#26: Entrepreneurship through Acquisition with Thomas Street Partner’s Sam Krieg
Sam is former hedge fund analyst turned nonprofit operator who is from Milwaukee, WI. After graduating from Williams College, Sam worked as investment banker for JP Morgan and as an analyst with Balyasny Asset Management where he focused on midstream oil and gas services.
#25: Venture Capital Investing in Silicon Valley, today and tomorrow with AiSprouts’s Suman Talukdar
Suman Talukdar is a venture-backed operator turned investor at AiSprouts.vc, where he is working with entrepreneurs on the next big ideas. With a track record of $7B in exits, with companies including Cloudflare and Anaplan, Suman invests in companies with the traits he\\\’s seen make others highly successful.
#22: Remote VC Investing & Startup Funding with Newchip’s Keagan Wernicke
Keagan Wernicke is the Chief Operating Officer at Newchip. Newchip is the #1 remote accelerator with a special focus on helping founders raise money.
#21: Global Family Office Investing with Giampaolo Parigi, Chairman SFO
Giampaolo Parigi is a London-based venture capitalist, merchant banker, serial entrepreneur, and chairman of a single-family office with 30 years of international track record on the primary and secondary markets.
#20: Funding Female-Led Startups in APAC with Her Capital’s Tanya Rolfe
Tanya founded the Ladies Investment Club in Singapore in 2017. Eager to enter the world of venture, she established a team of 40 female investors providing hard to access funding to female founders.
#19: Investing in Malaysia & APAC with Ficus Venture Capital’s Rina Neoh
Rina is a serial entrepreneur and Asian thought leader in the fields of startup incubation and acceleration, angel investments, venture capital funding, entrepreneurship education, startup ecosystem development, social enterprises, micro-entrepreneurship, and technology-enabled businesses.
#15: Quantitative VC Investing and a Path to Personal & Professional Growth with Nuno Goncalves Pedro
Nuno Goncalves Pedro is the founder and managing partner of Strive Capital, the first ever quant early-stage VC firm in the Bay area, focused on consumer and enterprise software, with investments in App Annie, Gusto, Rubrik, Enish (IPO), Virta Health, DraftKings, among others.
#13: The Future of Silicon Valley and the Internet of Value with Gumi Cryptos Capital’s Miko Matsumura
Miko Matsumura is a General Partner with Gumi Cryptos, a US $30M venture capital fund focused early stage blockchain startups and a Venture Partner with BitBull Capital, a cryptocurrency fund-of-funds. He is also an advisor to Arrington XRP Capital.
#09: Doing Deals Responsibly in A Crisis with 1982’s Scott Krivokopich
1982 Ventures is a Singapore based VC firm focused on investing in early stage fintech start-ups in Southeast Asia. We have experience leading and executing fintech deals in the region.
