Speakers
Co-founder, CEO, and General Partner One Capital
People & Performance VP Movile
Co-Founder and CEO Pilot
General Partner Maven Ventures
Partner Greylock
Co-Founder and CEO SeedInvest
Partner Index Ventures
VP, Portfolio Development Dell Technologies Capital
CEO Movile
Founder & CEO oVice
CEO AngelList
Managing Director Cleo Capital
Growth Partner Emergence Capital
General Partner Coatue Management L.L.C.
CFO oVice
GM of New Verticals Pilot
Managing Director & Global Head Venture Investing Citi Ventures
Enterprise SaaS Communications Expert
Startup Growth Advisor & Head of Portfolio Sound Ventures
Co-founder & General Partner Primary Venture Partners
Principal Khosla Ventures
Advisor & Investor Designer Fund
Partner Sequoia Capital
Founder & CEO Superhuman
Partner Cowboy Ventures
Partner SOSV HAX
VP of Product Marketing UserTesting
Partner Norwest Venture Partners
General Partner, SOSV & CTO, IndieBio SOSV
Shinji Asada
Co-founder, CEO, and General Partner, One CapitalShinji Asada is the co-founder and CEO, General Partner of One Capital, an early-stage SaaS-focused fund in Japan. He was the previous Japan Head of Salesforce Ventures investing in Sansan, freee, Goodpatch, Teamspirit, Yappli, Andpad, and many more. Shinji has deep experience investing in US/Japan technology-based companies. Shinji majored in economics at Keio University and received an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
Shinji's Sessions
Achieve Hyper-Growth in Japan as a B2B SaaS
On a journey to build a virtual real estate, learn about the success story behind oVice. Join our session to hear about how oVice was able to dominate its Japanese market as a startup and in under a year. Understand the B2B SaaS market in Japan and explore the best practices presented by our CEO, CFO, and Investor.
Luciana Carvalho
People & Performance VP, MovileLuciana Carvalho, People & Performance VP at Movile, is a firm believer that when people are motivated and inspired, they do their best work. With more than 12 years of HR and operations experience, Carvalho is passionate about combining culture, innovation, leadership and diversity to create workplaces people love and employee experiences that are remarkable.
Luciana's Sessions
Inspiring High-performance Teams: The Movile Way
Big dreams – unbelievably big ones – can really help people see the future. And, they will rally your team to move faster, together. Learn the proven methodology taught at universities like Harvard and Stanford to create a highly effective, “can do” culture to catapult your startup to the next level. And, continue to attract and retain talent, because sizable ambitions inspire teams based on Movile’s wildly successful “Mobile Dream” internship and recruitment program.
Waseem Daher is CEO and co-founder of Pilot, which specializes in bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for high-growth technology startups. He is a three-time entrepreneur with two successful exits: his first company, Ksplice, was acquired by Oracle in 2011 and his second, Zulip, was acquired by Dropbox in 2014. He has a degree in computer science from MIT.
Waseem's Sessions
Standing Out During Your Fundraising Process
Fundraising is never easy – but the right preparation can make all the difference. Three-time founder Waseem Daher shares the KPIs investors look for, which questions they ask, and what you need to succeed at the various stages of investment. Currently CEO of Pilot, which specializes in bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for high-growth startups, Waseem is a three-time entrepreneur with two successful exits.
Sara Deshpande is a General Partner at Maven Ventures, a seed stage venture firm investing in tech companies addressing emerging consumer behavior and trends. Maven identifies and backs bold founders with a vision worth fighting for then helps founders unlock their potential to change the world, leading to iconic brands like Zoom and Cruise. Sara invests in emerging consumer trends including digital health and personalized medicine, consumer applications of AI, consumer climate, family tech, and other high-growth consumer software. Sara was the first employee at Maven and has built her career investing in early stage, ambitious founders. Over the last decade since joining Maven nearly at inception, she has worked alongside Maven founder, Jim Scheinman, to grow AUM from $5M to nearly $200M, returning multiple funds, and advancing from a Senior Associate to a General Partner. Early in her VC career at Maven, Sara’s contributions were highlighted by sourcing deals such as Embark (EMBK) and May Mobility (Series D). She has gone on to spearhead Maven’s theses in focus areas like Digital Health and Alternative Protein, leading the firm’s investments in Hello Heart, Carrot Fertility, Wildtype, and more. Sara has worked with startups around the globe for over 15 years, including at The Idea Village in New Orleans where she ran an early stage tech incubator in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. There, Sara developed a love for helping founders articulate and achieve a bold vision against all odds. For five years, Sara has been a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford GSB where she teaches a popular MBA elective course on startups. Earlier in her career, Sara was a management consultant in the Healthcare Strategy practice at Deloitte. Sara holds a BS in Finance from Xavier University in her hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio and an MBA from Stanford.
