Vu Pham is an Operations Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms. As a deal operations partner supporting the Venture teams, he bridges strategy and execution at a firm that has backed companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, GitHub, and Roblox. His career traces a methodical rise through fintech and enterprise tech - from being the second support agent at WePay to leading product programs at Chime, technical programs at Palantir, and operations at Stripe - before landing at a16z where he helps portfolio companies scale and operationalize their ambitions.
Shyam Maddali is the Co-Founder and CTO of Coris, an AI-powered merchant risk platform backed by Y Combinator, Lux Capital, and Exponent Capital. After spending seven years at WePay (a JPMorgan Chase company) as Senior Director of Data Science & Risk Engineering, and earlier years at eBay leading Trust & Safety machine learning, Shyam co-founded Coris in 2022 to solve the unsolved problem he saw up close: that financial institutions managing small business risk were still drowning in spreadsheets, legacy systems, and false positives. Coris now automates merchant onboarding, underwriting, fraud detection, and continuous monitoring for clients including GoFundMe, Kajabi, Clio, and Cherry - processing intelligence on 330 million merchants across 50+ countries.