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Daniel Yousefian
Daniel Yousefian is a co-founder of Clubhouse, the voice-based social networking platform that captured the world's attention during the pandemic. Built under Alpha Exploration Co. and backed by $112M from Andreessen Horowitz, Clubhouse pioneered drop-in audio rooms before boldly pivoting toward intimate friend-to-friend voice messaging - complete with AI-powered custom voice cloning. Based in Yerevan, Armenia, Yousefian is part of the founding trio alongside CEO Paul Davison and co-founder Rohan Seth.
Paul Davison
Paul Davison is the co-founder and CEO of Clubhouse, the live audio social platform that hit a $4 billion valuation within a year of launch during the COVID-19 pandemic. A Stanford-trained industrial engineer turned serial entrepreneur, Davison previously co-founded Highlight (acquired by Pinterest in 2016) and served briefly as CEO of CoinList. His career has centered on one obsession: giving people better ways to find each other and talk. Clubhouse - which he built with co-founder Rohan Seth - brought the intimacy of voice to the scale of a social network, attracting tens of millions of users and sparking a live-audio wave across the industry.
Rohan Seth
Rohan Seth is the co-founder and CTO of Clubhouse, the live audio social networking app that captured the world's attention in 2020-2021 with a $4 billion valuation and over 10 million weekly active users. A Stanford-trained engineer who spent six years at Google on Android and Maps, Seth has a track record of building and rebuilding - launching nine failed apps with co-founder Paul Davison before Clubhouse broke through. He also co-founded Lydian Accelerator, a nonprofit dedicated to finding genetic cures for rare diseases, named after his daughter Lydia.
Hazim Mohamad
Hazim Mohamad is the Co-Founder and CEO of CoffeeSpace, a San Francisco-based AI-powered cofounder matching platform that functions like Tinder for entrepreneurs. After spending four years managing a $40 billion portfolio at the World Bank, he traded financial risk for startup risk - building a mobile-first platform that has amassed 25,000+ users and 2M+ swipes by connecting founders, early hires, and collaborators across the global startup ecosystem. CoffeeSpace raised $1M in pre-seed funding and was featured at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024.
Vanessa Didyk
Vanessa Roth Didyk is the CEO of ZeeMee, a social platform serving 2.6 million college-bound students across 3,000+ institutions. A serial edtech entrepreneur with 16+ years in the field, she founded Scholar's Station at UC Berkeley, sold it, built a tutoring marketplace at Rev.com, ran MathElf, then took over a struggling ZeeMee in 2018 and turned it into a top-10 App Store social networking app used by roughly 1 in 3 US college freshmen annually.
Tony Xia
Tony Xia is a computer vision engineer turned venture scout and startup founder who built his technical chops at DJI, AutoX, and Arraiy (acquired by Matterport) before co-founding Crema Social - a video-call-meets-food-delivery international dating platform that amassed over 1 million signups in 8 months. After graduating from a16z speedrun's Cohort 003, he became a Scout for a16z speedrun, backing pre-seed founders with $10K checks and a direct path into one of Silicon Valley's most competitive accelerators.
Konstantin Guericke
Konstantin Guericke is a German-born entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known as a co-founder of LinkedIn, the world's largest professional networking platform. As LinkedIn's first VP of Marketing, he helped grow the company from a stealth startup to 10 million members and profitability. After LinkedIn, he served as CEO of Jaxtr, a social communications startup that raised $20M and reached 10 million users. Since 2012, he has been a Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital, investing in European startups with global ambitions. Known for his relationship-first philosophy and hiking meetings around Palo Alto, Guericke embodies the bridge between European engineering rigor and Silicon Valley growth culture.