Mike is a technology operator who partners with founders building the next wave of commerce, marketplace, and consumer technology businesses. He has led unannounced investments across several focus areas: those building underlying technology/infrastructure to empower modern commerce, marketplaces (both B2B and B2C), and platforms around the shift of consumer engagement toward audio. Mike brings a specialized mindset to the broadest of goals: growth. He focuses on helping founders identify, maneuver, and systematize their growth levers. Having overseen both nine-figure marketing budgets (across both digital and offline channels) and scrappy product-oriented growth teams, Mike understands what both healthy and unhealthy growth look like. Prior to Greylock, Mike was the first in-house growth hire at Stitch Fix, where he built and led the Growth organization and developed a set of core operating principles that helped take the company through IPO. Before that, Mike was the first growth hire at Tilt, where he built and oversaw multiple teams, including analytics, marketing, community, and growth product. He also served on YC’s growth advisory council, is a growth lecturer at Reforge, and was a growth advisor across various VC firms and startups. Earlier in his career, Mike was a consultant with Bain & Company and worked in the Private Equity practice. Mike holds a BS & MS in Industrial & Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from Stanford University.
Mike's Sessions
Growth Marketing 101
“Growth” is a concept that is inconsistently defined and operationalized across startups. Mike has built Growth teams at early-stage and growth/IPO-stage companies, and will talk about how companies should think about organization design for growth, best practices in scaling performance marketing practices, and how investors deconstruct healthy vs unhealthy growth.
Ryan Feit is the CEO and Co-Founder of SeedInvest. Prior to founding SeedInvest, Ryan worked at Wellspring Capital Management and Lehman Brothers in New York City where he invested in, financed, and managed dozens of private and public businesses. Ryan was instrumental in the passage of the 2012 JOBS Act which changed 80-year-old U.S. securities laws to make it possible for entrepreneurs to raise capital over the Internet. Since 2012, he has worked closely with members of the SEC, FINRA, the White House, and the Treasury Department on the implementation of the JOBS Act. Ryan currently serves on FINRA’s Fintech Committee and previously served as a board member of the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates and the Crowdfunding Professional Association. In addition, he frequently serves as a subject matter expert on startup investing and the JOBS Act for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, CNBC, FoxBusiness, the Economist, and the New York Times as well as a columnist for Fortune Magazine and Inc. Magazine.
Ryan's Sessions
Online Fundraising 101
SeedInvest is at the heart of equity crowdfunding. With over $300M raised, 500k+ investors and hundreds of successful startups launched, learn from CEO Ryan Feit on how your business can raise substantial funding online.
Mark focuses on venture investments in financial services, insurance, real estate and enterprise software. Having both an operating and venture capital background, he is passionate about working with entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Mark joined the Index team from Dropbox, where he ran Business Strategy and drove key initiatives in sales operations, partnerships, and growth. During his tenure at the company, Mark held various leadership positions across the finance and business organizations and helped the company grow from 250 to 1,500 people. Previously, Mark was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. After working on the IPO for Tesla Motors, he joined a clean-tech focused venture capital fund, Hudson Clean Energy Partners, where he led investments in solar energy, energy efficiency and storage technologies. Mark graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in International Relations. He currently lives in San Francisco, where he enjoys surfing and playing tennis in his spare time.
Chris Hillock is the Vice President of Portfolio Development at Dell Technologies Capital (DTC), the Venture Capital arm of Dell Technologies. Chris is chartered with creating go to market partnerships for DTC portfolio companies within Dell Technologies business units, as well as fostering direct engagements with large enterprise and innovative customers interested in leading-edge technology solutions.
