Summer 2025
SAN FRANCISCO

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Founding Partner of Legacy Knight. Prior to Legacy Knight, Abe was the Managing Director at Mark Cuban Companies. Abe managed the portfolio of investments at Mark Cuban Companies. Abe is also actively engaged as an advisor and board member with a number of companies leveraging his expertise in strategy, operations, and capital allocation to help accelerate their growth.

“Faizan Buzdar is the CEO and Co-Founder of Roll, an innovative AI video platform that enables businesses to create studio-quality videos using just their smartphones. Previously, he served as the VP of Product at Box, leading product development and engineering for all end-user-facing products, contributing to $700 million in revenue. He played a pivotal role in Box’s partnership strategy with Microsoft, Google, Slack, and Salesforce, creating an integrated tech stack of top-tier SaaS experiences. Faizan led the AI strategy at Box, which included a deep collaboration with the best machine learning minds of the industry. He has been a featured speaker at AI conferences by Google, O’Reilly, and VentureBeat. He has previously founded two venture-backed startups, including one backed by Adobe, and holds 22 U.S. patents. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Bloomberg, and major tech publications, and has been highlighted by the White House and U.S. Congress.”

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Kendrick Kho is Founder and General Partner of Hyperparameter, a venture capital firm that invests in founders using artificial intelligence to transform the real world. Over his investing career, he has invested in several industry-defining companies, including SpaceX, Stripe, Deel, and Rubrik. Previously, Kendrick was Partner at Global Founders Capital, a multi-stage venture capital firm with over $3B under management. Kendrick was also an Investor and Head of Data at Hone Capital, which used quantitative and programmatic techniques to assemble a top-decile startup portfolio. He has three degrees from Stanford University, including a MS in Management Science and Engineering.

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Prerna Sharma is a General Partner at Antler US and head of the firm’s Austin office. Prerna joined Antler in 2018 in Singapore and was among the first 5 employees of the firm. Before moving to Austin, Prerna was instrumental in expanding Antler’s presence globally along with creating our core methodology on founder origination. Before Antler, Prerna was employee #3 at Uber Asia, where she helped scale Uber across all cities in Asia. After Uber, Prerna successfully laid the entire People & Culture framework at Flow Traders Asia, a leading Dutch proprietary trading firm, specializing in ETFs. Prerna graduated as a Computer Engineer and spent her early career in India building highly scalable products for massive companies like AMEX and GE Healthcare.

Ahmed Agour is a YC-backed he Co-Founder of Tasker AI, Tasker AI is on a mission to make AI agents accessible to everyone by simplifying their creation for work and data collection. Ahmed also co-founded Dapi, a global open-source open banking platform powered by AI agents. With extensive experience in developer tooling, financial infrastructure, crypto and no-code, his work focuses on enhancing the developer experience and driving new solutions to difficult problems.

“Dr. Wardah Inam is the Co-Founder and CEO of Overjet, the leading provider of AI technology for the dental industry to help improve patient care. Before founding Overjet, she led product development at a healthcare startup, Q Bio, working on biomedical imaging. Before that, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, working on remote biomedical sensing using machine learning on wireless signals. Dr. Inam received a PhD from MIT, where she developed AI-powered microgrid technology. This work received widespread recognition, including National Geographic covering it as a breakthrough that could transform how we power the world. She has corporate experience with GE and Apple and has received the MIT Graduate Women of Excellence Award. Dr. Inam has been ranked among the 32 most influential people in dentistry by Incisal Edge, listed by Inc. Magazine as one of the Top 100 Female Founders, and received the Shils Innovator Award in 2022. She is also a member of the Santa Fe Group’s Strategic Advisory Council, a think tank that advocates for better dental services.”

