B2B Software

Josh Auffret is an accomplished digital media and entertainment leader with over 25+ years of experience developing innovative digital campaigns and content solutions for some of the world's top brands. With extensive experience in product development, creative design, UX, and go-to-market strategies, Auffret excels in driving operational excellence. He is adept at account management, online marketing, and brand management, consistently delivering impactful results and enhancing brand value.

Michael Litt has established a notable presence in the business world as a Founder, CEO, and Investor. He successfully raised $85 million in funding for Vidyard while leading a team with over 300 members. His dedication to Go-to-Market (GTM) strategies and sales technology is reflected in the numerous Generative AI products developed at Vidyard. In addition to his role at Vidyard, Michael also serves as an investor at Garage Capital, a firm that has backed more than 150 companies, with 12 of them achieving valuations surpassing $1 billion.

Derek is known for driving transformational change within highly regulated spaces including healthcare and life sciences in both startup and enterprise settings. Most recently, he led the delivery and operationalization of clinically validated AI models at population scale as well as the adoption of Generative AI-based infrastructure within a Fortune 20 payer, driving $500M in operational gain. Derek is also a recognized thought leader in bringing Zero Trust, Cloud Native patterns, and applying Generative AI to the healthcare sector.

Josh Bigelow is an accomplished technical executive with a wealth of experience in the field of engineering. With over 25 years of expertise, he excels in hiring and managing technical teams and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs). Josh played a crucial role in the success of Box, a company he co-founded in 2005, which achieved a multimillion-dollar exit. Furthermore, as the founder and CEO of Syncromatics, Josh navigated the company to another multimillion-dollar exit without the need for external funding, achieving $18 million in ARR.

Chris Yeh is a writer, investor, and entrepreneur who has been in the world of startups and scale-ups since 1995. Co-author of the bestselling book Blitzscaling together with LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Chris offers advice and mentorship on on how to build and scale your business. Hundreds of companies, from garage-dwelling startups to Fortune 50 titans have tapped his knowledge and insights to accelerate and transform their businesses. As the Founding Partner of Blitzscaling Ventures, he helps founders rapidly scale their companies, fundraise and figure out how to crack new markets. Prior to his investing journey, he was the CMO of Target, and started his career as a PM at D.E. Shaw in the 90s.

Noah Labhart is the Co-founder & CTO of Veryable and Host of the Code Story podcast. He co-founded Veryable in 2016 with Mike Kinder and they have since gone on to raise more than $40m. Noah leads the Product & Technology team, where he is responsible for setting and delivering the digital product vision for the company. On his podcast Code Story, Noah interviews technical leaders about their human experiences taking a product from the back of a napkin to a scalable, successful solution, changing an industry along with it.

Carl Carell is the Co-founder and CRO of GetAccept, an all-in-one digital sales room platform helps salespeople win more B2B deals. GetAccept has raised more than $30M in venture funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Amino Capital and DN Capital. Carl has co-founded several companies and have an extensive experience in scaling SaaS sales, go-to-market, leadership, and business development. Outside of GetAccept, Carl enjoys helping founders with scaling their business & B2B sales.

Sascha Eder is the founder and CEO of NewtonX, a B2B enterprise research startup that has raised $40M+ in venture capital. Prior to NewtonX, Sascha was a management consultant spending time at both McKinsey & Co. and the Boston Consulting Group, as well as as a financial analyst at P&G. He graduated from MIT Sloan School of Management with honors and was named to the prestigious Forbes 30 under 30 list for Enterprise Technology in 2020.

Wil Eyi is the CEO and co-founder of Toolbox, a Y Combinator-backed startup building a vertical Fintech platform. The company has raised $18M in debt and equity. Prior to founding Toolbox, Wil worked in private equity at Walburg Pincus and as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. Wil holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. He came to the US as an immigrant from Gabon and worked blue-collar jobs to pay for college.

Eli Schwartz is an SEO expert and consultant with more than a decade of experience driving successful SEO and growth programs for leading B2B and B2C companies. He helps clients like Shutterstock, Gusto, WordPress, BlueNile, Quora, Getaround, Mixpanel, and Zendesk build and execute Global SEO strategies that dramatically increase their organic visibility at scale. ​ In the past, Eli led the SEO team at SurveyMonkey, building organic search from nearly zero to one of the largest growth drivers at the company. He helped launched SurveyMonkey’s first APAC office and oversaw international SEO pre- and post-IPO.

