Kevin Tan is the co-founder and CEO of Snackpass, the restaurant technology company he started in his last semester at Yale that turned takeout ordering into a social, viral experience. What began as a way to skip the line for campus munchies grew into a multi-product platform - mobile ordering, self-service kiosks, loyalty and gifting - used by hundreds of restaurants. A physics graduate, musician, and self-taught engineer, Tan raised $70 million in Series B funding in 2021 at a roughly $400 million valuation and was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
Spandana Nakka is the Founder & CEO of Pump.co, a Y Combinator-backed startup that cuts AWS cloud bills by up to 60% for free using group buying and AI. Indian-origin, UAE-raised, and Stanford-educated, Nakka spent four years as one of Google's early female PMs on Google Fiber and Google Play before co-founding Sleek (acquired by Snackpass in 2021) and then building Pump in 2022. Featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 for Consumer Technology, she leads an 88-person team making enterprise-level cloud discounts accessible to startups that can't negotiate alone.
Turner Novak is the founder and solo General Partner of Banana Capital, a seed-stage venture fund investing in internet-first founders. He grew up in Winnipeg, Canada, in a single-parent household with intermittent internet access, then built a career path from CFA studies and endowment investing to VC entirely through Twitter presence and a viral fantasy portfolio. He hosts The Peel podcast, writes The Split newsletter, and operates from Ann Arbor, Michigan - proving that Midwest contrarianism and relentless online engagement can be a genuine edge in consumer tech investing.