Chris's Sessions
More than Capital – Value Add Investing
There is a wide variety of capital outlets available for entrepreneurs to consider. Today more than ever, founders are seeking out investors that can deliver value add services to support startups throughout their growth journey. Dell Technologies Capital’s Chris Hillock will discuss the firm’s Portfolio Development Practice, and how their team of company builders helps founding team’s establish and hone product market fit, develop scaling strategies, and provide unique access to the Go to Market capabilities of the Dell Technologies Organization.
Prior to taking the help of Movile, the largest tech investment group in Latin America, as its new CEO in early 2020, Patrick Hruby gained years of leadership experience at Silicon Valley companies, including seven years at Google, followed by seven years at Facebook, where he served as the vice president of sales for small and medium-sized companies in Latin America.
Patrick's Sessions
Inspiring High-performance Teams: The Movile Way
Big dreams – unbelievably big ones – can really help people see the future. And, they will rally your team to move faster, together. Learn the proven methodology taught at universities like Harvard and Stanford to create a highly effective, “can do” culture to catapult your startup to the next level. And, continue to attract and retain talent, because sizable ambitions inspire teams based on Movile’s wildly successful “Mobile Dream” internship and recruitment program.
After graduating from high school in Australia, he returned to South-Korea to start a trade intermediary business. Taking advantage of the Great East Japan Earthquake, he entered a Japanese university, worked as a planning intern for an IT company, started a business in Osaka while he was a university student, and carried out cross-border IT projects. He raised funds from several venture capitals and sold the company to an incorporation listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2017. Since 2019, he has been conducting consulting on cutting-edge IT technologies such as AI, blockchain, and RPA, and established NIMARU TECHNOLOGY to create new technologies in 2020. After being stranded in North-Africa by COVID-19, oVice began to develop.
Sae Hyung's Sessions
Achieve Hyper-Growth in Japan as a B2B SaaS
On a journey to build a virtual real estate, learn about the success story behind oVice. Join our session to hear about how oVice was able to dominate its Japanese market as a startup and in under a year. Understand the B2B SaaS market in Japan and explore the best practices presented by our CEO, CFO, and Investor.
Avlok Kohli is the CEO of AngelList. Prior to AngelList, Avlok founded and sold two companies; FastBite a food delivery company that was acquired by Square in 2015 and Fairy a provider of high-frequency house-cleaning services.
Avlok's Sessions
How to Navigate the Ever-Changing World of Early Stage VC
With over 25 personal investments, AngelList Venture CEO Avlok Kohli knows a thing or two about early stage fundraising. At Early Stage, Kohli will explain the landscape of the early stage fundraising market and how to take advantage of the changes in the VC world over the past year.
Sarah's Sessions
How to Get Ready to Fundraise
The process of fundraising doesn’t start with your first meeting. Setting a timeline, preparing your deck, warming up investors and understanding your strengths are key to a successful fundraise, and need to happen well before you start filling up your calendar. Cleo Capital founding partner Sarah Kunst will outline how to get ready to fundraise and answer your most burning questions.
Doug lives and breathes all things sales and go-to-market. As a Growth Partner, my charter is to create a platform to share go-to-market insights and strategies that will help our portfolio companies scale, grow, and ultimately become the next Billion dollar SaaS company. Prior to joining Emergence Doug spent 12+ years driving sales productivity & efficiency inside of the world’s top technology companies such as Box, Salesforce, and Google. Before joining Emergence Doug held the coveted title as Chief Storyteller and VP of Sales Productivity & Enablement at Box, a provider of content collaboration software with 1,700 employees and annual revenue run rate of $600 million. “As the Chief Storyteller, I was responsible for helping to change the way Box talked to, and about, their customers.” Doug brings a wealth of experience in driving sales efficiency and excellence through the use of data and customer insights to help transform the way sales organizations scale, develop and engage with prospects and customers. Building, and accelerating the growth of a sales organization, requires intention, execution, and the right people. Over the last 15 years, Doug’s built a repeatable process and framework that is utilized in SaaS companies around the world. Doug received his Bachelor’s degree at the University of Oregon.
Doug's Sessions
What's Your Story?
You can have a compelling product, but it’s a compelling story that puts your company into motion. In this session, Doug Landis, former Chief Storyteller and GTM leader from Box, Salesforce, and Google, will share the core storytelling mechanics to help you nail your origin, product, and customer stories that will get your company in motion.
