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Truett Dwyer
Truett Dwyer is co-founder and co-CEO of Clerq, a New York account-to-account payments platform built for high-ticket transactions in industries like automotive, powersports, and equipment where 3% card fees and chargebacks eat margins. A Wharton graduate who spent his early career investing at Citadel, Summit Partners, and Blackstone, he and co-founder Ben Markowitz approached payments from first principles and chose to embed inside merchants' checkout workflows rather than build a consumer app. In October 2025 Clerq raised a $12M Series A led by 645 Ventures, bringing its total to $21M, on the back of 6x revenue growth and marquee dealership and marketplace clients.
Output Inc.
Output is a Los Angeles-based music technology company that builds software instruments, effects, and AI-assisted tools for musicians, producers, and sound designers. Founded in 2013 by composer Gregg Lehrman, its plugins - including the cloud-connected sampler Arcade and the AI-powered Co-Producer - have shaped records by Drake, Justin Bieber, Coldplay and Rihanna, as well as scores for Stranger Things and Game of Thrones. The company bootstrapped for seven years before raising a $45M Series A from Summit Partners in 2020.
Carle Stenmark
Carle Stenmark is a General Partner at VMG Partners in San Francisco, where he leads the firm's technology investing practice (VMG Tech). After spending his first years at VMG investing in branded consumer products, he convinced the firm's LPs to launch a dedicated tech strategy backing the software, marketplaces, and AI-native businesses that power the consumer ecosystem. He has partnered with founders at Afresh, Boulevard, FERMAT, Claim, Nowsta, and Daily Harvest.
Max Motschwiller
Max Motschwiller is a General Partner at Meritech Capital, a Palo Alto-based growth investment firm behind more than $150 billion in IPOs. He leads investments in enterprise software and fintech at Series B, with a focus on companies scaling toward market leadership. Before Meritech, he backed Uber, Duolingo, Dropcam, and MyFitnessPal at Kleiner Perkins, and spent three years at Summit Partners executing growth equity deals. Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2015, Motschwiller brings an edge forged at Harvard lacrosse, two VC institutions, and a sharp eye for companies that define their categories.
Janet Dryer
Janet Dryer is a seasoned software industry executive with over 30 years of experience building and scaling technology companies. She served as CEO of Perforce Software from January 2016 through mid-2018, relocating headquarters from San Francisco to Minneapolis and growing the company from roughly 220 to 450 employees while doubling revenue to $150M. Previously, as CEO of HelpSystems for 16 years, she grew it from $20M to $110M in annual revenue. She now serves as Chair of the Board at Perforce, which provides version control, DevOps, and software development lifecycle tools to over half of the Fortune 500.