Elad Gil is a Silicon Valley polymath - biologist-turned-Googler-turned-Twitter VP-turned-solo venture capitalist - who has backed 40+ unicorns including Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase, Pinterest, and OpenAI. Managing $3+ billion as one of the largest solo GPs in venture history, he also co-founded Color Genomics, wrote the 'High Growth Handbook' (published by Stripe Press), and co-hosts the No Priors AI podcast with Sarah Guo. His blog (Elad Blog) reaches tens of thousands of readers on startups, AI, and longevity.
Oren Zeev is an Israeli-American billionaire venture capitalist and the most successful solo general partner in VC history. Operating entirely alone from Cafe Venetia in Palo Alto - no partners, no office, no employees - he manages $2.5B+ in assets under management across 9 funds. His concentrated, conviction-driven approach has delivered ~100% IRR since 2008, with landmark investments in Navan (TripActions), Tipalti, Houzz, Chegg, and Next Insurance. His $50,000 'relationship check' in Navan's founders before they had even incorporated the company eventually became a $1B+ payday when Navan IPO'd in October 2025.
Ullas Naik is the Founder and General Partner of Streamlined Ventures, a Palo Alto-based seed fund with $325M+ AUM across 8 funds and 200+ portfolio companies. A Mumbai-born immigrant who cold-called his way onto Wall Street 40 days straight, he went on to back AppLovin and DoorDash at seed stage before either company had a name anyone recognized - a combined market cap now exceeding $170B. With 21 unicorns and 3 decacorns in his portfolio, he operates as a solo GP with a reputation for being a 'founder whisperer' who brings candor, empathy, and conviction to early-stage investing.
Rex Salisbury is the founder and solo general partner of Cambrian Ventures, a $20M early-stage fintech fund born out of one of the largest fintech founder communities in the US. A former Merrill Lynch banker turned bootcamp-trained software engineer turned a16z partner, Rex built his reputation by running grassroots fintech meetups for years before a single dollar of fund capital. His Cambrian newsletter reaches 20,000 subscribers, his founder-only Slack has 1,100+ members, and his Fund I achieved a ~50% seed-to-Series A graduation rate against a 15.4% industry average. Early backer of Deel, now a $10B+ decacorn.
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.
Mario Gabriele is the founder and writer of The Generalist, a long-form tech and venture newsletter with 163,000+ subscribers ranked among Substack's top business publications. Raised in England by an Italian father and American mother, he cut a nonlinear path through law, culinary school, fiction writing, and seed-stage VC before going full-time as a solo creator in 2020. His signature style - combining equity research depth with fiction-writer storytelling - earned him citations in the FT, WSJ, and Bloomberg and attracted a loyal paid following. In 2022, he launched Generalist Capital, a $12.25M solo GP fund, and by March 2026 he had joined Hummingbird Ventures as a full Partner.
Packy McCormick is the founder of Not Boring, a weekly newsletter with 250,000+ subscribers that covers technology, business strategy, and startups through long-form essays. He also runs Not Boring Capital, a solo-GP venture fund with two funds totaling ~$38M invested across 79+ companies. A former investment banker and startup operator, he turned a writing homework assignment into one of the most-read independent tech publications, pioneering a 'media flywheel' model where newsletter content and venture investing reinforce each other.