Caryn Marooney is general partner at Coatue Management and sits on the boards of Zendesk and Elastic. In prior roles she oversaw communications for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus and co-founded The OutCast Agency, which served clients like Salesforce.com and Amazon.
Caryn's Sessions
Nail the Narrative
Storytelling is a critical skill for startups. Coatue Management partner Caryn Marooney, formerly head of comms for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus, will share how to frame the narrative for a startup depending on the audience and ensure that when you’re talking about your company, people are not only listening, but they want to learn more.
Daniel Megumu Buckley
CFO, oViceGrew up in Tokyo and New York. Graduated from New York University and joined Goldman Sachs as a summer intern (Special Situations Group and Equity Division) in which later got an offer to work in the Tokyo office. Daniel left the firm in the summer of 2020 after working for 4.5 years to start a wealth management fund. Along with his venture, he has joined oVice in 2021 as a CFO to help drive the business in the Series A~C phase.
Daniel's Sessions
Achieve Hyper-Growth in Japan as a B2B SaaS
On a journey to build a virtual real estate, learn about the success story behind oVice. Join our session to hear about how oVice was able to dominate its Japanese market as a startup and in under a year. Understand the B2B SaaS market in Japan and explore the best practices presented by our CEO, CFO, and Investor.
Katie is the GM of New Verticals at Pilot, which specializes in bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for high-growth startups. Prior to that, she was the COO of Boba Guys & Tea People, a 20-location boba tea company in California and New York, and has worked across a range of executive roles in e-commerce and CPG at Minted, Amazon, and Nike. She holds an MBA and BA from Stanford University.
Katie's Sessions
Standing Out During Your Fundraising Process
Fundraising is never easy – but the right preparation can make all the difference. Three-time founder Waseem Daher shares the KPIs investors look for, which questions they ask, and what you need to succeed at the various stages of investment. Currently CEO of Pilot, which specializes in bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for high-growth startups, Waseem is a three-time entrepreneur with two successful exits.
As Global Head of Venture Investing, Arvind leads Citi’s efforts to identify, invest in, and partner with leading startups as a way to bring cutting-edge technologies and capabilities to Citi’s businesses and functions. Additionally, he serves as a partner to Citi’s business leaders and helps identify market trends based on the 1000+ startups the Venture Investing team meets every year. Under his leadership, the group has partnered with category-defining startups such as Square, Plaid, DocuSign, Honey, Betterment, Braze, Netskope, and Tanium. In his capacity as head of venture investing for the company, he also co-leads the Citi Impact Fund. Prior to Citi, Arvind spent nearly a decade as a Managing Director at Menlo Ventures, where he was an investor and Board member at companies including Kazeon Systems, Cavium Networks, Solidcore, nCircle Network Security, Intelligent Results, and Vhayu Technologies. Previously, Arvind was a design engineer and a Program Manager at Intel Corporation. Arvind obtained his BSEE from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, an MSEE from Case Western Reserve University, and an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School. He enjoys running, photography, and reading in his spare time. Arvind is passionate about golf—a passion, sadly, that his skill level does not match.
Arvind's Sessions
How to Drive Your Business Forward: The Power and Opportunity of Leveraging Corporate Venture Capital
When raising capital as a startup, it’s important to find the right partner to help drive your business forward. Corporate venture capital (CVC) firms present startups with several unique advantages including market validation, distribution support and a customer point of view. While it’s important to find the right venture capital partner for your company, CVCs can provide knowledge and experience if leveraged properly. In this session, Arvind Purushotham, managing director and global head of venture investing at Citi Ventures, will discuss his background and how he came to start Citi Ventures ten years ago, as well as the benefits and company support that startups can expect from working with a CVC.
