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Rishad Usmani

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Rishad Usmani

Founder @ HealthTech Investors | Physician | Artist

With over 8 years of experience as a physician and a healthtech entrepreneur, Rishad is passionate about improving healthcare outcomes and access through innovation and collaboration.

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Moien Giashi PhD

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Moien Giashi PhD

Investing in Deep Tech Startups

Moien is a biomedical industry professional, and materials engineer turned Angel and Venture Capital investment professional. He is currently a Senior Investment Associate at GreenSky Capital, leading deep tech investments.

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Gregory Shepard

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Gregory Shepard

Co-Founder BOSS Capital Partners | BOSS Startup Science

Greg is a 20 year startup veteran and serial entrepreneur with 14 liquidity events under his belt, two of which were sold as part of a $925M transaction that won 4 PE awards for transactions between $250M-$1B.

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Nicolas Rouhana

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Nicolas Rouhana

Chairman & CEO at IM Fndng, Growing Entrepreneurship in Lebanon

Nicolas Rouhana is currently Chairman and CEO of IM Fndng, grouping IM Capital & IM Ventures, aggregating $60M under management, and respectfully funded under USAID MENA Investment Initiative & Lebanon Investment Initiative, providing Matching Capital.

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Rob Ryan

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Rob Ryan

Professional Storyteller & Relationship Capitalist

I am primarily a Storyteller, Relationship Capitalist, Founder @Growthhax Mentor and aggregator of smart really good people worldwide and a uniquely loud/proud advocate of our entrepreneurial economic potential in LA where I’ve lived for 26 years now.

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Daniel Xu

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Daniel Xu

Tech Incubator & VC | Columbia MBA

Columbia MBA focused on Tech Investment and Value Investing.

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Saad Hassan

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Saad Hassan

President & Chief Executive Officer @ Nvestiv

Saad is the President of the Hassan Family Office, and the founder of Nvestiv. As an investment veteran that has facilitated over $10 Billion in deals for his partners, Saad identified a fundamental absence of technology in the way capital is allocated.

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Carey Ransom

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Carey Ransom

Managing Director at BankTech Ventures; Founder at Operate

Having extensive experience from startup to explosive growth to exit multiple times, and having sold a private company to a public company (while being CEO), I am a serial entrepreneur and investor.

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Peter Vesterbacka & Kustaa Valtonen

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Peter Vesterbacka & Kustaa Valtonen

Helsinki-Tallinn Tunnel

Working hard on building the FinEst BayArea! I am heading the Finest Bay Area Development Company program management office. The project is getting ready to construct the Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel (www.finestbayarea.online).

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Sanjeev Kohli

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Sanjeev Kohli

Founding Partner – Glowfish Ventures

Sanjeev is a Founding Member at Glowfish, a tech-focused VC cum business builder based in Dubai. Glowfish’s ventures include CarSwitch.com –Used Cars Sales / Purchase Platform, oladoc.com – Digital Health Marketplace

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Anthony Choe


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Anthony Choe

Founder at Provenance

Anthony Choe is the founder of Provenance, a growth-stage private investment firm focused on digitally-intensive omni channel brands. Provenance uses a highly analytical approach for due diligence and strategy development

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Nicole Denholder


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Nicole Denholder

Investing in female founders | Teaching women about money

Founder of Next Chapter Ventures (NCV), where we are redefining partnerships for Female Entrepreneurs, Investors and Partners.

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Cameron Atlas

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Cameron Atlas

Speaker | Storyteller | Executive Coach | Singer-Songwriter

Cameron delivers experiential keynotes, blending live music on stage with insights on high performance, leadership, creativity & innovation.

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Jordi Ferrer Rendé


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Jordi Ferrer Rendé

Venture Capital | Business Development | Strategy

Entrepreneurial-minded executive with over 10 years of increased responsibilities in key management positions in Business Development and Strategy in Europe, USA, Middle East and Africa.

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Tiziana F. Bombassei


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Tiziana F. Bombassei

VC | Entrepreneurship | Impact | Emerging markets

I’m the Global Partnerships Manager for Seedstars, a Swiss investment holding with a presence in 80+ emerging and frontier markets.

