Viren Tellis is the Co-Founder and CEO of Uthana, a generative AI platform for 3D character animation backed by A16Z Speedrun and IA Ventures. A serial entrepreneur who started with a Quiznos franchise in his early 20s, pivoted through ad-tech at AppNexus (now Xandr), built the philanthropy platform Hedado, and now scouts early-stage startups for Andreessen Horowitz's speedrun accelerator while building the AI infrastructure for lifelike human motion in games and animation.
Wyatt Horan is a Scout at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he focuses on early-stage investments in AI applications and infrastructure. A Stanford engineer turned venture operator, Horan spent five years as a Deployment Strategist at Palantir Technologies in Europe before earning his MBA at Stanford GSB. He then joined Anthropic's Go-to-Market team, gaining rare front-row exposure to the AI boom before transitioning to the investment side at one of Silicon Valley's most influential VC firms. Outside of tech, Horan has been an engaged civic figure, volunteering with Team Rubicon disaster relief and running for International Secretary of Democrats Abroad.
Yasin Ehsan is a New York-bred software engineer turned edtech founder and venture scout. After winning 13 hackathons, landing a job at Capital One the week he graduated, and filing two AWS patents on the Eno chatbot, he co-founded Headstarter - an edtech platform that has helped generate 60+ six-figure job offers for undergrads. In 2025, he joined Andreessen Horowitz's Speedrun accelerator as a scout, bridging the gap between emerging technical talent and Silicon Valley capital.
Yochay Ettun is an Israeli tech founder turned venture scout at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). He co-founded cnvrg.io, a machine learning operations platform built by data scientists for data scientists, which was acquired by Intel in 2020. A coder since age seven, former Israeli intelligence unit veteran, and Hebrew University Computer Science graduate, Ettun now deploys capital as an a16z Scout, focusing on Israeli and European startups at the earliest stages.