Zach Lloyd is the founder and CEO of Warp, the Rust-based terminal that grew up into an agentic development environment. A former Google principal engineer who led the Docs and Sheets teams, he looked at the one tool every programmer touches and noticed it had barely changed in 40 years. Warp's answer: a command line that reads natural language, runs AI agents, and as of 2025 codes by prompt. The company has raised roughly $73-75M from Sequoia, GV, Dylan Field and Elad Gil, and went from its first $1M of ARR in 300-plus days to adding $1M every few days.
Nico Perdomo is the Guatemalan-American co-founder and CEO of Catch, a San Francisco-based fintech startup that built an alternative payment and rewards platform for direct-to-consumer brands. A Stanford Symbolic Systems graduate who spent time building products at LinkedIn and Affirm, he launched Catch in 2020 with the thesis that every payment transaction should delight the customer. Backed by Sequoia, Index Ventures, and Forerunner, Catch grew to serve hundreds of thousands of primarily Gen Z shoppers across nearly 100 brand partners including Rare Beauty, PacSun, and SoulCycle before ceasing operations in April 2025.
Dalton Caldwell is a serial entrepreneur turned venture capitalist best known for co-founding imeem (one of the first legal music social networks), launching App.net as a principled alternative to ad-supported social media, and spending over a decade as a Managing Partner at Y Combinator advising 1,000+ startups. He is now co-founding Standard Capital, a $425M AI-native Series A fund with Paul Buchheit and Bryan Berg.
Frank Chen is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he has been a foundational force since the firm launched in August 2009. A Stanford Symbolic Systems graduate who studied AI before it was fashionable, he has worked alongside Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz across more than 25 years and multiple companies including Loudcloud and Opsware. At a16z, he built the Deal & Research Team, led the Seed Fund, launched the Talent x Opportunity (TxO) initiative, and now heads Early Stage Venture Programs — building the Founder Library and an LLM-based chatbot that delivers a16z institutional knowledge to founders. He is also Silicon Valley's most acclaimed explainer of complex technology: his 2016 AI Primer video became the canonical introduction to deep learning across the industry.