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Eric Norman
Eric Norman is a General Partner at Pioneer Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that pools resources from 500+ Y Combinator alumni to back top-performing YC startups. A former hardware founder himself - he built and led Cinder Precision Cooker through Y Combinator - Norman brings firsthand operator experience to his investing, with recent portfolio activity in AI identity, healthcare AI, and enterprise tooling.
Brett Browman
Brett Browman is a Growth Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures, bringing a hands-on, ER-doctor approach to diagnosing and scaling portfolio companies. A veteran of Silicon Valley's most storied growth stories - first growth hire at both Square and Opendoor - he spent seven years as Operating Partner at Andreessen Horowitz advising companies like ElevenLabs, Character.ai, and Luma.ai before joining Khosla in 2024. Known for getting in the trenches as a fractional growth leader, Browman has helped shape the go-to-market playbooks of some of the fastest-growing startups in tech history.
Karina Baze
Karina Baze (El-Baze) is an Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms, where she works at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and commercial reality. A Stanford-trained operator with a career arc running from MuleSoft's scrappy East Division founding days through IPO and Salesforce acquisition, to leading GTM at AI-native companies Instabase and Hebbia, Karina brings rare depth to helping portfolio founders build revenue engines that actually work. Recognized as one of 100 Women in AI in 2025, she specializes in translating deep tech into customer outcomes - a skill set that is quietly reshaping how Khosla's portfolio companies go to market.
Marina Kusserow
Marina Kusserow is an Operating Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) on the Bio+Health team, where she leads healthcare business development strategy across payers, providers, and large employers. A health policy graduate who cut her teeth at Oxeon Partners, then became Chief of Staff for Walmart Health's clinical delivery team, then tackled M&A at Unite Us, Marina now serves as connective tissue between a16z's portfolio companies and the broader healthcare ecosystem. She splits her time between New York City and Nashville, Tennessee.
Ryan Batra
Ryan Batra is the VP, Talent Partner at Khosla Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's most influential deep-tech venture firms. A career talent architect with over a decade in hypergrowth tech, he spent six years building DoorDash's technical and executive recruiting machine through multiple phases of explosive expansion, then led recruiting at Lime and OpenStore before landing at Khosla. Now he helps founders across KV's portfolio - spanning AI, biotech, space, and climate - hire the engineers, researchers, and leaders who make bold ideas real. He's placed 500+ engineers and leaders. His philosophy: talent is one of the most powerful forms of leverage a founder has.
Ryan Scott
Ryan Scott is an Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he helps portfolio companies build durable, compounding growth. He made his name as Etsy's first-ever CMO and Head of International - scaling GMV from $3B to $14B, tripling active users, and expanding the brand to 220 countries while earning AdAge Brand of the Year in 2020. Before Etsy, he drove Grubhub Seamless from $100M to $6B in GMV and through its IPO. A Forbes Entrepreneurial CMO 50 honoree with seats on Google's Retail Advisory Council and Meta's Leadership Council, Scott brings two decades of consumer marketing, e-commerce, and business leadership to the deepest end of deep tech.