Venture with Grace

Eric Newcomer founded and runs the newsletter and events business Newcomer. He publishes scoops on startup deals, writes profiles of top venture capitalists, and chronicles the inner workings of Silicon Valley. He also hosts the top artificial intelligence conference the Cerebral Valley AI Summit and the financial technology conference the Newcomer Banking Summit.

As a Wing partner, Jake’s interest and expertise centers around operationalizing AI. He is excited by the AI first transformation of businesses from infrastructure and foundation models to AI powered apps as well as tools and security software for technologists adopted in a PLG manner.

Rashmi Gopinath is the Co-founder & Managing Partner of BAM Corner Point. Prior to that, she served as General Partner at B Capital Group and Managing Director at M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund.

Sakib Jamal is a Vice President on the investment team of Crossbeam Venture Partners. Sakib was the first employee at Crossbeam and as of January 2024 has represented the firm with over 15 founders as an investor, board observer and/or director. Prior to Crossbeam, he was an investment banking analyst at J.P. Morgan’s Industrials group, and received a BSc in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. In 2023, he was named on the Crain’s New York and Forbes 30 under 30 list.

Dipto Chakravarty is the Chief Product Officer of Cloudera where he leads Cloudera's product and technology delivery. Most recently, he served as the head of local data engineering in Amazon's generalized artificial intelligence group. Prior to that, he led AWS's fintech cloud practice. Before Amazon, Dipto held executive positions at CA/Broadcom, IBM, Novell, and Thomson-Reuters and founded/led three private equity-backed businesses with exits. He has 12 patents issued to date, has authored 2 books, and 46 publications and book chapters, has served on the board of software companies with exits. Dipto holds a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science from the University of Maryland, business administration from Wharton Business School, and completed the General Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Amy Cheetham is a Partner at Costanoa Ventures. Before joining Costanoa, she ran North American sales strategy and operations at Zuora, a public enterprise software company. Prior to that, she spent three years investing in growth stage technology companies at Summit Partners, where her investments included Podium, InfoArmor (acq. AllState), and onXmaps. She began her career on Wall Street, working at JP Morgan where she spent time as a technology investment banker and as a cash equities trader focused on biotechnology and financial services.

Thomas Jueng is a Managing Director at Samsung Ventures America.

Dr. Matanya Horowitz is the founder and chief technology officer of AMP, a company he built with the objective of transforming the world’s waste from a liability to an asset for society. He developed and commercialized AMP’s breakthrough AI platform and robotics systems, which automate the identification and sorting of recyclables from mixed material streams, pioneering the use of AI in the waste industry and providing waste operators with a reliable source of sustainable diversion.

Andrew Van Nest is a Managing Partner and tenured early stage investor who focuses on B2B Enterprise SaaS, DevOps, Data Infrastructure and AI/ML.

Venky Veeraraghavan is the Chief Product Officer at DataRobot. Prior to that, he was the VP of Product Management at Microsoft. As Chief Product Officer at DataRobot, Venky Veeraraghavan drives the definition and delivery of the DataRobot Enterprise AI Suite. Venky has twenty-five years of experience focusing on big data and AI as a product leader and technical consultant at top technology companies (Microsoft) and early-stage startups (Trilogy).