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Topaz Turkenitz
Topaz Turkenitz is the co-founder and CEO of Vespper (YC F24), a multi-agent AI system that acts as a 24/7 on-call engineer, triaging alerts and troubleshooting incidents through Slack in seconds. A full-stack software engineer with a background in computer science and design, she spent years at the security unicorn Snyk building distributed systems at 99.9% uptime and running growth experiments before setting out to make on-call work stress-free.
Jesse Robbins
Jesse Robbins is General Partner at Heavybit, the San Francisco-based venture firm focused exclusively on developer-first companies. He co-founded Chef (sold to Progress Software for $200M+), invented GameDay chaos engineering at Amazon where he held the title 'Master of Disaster', and co-created the O'Reilly Velocity Conference that seeded the global DevOps movement. A former volunteer firefighter and EMT, he brings a crisis-responder's instincts to early-stage investing, backing companies like Snyk, PagerDuty, Fastly, LaunchDarkly, and Tailscale. His portfolio spans 60+ companies with five IPOs.
Joydeep Bhattacharyya
Joydeep Bhattacharyya is a General Partner at Canaan Partners, a leading venture capital firm, where he focuses on enterprise and cloud platform investments - particularly in cybersecurity and automation. A former Microsoft engineer who helped shape Office 365 and Skype for Business, and a one-time enterprise investor at Shasta Ventures, he brings deep operational and strategic experience to early-stage companies. An immigrant from India, he is a known advocate for international founders navigating the U.S. startup ecosystem. His portfolio includes companies like Dragos, Snyk, Human Security, MindTickle, and Contentsquare. Outside the boardroom, he plays the sitar, roots for the Indian cricket team, and co-founded a rural welfare initiative in India.