Rune Hauge is the co-founder and CEO of Mentorcam (YC S21), angel investor, and startup advisor. Before co-founding Mentorcam, Rune founded three different startups with one successful exit as a founder. He has raised millions of dollars in venture capital from top-tier Silicon Valley VCs like General Catalyst and Goodwater Capital and several high-profile angel investors. He took Mentorcam through Y Combinator in the summer of 2021 and raised $4M at a $27M valuation in their seed round. A lifelong believer in continuous learning and development, Rune is passionate about mentoring other founders and building products that empower people's lives.

Christen Nino De Guzman is a content creator and the founder of Clara. Christen has more than 10 years of experience working with creators at companies such as Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest, and has run hundreds of sponsored campaigns with some of the world’s largest brands. She advises companies on how to best leverage influencers and content for marketing. Christen is an advocate for diversity in tech, and is also extremely passionate about helping people land their dream jobs and break into the tech industry.

Abhishek Kapur is the CEO of NEXT Trucking, a freight technology platform and digital marketplace connecting shippers and carriers. Abhishek brings a unique blend of global logistics, financial, and business leadership experience to the company. Prior to NEXT, he was at KKR Capstone, the operational arm of the PE giant KKR, where he served as Managing Director. NEXT has raised more than $124 million in funding from investors such as Sequoia and Brookfield Technology Ventures. He previously served as COO of Cognita Asia Holdings and worked at the Boston Consulting Group. He began his career in logistics and supply chain with A.P. Moller-Maersk, where he held a variety of operational roles before becoming Chief of Staff to the group's CEO. Kapur holds an MBA from the London Business School and a Bachelor of Engineering from the National University of Singapore.

Jason Komosa is a sales trainer with over 15 years of experience scaling startups in retail, logistics, and education with executive leaders at big tech companies and accelerators such as Uber, Compass, and 500Startups respectively. He was previously the in-house sales and marketing coach at Vitamin Water, the National Director of Sales at Groupon (where he helped lead the company to IPO), and the Chief Revenue Officer at Blackcart for over five years. He is a Limited Partner at Long Jump Ventures and a Venture Partner at New Stack Ventures, in addition to being a sales and marketing leader. In his spare time, Jason is a pre-seed to series B stage tech advisor and passionate about helping founders bringing new products and services to the market.

I love mentoring entrepreneurs. For the last decade, I have helped over 50 entrepreneurs turn their idea into revenue. In 2016, I founded SHARE Mobility. We raised $19M of venture capital and serve major enterprise companies to solve their hiring and retention problems with employee transportation. On MentorCam, I work with scaling entrepreneurs that are looking to take their startup to the next level or overcome major roadblocks. I am looking to support founders that: · are building meaningful, high growth technology or tech-enabled services businesses · have raised or plan to raise venture capital · are solving problems that improve the way of life for large groups of people · are look for advice that leads to action Ready to help.

Liz Tsai is the founder and CEO of HiOperator, a customer service-as-a-service solution company that allows businesses to handle client customer service tickets faster and more accurately through AI, backed by Y Combinator, 43North and HearstLab. Liz spent several years working in the physical commodities trading industry in Geneva and Singapore after completing her bachelor's and master's degrees at MIT. Liz is a big believer in ruthlessly defining MVPs, sales-led growth, and intentional fundraising.

Robin is a three-time CMO with more than 20 years of experience in marketing and growth leadership roles at companies like Salesforce, Box, LinkedIn, Matterport, and WeWork. He's done 3 IPOs, several acquisitions, and led companies through hyper-growth to become household names. Robin now works as an advisor, speaker, and motivator to fast-growth companies around the world.

Erik Shani is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Fyllo. He's a 25 year veteran in the tech startup ecosystem with experience in multiple verticals (telecom, adtech, insurtech, and cannabis to name a few), across multiple regions (North America, EMEA, APAC), and business models. He has also been an active investor in early stage startups. Erik is excited to help early and later stage founders and companies find their next stage of growth, be it on the tech side, GTM, business model or other areas.

Asher King-Abramson is the founder of Got Users, a growth coaching program working with the fastest-growing companies in Silicon Valley. Before Got Users, Asher was one of the co-founders of Demad Curve. He has helped drive $100M+ in revenue across 100+ startups and has led sessions on growth at Y Combinator, Village Global, and Google. He has tactical expertise across growth strategy, SEM, paid social, cold outbound, conversion rate optimization, and much more.