Rebecca Reeve Henderson
Enterprise SaaS Communications ExpertRebecca Reeve Henderson is a technology industry comms leader with a deep specialty in enterprise SaaS companies focused on the future of work. She\’s driven communications programs for some of the most significant business software brands of the last decade, including Slack, Mailchimp, Carta, Shopify, InVision, Zendesk, Trello, ZipRecruiter, Canva, and Zapier. Rebecca’s deep industry insight gives her an uncanny ability to identify startups just before their inflection points, articulate their unique value proposition, and help accelerate their trajectory. In 2009, Rebecca founded Rsquared Communication, an award-winning PR tech agency headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Vancouver and Toronto. Under Rebecca’s leadership, Rsquared Communication led communications for dozens of companies during intense periods of growth, with clients scaling from their first dollar through to hundreds of millions a year in revenue, multi-billion dollar valuations, and IPOs. In mid-2019, Rsquared Communication was acquired by Archetype, a publicly-traded global communication powerhouse of more than 700 people. Today, Rebecca advises and invests in B2B SaaS, and is involved with a handful of local non-profits and cultural organizations. Rebecca holds an M.A. in Media Studies from Concordia University in Montreal, and a B.A. in Communication from Washington State University.
Susan is a startup growth advisor and executive-in-residence at Sound Ventures. Susan started in product, moved into marketing, and the hybrid of the two became growth around the time that scaled distribution platforms started taking off. She has previously owned startup growth at Stripe, served as an in-house growth advisor at 500 Startups, and led growth marketing as the founding team member at Reforge. In addition to working with Sound’s portfolio of companies, Susan continues to advise teams from seed stage startups to public companies on growth and marketing.
Susan's Sessions
How to Line Up Your Growth with Your Goals
Unlike giant brands, startups need to use their marketing spend wisely and efficiently. Sound Ventures’ Susan Su is a growth marketing expert and will share how to define growth based on your startup’s goals, and how to take a framework-based approach to growth, rather than relying on old playbooks that aren’t relevant.
Ben is a co-founder and General Partner at Primary Venture Partners. He has been a serial entrepreneur and investor as a co-founder of LaunchTime an incubator and investor in early stage tech startups and as a co-founder of Community Connect which was one of the first social networking companies. Ben focuses his investing activities on primarily consumer-facing companies. His previous investments include Coupang, Jet.com, MakeSpace, Ollie, Mirror, Slice, Bounce Exchange, Selfmade, Shoptalk and Penrose Hill. Ben has been active in the NYC tech community for almost 20 years. Prior to working as an entrepreneur and investor, Ben worked at Merrill Lynch in the Technology Investment Banking Group. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Economics.
Adina Tecklu is at Khosla Ventures where she focuses on Seed – Series B investments in SaaS and Fintech. Prior to KV, Adina was an investor at Canaan where she built and led the firm’s Seed practice. Before becoming an investor, she was a Product & Ops leader at Oracle and Zenefits. Adina holds degrees in Management Science & Engineering and Science, Technology & Society from Stanford University. She was featured on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List for Venture Capital. Adina cares deeply about increasing diversity across venture and venture-backed companies and is a Founding Board Member at BLCK VC and Co-Head of the VC Careers team at All Raise.
Adina's Sessions
Nailing Your Pitch
Companies aren’t started at the moment of fund raising begins but they can often end there. Nailing your pitch is integral to success. Hear from Adina Tecklu on how to tell your story and leave investors wanting more.
Scott Tong is a startup advisor and entrepreneur in residence at IMO Ventures. Previously he was head of product design at Pinterest, co-founder at IFTTT, and principal designer at IDEO. Follow him @ScottTong on Twitter.
Scott's Sessions
Design Matters
Design has never been more important. Users have been spoiled and startups, along with big brands, are offering designers many more seats at the table. Hear from Designer Fund’s Scott Tong on how to think about design from the early stage and how it can impact everything from UX to brand awareness to long-term vision.
Mike Vernal is a partner at Sequoia Capital. He loves partnering with companies starting at the earliest of stages and helping them scale over time. He currently sits on the board of Citizen, Jumpstart, rideOS, PicsArt, Rockset, Threads and Whisper. Prior to joining Sequoia, Mike was a VP at Facebook where he led a variety of product and engineering teams. He was the co-creator of Facebook Login and the Graph API and led the teams that created Facebook’s Mobile App Ads and Audience Network.
Mike's Sessions
Product Market Fit is All About Tempo
Sequoia’s Mike Vernal understands that the most successful companies are not necessarily the ones with a great idea, but the ability to learn from their customers and adapt quickly. Hear this seasoned venture partner explain how customer feedback loops, product iteration tempo and mindset not only affect fundraising, but the overall trajectory of the company.
