Through the Noise

Eric Tarczynski is the Founder and Managing Partner at Contrary, a venture fund that identifies and invests in the world’s top talent. They’ve backed some of the fastest-growing startups in the world including the likes of Ramp, Anduril and Zepto. Contrary’s LPs include the founders of Tesla, Reddit, Facebook, Airbnb, and many more iconic companies.

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Mario Gabriele is the founder of The Generalist, a modern media company. Since its founding in 2020, The Generalist has grown to more than 60,000 subscribers and is read by the most influential founders, investors, and operators across the tech world.

Mario also runs Generalist Capital, an early stage venture fund focused on helping founders create and capture narrative power. He contributes to Philosophical Foxes, an on-chain storytelling initiative.

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Patrick Ryan is the Co-Founder of Odin, an investment platform and community for people building the future. Odin are making it 10x cheaper and easier to launch and invest in syndicates, SPVs & funds.

Before Odin, Patrick was the Project Director of Corporate Venture Capital at Coca-Cola European Partners.

Prior to Coca-Cola, Patrick was Head of Inbound Equity Crowdfunding at Crowdcube. Patrick also built his own Vodka brand, Ishka, before selling in 2019.

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Zach Lloyd is the Founder and CEO of Warp who’s mission is to elevate developer productivity by building a blazingly fast terminal for the modern age. Warp is modernising the command line experience to make it more intuitive and collaborative for modern developers and teams, turning the terminal into a real platform to enable engineering workflows. To date they’ve raised $23 million across a $6 million Seed round, led by GV and a $17 million Series A, led by Dylan Field, the CEO of Figma.

Before Warp, Zach was the interim CTO at TIME after spending over 7 years as a Principal Engineer at Google for the Google Docs Suite.

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Vinay Iyengar is a Principal at Two Sigma Ventures, focusing on early-stage investments in enterprise software, machine learning, marketplaces, and infrastructure.

Prior to Two Sigma Ventures, Vinay was an Investor at Bessemer Venture Partners, having been an angel or co-invested with Bessemer in the likes of Canva, Discord, Zapier among others.

Before Bessemer, Vinay started his career as a Machine Learning Engineer at Intel Corporation before moving to Quantitative Trading at Goldman Sachs.

Vinay also holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and economics from Harvard.

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Sieva Kozinsky is the Founder of Enduring Ventures, a long-term holding company dedicated to buying and building beautiful businesses, arming them with great leadership, and holding them forever.

Prior to Enduring Ventures, Sieva was Co-Founder and General Partner of The MBA Fund, a leading start-up ecosystem among university programs, providing founders with mentorship and seed-stage capital at the earliest stages of development.

Before The MBA Fund, Sieva was CEO of Study Soup, the largest peer-to-peer education marketplace for students in the US.

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Grade Isford is a Principal at Lux Capital, a venture capital firm with over $4B in AUM that invests in emerging science and technology ventures at the outermost edges of what's possible. Grace leads investments at the nexus of web3, data infrastructure, and applications of AI & ML from pre-seed to growth.

Before joining Lux, Grace was a principal at Canvas Ventures. While there, she sourced 10 investments, including open-source robotic process automation platform Robocorp and blockchain-powered, real-time data sharing platform Vendia.

Grace also holds a Masters of Science in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford, where she is also on the board of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.

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Bilal Zaidi is the Founder and CEO of Creator Lab, a podcast and digital marketing consultancy. Each week Bilal interviews some of the best creators and business minds on this earth including the likes of GaryVee, Anthony Pompliano and Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity: Water.

Bilal is also 1/3 of the Not Investment Advice Podcast with co-hosts Jack Butcher and Trung Phan. Before going full time with the Creator Lab, Bilal was Director of Brand Partnerships at Charity: Water, after spending 7 1/2 years at Google helping brands grow their digital presence including Puma, ASOS and Under Armour.

Bilal also holds a degree in Applied Business Management from Imperial College London.

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Tim Suchanek is the Co-Founder and CTO of Stellate. Stellate's vision is to unlock the world's data by removing the inefficiencies of connecting poorly structured and documented APIs. To date they’ve raised $30 million across a $5 million Seed round, led by Boldstart Ventures and a $25 million Series A, led by Tiger Global.

Before Stellate, Tim was Technical Lead at Prisma. Tim also holds a bachelors degree in Computer Science.

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Evgenia Plotnikova is a General Partner at Dawn Capital where she leads on investing in exceptional SaaS companies from early stage to pre-IPO. She is particularly passionate about data, automation and cloud infrastructure. Some of her investments include Dataiku, Firebolt, Shoreline and Soldo. Dawn is Europe's leading specialist B2B software investor, having partnered with the likes of Mimecast, iZettle, Tink and Collibra amongst others.

Prior to Dawn, Evgenia was a VC at Atomico, spearheading its entry into France, and an investor at TPG Capital, having started her career at JP Morgan.

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