Sam Hodges is the co-founder and CEO of Vouch, a venture-backed commercial insurance business focused on serving the needs of high-growth companies. Previously, Sam served as co-founder and U.S. Managing Director for Funding Circle, a leading global lending platform for small businesses, where he helped scale the U.S. operation to over $1.5B in total origination volume, serving tens of thousands of small businesses. Funding Circle went public on the London Stock Exchange in Fall 2018. Before this, Sam played a role in building several other financial technology companies and started his career in management consulting and investing. Sam currently serves on the boards of two private companies. He received his MBA and MS from Stanford.

Chris Busch is a seasoned product and technology executive with over 20 years of experience driving digital transformation and innovation across healthcare, consumer goods, and enterprise technology. With a track record of building and scaling SaaS, AI/ML, and IoT platforms, Chris has consistently translated complex customer needs into market-leading digital solutions that fuel business growth and enhance customer experiences. He managed teams in India, China, Eastern and Western Europe and the US up to 160 cross-functional members. The teams he led received multiple industry awards. At Elevance Health, he pioneered an AI/ML platform that revolutioniz He can help with streamlining your product, market, fundraising, engineering and GTM.

Roy Chung is the co-founder and former COO of Apollo.io, a $1.6B unicorn sales automation startup backed by Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, and Bain Capital, among others. Roy is also a General Partner at JoyFund and LP in multiple VC funds like Pioneer, GTM, and LionHeart. Before founding Apollo.io (YC W16), Roy was on the founding team at Doblet (YC S14) and previously worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. A two-time Y Combinator alum, Roy also holds an MBA from UC Berkeley.

Scott Ford is cofounder and CEO of SparkRockets.com, a global innovation platform that empowers entrepreneurs to build and launch quickly. Using their AI-powered platform (SparkRockets), they enable entrepreneurs to build an entire business validation roadmap in less than two minutes. Prior to SparkRockets, Scott was the COO of Techstars, where he led the organization’s accelerator footprint expansion to 50+ programs in 30+ cities in 13 countries across four continents. Annually deploying over $50M in investment capital across 500+ early-stage companies, the Techstars portfolio grew from <$10B to over $160B during Scott’s tenure. Scott and his family live in Boulder, Colorado where he also teaches entrepreneurship at CU Boulder.

Nikhil Desai is a seasoned technology executive having a prolific career spanning two decades. Throughout his tenure, he has guided teams to success in both startup environments and large corporations. His notable past experiences include creating GoToMeeting, a cornerstone in remote communication; the LendingClub platform, which revolutionized peer-to-peer lending; and the Earnest student finance platform, known for its innovative approach to education financing. In his latest role as Mentorcam's CTO, he is focusing on delivering unparalleled expert advice, mentorship, and training to empower both individuals and businesses.

Matthew Erley is a startup growth and marketing executive, advisor, and investor. He has provided 100+ growth audits to both consumer and B2B startups. Matthew has proven experience with early stage startups, developing effective growth programs, building teams, and scaling. Past Head of Growth at Drizly, VP of Growth at Havenly, and Chief Growth Officer at Stella.

Daniel Chen is the Head of Business Development at Brightside, a financial care solution that helps working families improve their financial health. He started his career as a Senior Auditor at KPMG Canada, then moved on to work as an Assistant Controller at eBay before embarking on his entrepreneurial journey with Lightside Games and Levanto Financial. Prior to joining Brightside, Daniel served as Quicken's Head of Business Development, where he oversaw partnerships and launched new businesses. In addition to this, he has an MBA from Wharton Business School and is a certified public accountant.

At the heart of Ramsey's professional journey lies a blend of pioneering sales strategies, a knack for technological innovation, and a profound commitment to mentoring and growth. Co-founding RevGen Labs was not merely about launching another venture; it was about revolutionizing lead generation through an exquisite fusion of proprietary tools and strategic insight. His tenure as Head of Global Sales at Apollo.io, marked by the company's ascension to unicorn status, epitomizes his ability to blend strategic mastery with narrative finesse. Ramsey's diverse experiences, from strategic advisory roles across various industries to spearheading revenue for several companies, have ingrained in him a multifaceted perspective on business growth.

Itay Forer co-founded Cleanly, an on-demand laundry & dry cleaning service backed by YCombinator (W15), Initialized Capital, Soma Capital, Paul Buchheit (creator of Gmail), and NFL legend Joe Montana. He is a serial entrepreneur, board member, mentor/coach, and active angel investor who has built a startup from the ground up to a 400+ person workforce. Specializes in PMF and scaling companies from 0 to 10. As a mentor & coach, he has helped over 300 founders realize their full potential.