partners has skipped the lottery of drug discovery and quietly backed the companies that make the drug discovery possible. In May 2026 it closed a $1.5 billion fund in a single day.
The Firm That Bets on Companies That Already Work
For 40 years, Summit Partners has looked for founders who already found something that works - then handed them capital and a playbook to make it bigger. The results include Uber, McAfee, Klaviyo, and $9.5 billion of fresh dry powder.
Wind Point Hires the CEO First. Then It Goes Shopping for a Company.
For 42 years the Chicago firm has run the buyout playbook in reverse - recruiting a billion-dollar operator before it writes a check. In July it closed a $3.2 billion fund to keep doing it.
The Private Equity Firm That Grew Out of a Turnaround Shop
Born from one of the world's best-known restructuring firms, A&M Capital bets that operators, not just financiers, make the better owners of mid-sized companies.
The Quiet Compounders of Park Avenue
For 40-plus years, Harvest Partners has bought unglamorous middle-market companies and held them long enough to matter. Here is how a relationship-first shop on Park Avenue turned patience into a $20-billion franchise.
The Pritzkers Built Hyatt and Marmon. Now They Buy the Companies Nobody Will Sell to a Fund.
Tony Pritzker turned a family fortune built on Hyatt and the Marmon Group into a private equity firm that sells patience - and just raised $3.4 billion on the promise it will not rush the exit.
The Venture Fund With an Admissions Requirement: You Had to Go to Oxford
A Palo Alto fund turned an alumni network into an asset class - if your startup wants in, someone in the founding story has to have walked through an Oxford quad.
The Family Office That Would Rather Run the Company Than Just Fund It
Rudy Larsen skipped college, started a lawn-care crew in 2006, and turned it into a Utah family office that now buys, builds, and runs a portfolio of service and tech companies. The pitch is unusual for money managers: they would rather be in the truck than in the boardroom.
The Fund That Bet the House on the Future
SoftBank Investment Advisers manages the biggest technology funds the world has ever seen. After a decade of writing nine-figure checks into startups, it is now pointing that firepower at one thing: the full stack of artificial intelligence.
From the Grocery Aisle to the Cap Table
Justin Dye grew Albertsons by tens of billions. Now his Boca Raton firm buys seafood distributors, RV power tech and cannabis lenders - and runs each one like an operator, not a spreadsheet.
Stacy D'Amico
Stacy D'Amico is an Operating Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she leads a16z Apex - the firm's CEO partnership platform connecting Fortune 1000 leaders with a16z's growth-stage portfolio - and the Growth Advisory Platform helping portfolio companies scale market impact. A Silicon Valley native with 10 years at Gartner under her belt, she brings a rare blend of enterprise go-to-market expertise and institutional venture know-how to the operators and founders she serves.
Glen Evans
Glen Evans is Partner of Core Talent at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's premier venture capital firms. A veteran recruiter who built Facebook's engineering recruiting team from scratch and served as Slack's first Head of Global Recruiting, Evans now helps Greylock's portfolio companies build world-class teams. He advises founders on hiring strategy, recruiting operations, compensation benchmarks, and talent pipelines - translating the hard-won lessons of hyper-growth into practical playbooks for startups.
Holly Rose Faith
Holly Rose Faith is the Executive Talent Partner at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms. Specializing in C-suite, VP-level, and board placements for Greylock's portfolio companies, she has placed top executives at Roblox, Nextdoor, Databricks, Abnormal AI, Gem, PayJoy, Snorkel, Casper, and Transfix. With roughly eight years in VC talent roles spanning Khosla Ventures, NEA, and now Greylock, Faith brings a founder-first philosophy that goes beyond transactional recruiting — coaching founders on hiring strategy, building interview frameworks, and staying involved through references, compensation, and the close.
Kelly Kinnard
Kelly Kinnard is Operating Partner and Head of Talent at Khosla Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms. She leads the talent function across 500+ portfolio companies, advising founders and CEOs on how to recruit and retain exceptional leaders. With a career that spans elite retained search firms, Oracle's cloud transformation, and Battery Ventures before landing at Khosla, Kelly has helped shape the executive teams driving some of tech's most ambitious bets. She is known for treating recruiting like relationship-building - equal parts strategy, empathy, and persistence.
Matt Oberhardt
Matt Oberhardt is a Partner on the Talent Network team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he has led executive hiring and talent strategy since 2012. Armed with a BS in Chemical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Wharton, he spent six years at Korn/Ferry International before joining a16z to help portfolio founders recruit and retain world-class C-suite talent. Beyond executive search, he is a board member of The COMMIT Foundation and champions the transition of military veterans into technology careers, partnering with organizations like BreakLine, Honor Foundation, and shift.org. He lives in Truckee, California (near Lake Tahoe), shares his home with a pair of golden retrievers, and is a devoted - if historically pained - Philadelphia sports fan.
Samantha Walter
Samantha Walter is a Healthcare Partner on the Bio + Health team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she helps portfolio companies grow by building strategic partnerships across the care delivery ecosystem - payors, providers, employers, and retail. A University of Wisconsin-Madison finance graduate originally from Minneapolis, she brings deep operational credibility to the VC world: before joining a16z, she built a Direct Contracting Entity at Carelon (then CareMore/Aspire under Anthem/Elevance) in 2020, drove customer success at Quartet Health, and cut her teeth as a healthcare revenue cycle consultant at Huron Consulting Group in New York City. She lives and works in NYC, bridging Silicon Valley capital with real-world healthcare infrastructure.
Shannon Bendall
Shannon Bendall is the Marketing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she builds marketing programs for the firm's Venture Fund and serves as a communications and brand advisor to portfolio companies at every stage. Before a16z, she was the second communications hire at Snap, shepherding the company through its advertising platform launch, the Discover content hub, and augmented reality Lenses - all while the headcount ballooned from 100 to thousands and the company went public. She is based in Los Angeles, having relocated from the East Coast over a decade ago.
Stephanie Doppelt
Stephanie Doppelt is Partner of Executive Talent at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms. She brings two decades of recruiting expertise spanning elite executive search firms - Korn Ferry, Spencer Stuart, and Heidrick & Struggles - and six years as Pinterest's first business recruiter, where she built hiring infrastructure from the ground up. At a16z, she helps portfolio companies find and place senior leadership talent, authoring practical guides on hiring CROs, CMOs, and Chief Customer Officers. She holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and is known for her mentorship of transitioning military veterans.
Suzanne Holloway
Suzanne Holloway is the Operating Partner for Go-to-Market at Kleiner Perkins, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms. A hands-on marketing leader who helped Miro scale from pre-Series A to a $17.5 billion valuation, she now advises Kleiner Perkins portfolio companies on building marketing strategies and high-performing teams. With deep roots in early-stage B2B startups - from Greenhouse Software to Zugata (acquired by Culture Amp) - Holloway brings rare operational credibility to a firm better known for writing checks than rolling up sleeves.
Sundeep Peechu
Sundeep Peechu is a Managing Partner and founding member of Felicis Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's most consistent early-stage VC firms. A former IIT Madras engineer who went through Intel before pivoting to venture capital, he has backed transformational companies including Plaid, Canva, Notion, Cruise, Runway, and Mercor. Known for a decade-plus holding philosophy, hands-on founder support, and a particular obsession with AI and health tech, he has helped guide Felicis from a $41M debut fund in 2010 to a $900M Fund X in 2025.