Venture Capital

Joe Coyne is a Venture Capitalist focused on helping entrepreneurs scale their businesses from day one to exit. Joe’s experience spans Venture Capital, Private Equity and Investment Banking, having started his career on Wall Street and transitioned to finding his passion for investing at Bain Capital Ventures, Samsung Electronics, and now as Managing Partner of Studio VC. Additionally, Joe studied Finance at the University of Wisconsin and earned an MBA at Harvard Business School. Joe is passionate about helping startups founders and mentoring young professionals looking to break into venture capital as a career.

Max Samuel is a venture capitalist and lawyer. He has formerly worked at Thiel Capital (Peter Thiel’s investment office), Wilson Sonsini and Credit Suisse, and attended Yale University, Penn Law School and Wharton. Max is passionate about mentoring both startup founders and people looking to break into the venture capital industry.

David Anderson is the founding partner of Beat Ventures, an early-stage venture fund that invests in startups reshaping the future of work. Prior to this, he was an investor at Toyota Ventures, and the co-founder of Bamboo, Detroit’s first co-working space for entrepreneurs. He holds an MBA from Harvard and an engineering degree from the University of Michigan. You can ask David about building and scaling tech startups, generating VC interest, the fundraising process, and building meaningful relationships with investors.

Colin Rogister is the founding partner of Beat Ventures, an early-stage venture fund that invests in startups reshaping the future of work. Prior to Beat Ventures, Colin was an investor at Maven Ventures and served as a technology advisor in the Obama White House’s National Economic Council. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. You can ask Colin about fundraising, pitching, and building/scaling projects.

Lorenzo is a venture investor, operator and expert in Artificial Intelligence and Managing Partner at Gaingels, one of the most active investing networks fostering social change in venture. He is a founder and operator first, having co-founded Powerset, a pioneering AI company that developed one of the earliest AI-powered web search engines. Powerset was later acquired by Microsoft and became a part of the launch of Bing in 2009​. I invested and advised over 200 startups, amongst which Lucid, Crowdflower, Weights & Biases, Turing, Eight Sleep and more. Ask Lorenzo about artificial intelligence, Product/GTM, venture capital, pitching your startup, and scaling your company exponentially.

Chad Fox is an advisor to entrepreneurs and family offices through his firm F Partners. Through his VC firm, Fox Ventures, he invests in exceptional founders focused on “The Future of Financial Services”. Chad has a global network that spans from North America to the Middle East and can help you with formation, fundraising, business development and all the challenges that come with building an early-stage company. He is a qualified lawyer, angel investor and venture capitalist.

Scott Ford is a Partner at Zigzag Ventures, empowers early-stage entrepreneurs to unlock their full potential through funding, AI, and a network of experts. With the AI-driven platform gozigzag.com, he enables entrepreneurs to create complete business validation roadmaps in under two minutes. Formerly the COO of Techstars, Scott expanded the accelerator to 50+ annual programs in 30+ cities across 13 countries, growing the portfolio from <$10B to over $160B. He presently teaches entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and has served as a company mentor and advisor for over a decade.

Amit Garg's career in technology spans over 20+ years in Silicon Valley. As a venture capitalist he has focused on seed-stage applied AI investments in digital health, automation and enterprises. Some of his key successes are nuTonomy (seed, sold for $450M) at Samsung NEXT Ventures and Misfit Wearables (seed, sold for $260M) at Norwest Ventures. His operational background is in product and analytics at his own startup, HealthIQ, and at Google, where he joined pre-IPO.

Cristian is Founding Partner of Iluminar Ventures, a Seed fund investing in LatAm with 35 investments in fintech, marketplaces, SaaS and supply chain. He's a Venture Partner at Gaingels, where he led the firm's Research team. Cristian founded TrueColors LatAm, the first non-profit for LGBTQ entrepreneurs in LatAm. Cristian managed a $360B portfolio at AIG, investing across fixed income, structured products, real estate, and private funds. He holds an Economics degree from University of Chicago. Cristian loves turning brilliant ideas into mission-driven companies, and actively advises folks on early stage investing, fundraising, achieving product-market fit, growth and go-to-market strategies, and building mission-driven cultures.