“Mohammed Alkhoori currently serves as the Head of Marketing and Communications at Hub71. Mohammed holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Management and a specialization in Marketing from Franklin University Switzerland, and has accumulated a rich and diverse background in the marketing field. Over the course of his career, he has had the privilege of working with renowned creative agencies and prominent organizations such as twofour54 and SEHA, making significant contributions to the marketing and communications landscape. In the past few years, Mohammed led on Hub71’s rebrand strategy and at SEHA he led on crucial COVID-19 communications efforts, he has also been a driving force behind promoting major initiatives for twofour54 Abu Dhabi – Media and Entertainment Hub. “

Lola is a Principal at VentureSouq, where she leads the firm’s climatetech thesis focused on food & ag, energy systems, ecosystem restoration and supply chain technologies. Previously she was an Associate and an Analyst at the firm, where she was one of the core team members launching the firm’s impact thesis and Conscious Investor Fellowship, the first pan-regional fellowship focused on impact investing. Prior to VentureSouq, Lola worked at ING Bank and Plug and Play. Lola holds a B.A. from New York University Abu Dhabi where she is now a guest lecturer on climate and impact investing, and is a Terra.do Fellow.

Jennifer Rhima has over a decade of experience in the tech and partnerships industry. She currently leads partnerships at Apollo, leveraging her extensive expertise to drive strategic collaborations and business growth. Before joining Apollo, Jennifer managed the partnerships team for two of the largest online travel platforms in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Her global experience and leadership skills have made her a sought-after advisor and mentor to startups and partnership leaders. Additionally, Jennifer is an active member and the Austin chapter host for Partnership Leaders, where she contributes to the growth and development of the partnerships community.f

Digital Transformation subject matter expert holding both BBA and MBA degrees with a major in Management Information Systems. I specialize in driving both effectiveness and efficiency for businesses; through designing and implementing advanced solutions that were gained by working in major Silicon Valley global brands such as Apple in addition to solid academic knowledge and achievements.
Currently the Co-founder of Ertikaz Solutions; a Saudi-based digital-logistics Fintech solutions company providing innovative products designed to help businesses digitally manage their end-end supply chain from order to cash & payments management

David Munir Nabti is the co-founder and CEO of Bloom 🌻, an innovative organization dedicated to empowering individuals and enterprises through dynamic entrepreneurship and skills development programs. Leveraging an advanced online platform and a vibrant global community, Bloom offers online, hybrid, and offline programs, along with tools to support adaptive, data-driven development for enterprises, universities, and accelerators. With over 17 years of experience and more than 115 sprint and accelerator cycles across the Middle East and Africa, Bloom is committed to building a more inclusive, sustainable, and compassionate world. A Bay Area native and UC Berkeley graduate, David has worked with the UN, Stanford University, Google, and a research center at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education. Stay updated at bloom.pm/news or follow us @bloomemea. As for my photo, feel free to use the one I shared or any from here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1H8uamjyxnUQxHiWbtJ-Ar5pNwR77gmS2

Eileen knows firsthand the power of storytelling and community to drive impact in tech. As a former Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), she worked closely with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, spearheading growth through innovative platform initiatives for one of the most successful and robust tech ecosystems. At Ignite Ventures, she specializes in storytelling for business, marketing, and community-led growth, helping VCs differentiate themselves in a competitive landscape. Eileen partners with VCs and advises startups, leveraging storytelling to build trust, strategic, long-term partnerships and effectively bring brand stories to life for impactful returns.

Carlos Ramos de la Vega is the Director of VC & Tech at GPCA. In this role, he coordinates the organization’s relationships with venture and technology investors, publishes the Global Tech Brief, GPCA’s flagship newsletter on cross-border tech investment in global markets, and oversees the organization’s tech-related products and initiatives. He is a regular speaker at meetings on tech investment in global markets, and is frequently cited in the financial press including the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and Bloomberg. Carlos also serves as the Director of Venture Capital at the Association for Private Capital Investment in Latin America (LAVCA), GPCA’s sister organization, since 2020, where he leads the organization’s relationships with venture investors, and oversees the production of Latin America-specific VC/Tech content, including the LatAm Venture Bulletin. Prior to joining GPCA, Carlos was a member of the Mergers & Acquisition Group in UBS based in New York, where he was responsible for the analysis and due diligence of cross-border transactions between the United States, the United Kingdom, India and South Korea. He received his B.S. in Economics with honors distinction and Minors in Industrial Engineering and Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.

