Jay Simons is a General Partner at BOND, the growth-stage venture firm co-founded by Mary Meeker. Before joining BOND in 2020, he spent 12 years at Atlassian - nine as President - helping grow the company from $20M to over $2B in ARR and through a landmark $5.8B IPO in 2015. He is one of the most influential practitioners and advocates of product-led growth in enterprise software, and now backs the next generation of category-defining SaaS companies from his perch in San Francisco.
Ben Tossell is a British founder, creator, and investor who built Makerpad (sold to Zapier in 2021), launched Ben's Bites - the AI newsletter that reached 162,000+ subscribers - six weeks before ChatGPT dropped, and now heads Developer Relations at Factory.ai. A self-described 'technical, non-technical person,' he has never written traditional code yet scouts for both Sequoia and a16z and has backed companies like Supabase, Pika Labs, and Gamma.
Wade Foster is the co-founder and CEO of Zapier, the automation platform connecting 7,000+ apps for over 2 million businesses. He built Zapier from a 2011 hackathon win in Columbia, Missouri into a ~$7 billion company on just $1.4 million in primary venture capital — one of the most capital-efficient growth stories in SaaS history. A jazz saxophonist from Jefferson City, Missouri with an industrial engineering degree and an MBA from Mizzou, Foster has led Zapier as a fully remote, profitable company since 2014, and is now positioning it as the AI orchestration layer for the agentic era.
Kieran Flanagan is the Chief Marketing Officer at Zapier and one of the most influential voices in B2B marketing. A former software engineer turned marketing leader, he spent nearly a decade at HubSpot building its international marketing engine - growing the Dublin office from 12 to 1,000+ employees. Today he co-hosts the 'Marketing Against the Grain' podcast with HubSpot CMO Kipp Bodnar, publishes 'The AI Marketing Generalist' newsletter on Substack, and invests as a Sequoia Scout. He is widely credited with pioneering the B2B creator approach to marketing and is an outspoken champion of AI-driven marketing transformation.