Rahul Vohra is the founder and CEO of email app Superhuman.
Rahul's Sessions
Growth Hacking, Product Fit and Pricing
Superhuman’s Rahul Vohra shares strategies for early-stage founders on topics like hacking your way to product-market fit, driving user sign-ups without breaking the bank on paid ads, and identifying your product’s price point.
Ted is an investment partner at Cowboy Ventures and has spent his career helping start ups, from a founding team with an idea to the world’s largest technology companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Dropbox. Prior to Cowboy, Ted was a partner at the law firm of Fenwick & West where he was recognized as one of the country’s leading technology lawyers. Ted is a Duke Blue Devil, a wandering traveler, a devotee of live music, a low skill but high energy outdoorsman, and an overly emotionally committed local sports fan. Ted is also active in the community, particularly around the areas of mental health and homelessness. He has two children, a patient and understanding wife, and a crazy dog named Charlie.
Ted's Sessions
How to Capitalize on Being Coached
Ted Wang, partner at Cowboy Ventures, comes from the legal world where he was a partner at Fenwick. In short, he’s seen his fair share of startup success and failure. At Early Stage, Wang will explain the value of coaching for startup founders, including the different types of coaches one might utilize, how to choose between them, and how to get the most out of a good coach.
Garrett Winther is a partner and program director at HAX, SOSV’s venture program for hard tech. An engineer by training, venture builder by trade, he is bringing hard-tech ventures to life at SOSV, IDEO and MIT.
Garrett's Sessions
Deep Tech: How to Raise Early in a Notoriously Tough Category
The greatest evolutions in our history have not come from small technological steps, but giant leaps. Frontier tech is the future, but it’s not particularly accessible to average folks. Hear from IndieBio partner Pae Wu and HAX partner Garrett Winther on how to fundraise for your deep tech startup.
Nate is passionate about helping businesses use technology to deliver better, more customer-driven experiences. He leads product marketing at UserTesting where he helps businesses build better experiences leveraging the power of human insight. Prior to UserTesting, Nate was a director at Optimizely, where he led product marketing for the company’s web experimentation and personalization products. He’s also held roles in product marketing and B2B marketing at Twitter and Groupon. Nate received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and his BS from Boston College.
Nate's Sessions
Iterating More Effectively with Feedback
A great product alone is not enough. To be successful, early-stage companies need to optimize all phases of the customer journey. This session will include tactics, best practices, and case studies on how to use customer feedback to understand customer needs, craft more compelling messaging, and improve all phases of the customer experience.
Lisa Wu
Partner, Norwest Venture PartnersLisa is a partner at Norwest where she focuses on seed to late-stage venture companies with an emphasis on consumer Internet, digital commerce, and next-generation marketplaces. Her current investments include Calm, Ritual, Plaid, Opendoor (Nasdaq: OPEN) and Grove Collaborative. Lisa is also responsible for the firm's investments in Jet (acquired by Walmart) and Stella Connect (acquired by Medallia).
Lisa's Sessions
How Founders Can Think Like a VC
Though there is more capital flowing through the market than ever before, the world of fundraising can still feel like a black box to many founders. Hear Norwest Venture Partners’ Lisa Wu explain how founders can get in the mind of a VC, framing their company’s narrative in terms that VCs love. Be the ball, as they say.
Pae is a General Partner at SOSV and CTO at IndieBio, where she is responsible for portfolio management and technical oversight. Prior to joining IndieBio, Pae served as the Scientific Director of Telefónica’s moonshot factory, Alpha (in Barcelona). She was Science Director at the US Office of Naval Research – Global (out of Singapore), and technical consultant at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Her whole career, Pae has been investing in high-risk solutions to intractable problems for national defense, humanity, and the planet. She is especially passionate about bridging engineered materials and systems to biology. Pae earned her PhD at Duke in Electrical Engineering and her BSE from Princeton.
Pae's Sessions
Deep Tech: How to Raise Early in a Notoriously Tough Category
The greatest evolutions in our history have not come from small technological steps, but giant leaps. Frontier tech is the future, but it’s not particularly accessible to average folks. Hear from IndieBio partner Pae Wu and HAX partner Garrett Winther on how to fundraise for your deep tech startup.
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