Gabriela de Queiroz is the Director of AI at Microsoft, where she provides strategic guidance to both early and growth-stage startups, helping them harness the full capabilities of AI and Microsoft’s products. Prior to joining Microsoft, Gabriela held significant positions at IBM. As their Chief Data Scientist, she spearheaded the AI Strategy and Innovations, and as the Program Director for AI Open-Source Technologies, she led numerous Data & AI open-source initiatives and projects. Earlier in her career, Gabriela gained experience in diverse sectors, working for startups in the Software, Financial, Advertising, and Healthcare industries.

Aaref is a partner at Bain Capital Ventures. He presently serves on the boards of Clari, Contextual AI, Cleanlab, Felt and a handful of other early stage companies. Previously, he spent seven years as a partner at Sequoia where he served on the boards of Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH), Lightstep (acquired by ServiceNow), MobileIron (NASDAQ: MOBL), Skyhigh Networks (acquired by McAfee), and ThousandEyes (acquired by Cisco). Before becoming an investor, Aaref was part of the founding team at Clearwell, an early SaaS application that automated e-discovery for legal teams. Aaref grew Clearwell from a handful of engineers into a profitable company with over $100 million in annual recurring revenue. In 2011, Symantec acquired Clearwell and Aaref became vice president of engineering in Symantec’s information management group.

Priya is the Managing Director for National Venture coverage at MUFG focused on serving growth and middle-market companies in the innovation economy. She has strong experience building relationships with venture capital firms and their venture-backed technology companies. Before joining the bank, she was at SVB for 16+ years where she was responsible for leading the global markets banking practice for India, MENA, and SEA with a focus on technology and innovation, cross-border clients. Priya is a member of VCNetwork and, sits on the board of Big Brothers Big Sisters as well as an advisor at Entrepreneurship at Cornell University.

Alexa Hall is a Silicon Valley native passionate about livable cities, the arts, and learning-centered travel. She has spent the last 15 years working to support entrepreneurs and has managed over $200M in investment funds at high-value organizations. Most recently, she was the Global Director of the prestigious Kauffman Fellows Program. Earlier in her career, Alexa developed direct funding for social entrepreneurs with Google and the Hewlett Foundation. In addition to her corporate roles, she runs a financial growth consultancy called Wildseed Capital. She is raising an early investment vehicle for global city infrastructure named Earthseed Capital Fund.

Managing Director for Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Head of UK/Europe, Middle East North Africa (Turkey, Egypt, UAE, and Jordan) and Australia/New Zealand (ANZ) where she manages a global portfolio of tech startups and venture capital firms who are expanding stateside and need cross-border banking services as they scale, providing value beyond banking and being their bridge into the US. Sara joined SVB in 2018 and has been in finance for the last 15 years at a variety of different financial institutions including HSBC, IFC-World Bank and Deutsche Bank and has an MBA in international business. She’s spent time living in Dubai, Bangkok, Paris, London, and the US. By way of background, Sara is from France and Afghanistan.

Calvin Chin is Managing Partner at E14 Fund, the early stage venture capital fund affiliated with MIT that invests in deep tech companies from the MIT community. Previously, Calvin has been an operator and founder at deep tech companies Transist, Qifang, SMIC and others.

“Lisa Yu is an Investor, Entrepreneur, Startup Advisor, Executive Coach, Podcast Host, Event Host, and Speaker. She specializes in AI strategy, pitch coaching, and has helped numerous companies launch, fundraise, and scale. Lisa is a General Partner at 99VC, an AI & Exponential Tech fund, former founder and CEO of Officebook, the Airbnb for Offices, and a former coach for FEDTECH, a deep tech accelerator. She is an expert on Go-To-Market strategy, data strategy, AI implementation, and growth. She is also a community builder and super connector in the startup ecosystem and hosts pitch competitions, thought leadership panels, networking events, and investor/founder private dinners, etc. Lisa has been featured on LA Weekly, Forbes, Yahoo! Finance, and shipped award-winning tech featured on Wall Street Journal, CNN, Wired, CNET, Mashable, Fast Company, The Verge, and other press outlets. She has spoken at CES, TechCrunch, SXSW, StartupGrind, AILA, AIVibes, Madhats AI Conference, V5 Venture Summit, Tokenize, CoinAgenda, Web3 Expo, NFT San Francisco, Chainlink, UCLA Blockchain Forum, FEMTech Berkeley, International Women’s Day, Unit Venture’s Global Unconference, Draper University, IVY: The Social University, Digital Lifestyle Conference, Cr3eative X, HERStories, a conversation with Women in Tech & Entertainment, and many more. Lisa is an advocate for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.”