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Ryan Else

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Ryan Else

Managing Partner – Roadster Capital

Ryan has built businesses as a sales executive, investor and entrepreneur. He has also managed turnarounds, venture capital investments exceeding $3B in value and M&A activity exceeding $500m in value.

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Beatriz Franco


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Beatriz Franco

Managing Partner, Vita Ventures – Early Stage Food Tech Investor

Beatriz Franco is a Managing Partner at Vita Ventures, an early-stage fund supporting innovations across the food industry while reducing demands on our planet.

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Ben Gibbons


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Ben Gibbons

Founder and Managing Partner at Waterpoint Lane

Focused career on investment banking and consulting support to growth stage and middle market companies with extensive experience across mergers and acquisitions, debt, equity.

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Chirag Gupta

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Chirag Gupta

Venture Capital | Startup Mentoring | DeepTech

Chirag is the Managing Partner at 8X Ventures, a Deep-Tech focused venture capital firm. He invests and enables startups that will lead disruptive innovation and create sustainable value.

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Alan Costello


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Alan Costello

Early & Scaling Venture Investment, Climate & SustainabilityTech

Alan is an Innovation, Strategy & Venture Investment professional. Always driving at innovation solutions and business models to important challenges – Climatetech, Food/Agtech – all convergent tech.

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Lewis Burnham


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Lewis Burnham

Investor at IDEA Fund Partners

Lewis has a deep passion for leading and mentoring. Beginning in the earliest day of his career as an educator and coach, continuing through his career in the medical device industry.

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Jake Prigoff

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Jake Prigoff

Doctor, Cancer Survivor, Investor

Jake Prigoff is a Partner at Gaingels, one of largest and most active private investors dedicated to supporting diversity and inclusion within the venture capital ecosystem.

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Steve Tokarz


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Steve Tokarz

General and Managing Partner at Cantilever Investors Fund

Steve Tokarz is an experienced C-level entrepreneur, fundraiser and business developer and has been active in early-stage company and product development for the past 30 years.

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David Evans


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David Evans

Seed Investor | CTO | AI-Enabled SaaS

I am a serial entrepreneur and technologist who started coding at 14, launched my first business at 19, and made by first angel investment before age 30.

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William A. Mejia

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William A. Mejia

General Partner & co-founder at Arrebol Capital

I am a Senior Investment Specialist with extensive Global Emerging Markets experience, built upon solid analysis and consistent investment returns.

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Ahmed Hazem


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Ahmed Hazem

CEO of Falak Startups

Experienced Investment Professional with a demonstrated history of working in the venture capital and private equity industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Business Planning, Risk Management, Business Planning and Financial Analysis.

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Bryan Duarte


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Bryan Duarte

Social Venturist | Co-Founding GP, BlackTech Capital

I am a Social Venturist, Entrepreneur, Angel Investor and a licensed Professional Engineer. I am the Co-Founder and the Managing Partner at BlackTech Capital (BTC) and the Founder & CEO of Enliten.

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Sa'ad Shah

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Sa'ad Shah

Managing Partner, Noetic Fund

9 years at RBC Capital Markets in real estate banking, corporate credit, and derivative sales & trading.

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Meir Rabkin

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Meir Rabkin

Founder and Managing Partner at Blue Vision Capital

Investor, entrepreneur, founder, accumulating 18 years of experience in the institutional asset management space and the international investment industry.

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Janneke Niessen


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Janneke Niessen

Harper’s Bazaar Woman of the Year, VC @CapitalT, Columnist

Janneke is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, board member and mentor for startups and co-founder of CapitalT, a VC fund that invests in technology companies using proprietary technology to evaluate entrepreneurial teams.

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Tino Reyes

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Tino Reyes

Angel Investor and Startup Consultant

Our guest today is one of the Philippines’ up-and-coming angel investors and startup consultants, Tino Reyes. Tino shares the lessons he learned across the US, Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Canada with Jeffery Potvin (JP).

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Luca Singh Bhalla


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