“Omar Shaya is the founder of MultiOn, an AI company that develops autonomous agents. Prior to this, he led product management for Core Product Ranking at Meta and worked on product management at the Microsoft Search, Assistant, and Intelligence (MSAI) organization. Omar holds an MS in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He also has a Computer Science background, holding BS and MS degrees with a focus on AI from Göttingen University in Germany. He holds several patents in AI applications.”

Dr. Wardah Inam is the Co-Founder and CEO of Overjet, the leading AI technology provider for the dental industry. Previously, she led product development at Q Bio, a healthcare startup focused on biomedical imaging. She was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, working on remote biomedical sensing with machine learning. Dr. Inam holds a PhD from MIT, where she developed AI-powered microgrid technology recognized by National Geographic. She has worked at GE and Apple and received the MIT Graduate Women of Excellence Award. She has been named one of the 32 most influential people in dentistry by Incisal Edge, one of the Top 100 Female Founders by Inc. Magazine, and received the Shils Innovator Award in 2022. Dr. Inam is also a member of the Santa Fe Group’s Strategic Advisory Council.

Jon is a Partner at Khosla Ventures passionate about machine learning and its impact on enterprise infrastructure, applications, and developer tools. Prior to KV, Jon built a career in technology as a founder, early employee, and organizational leader across a variety of engineering and product roles. He began his career as an early engineer at Palantir (PLTR), helping scale it from 200 to 1800 employees and founded and sold KoalityCode to Docker, where he created and led Docker’s enterprise division. At Opendoor (OPEN), Jon held roles as both Head of Product for Growth and Head of Engineering for Core Machine Learning helping scale the company to IPO. Most recently, Jon spent time at Facebook leading international engineering organizations in both VR & ML. Jon holds a B.S. in Computer Science with University Honors from Carnegie Mellon University.

Edith Yeung is a General Partner at Race Capital – an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund investing in all things infrastructure. Edith is the seed investor in Solana (has been dubbed one of the best venture investments of all time), Lightning Network, Agora.io, Placer.ai, RapidAPI, and 60 other amazing startups. Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world’s most active early-stage fund and incubator which invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies.

For nearly two decades, Bilal has been investing in founders that want to solve big, important problems with technically ambitious solutions, across industries (enterprise software, deeptech, healthcare, national security, climate) and stages (from seed to growth). He wants to partner with good human beings who are driven to build responsible, ethical companies, and believes technology can not only help address some of the world’s largest problems, but also make humans lives significantly better. Bilal brings 20 years of experience to Board roles. Bilal led Lux’s investments in Applied Intuition, Ironclad, OpenSpace, Nozomi Networks, Commure, Tendo Health, DesktopMetal ($DM), Evolv ($EVLV), Aurora Solar, Kyra Health, Saildrone, Cloaked, Happiest Baby, Zededa, Fiddler, Copia Automation, Kinetic, Nominal, and others. Prior to joining Lux, Bilal was a VC at General Catalyst. Before that he was a technical founder/entrepreneur. Earlier in his career, Bilal was a strategy consultant at BCG. Bilal earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (under Prof. Mario Molina, Nobel laureate, 1995). He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Lemelson Foundation. He is an immigrant citizen in this country, and thankful every day for opportunities that he has been afforded here.

Mohammed is an operator turned investor, boasting leadership roles across both public and private sectors. His background in venture investing, cybersecurity and working with regulators provides a unique blend of expertise and strategic insight.

VC of Blitzscaling AI Fund, Speaker, Event Host in Silicon Valley