Rags joined Aktiia as CEO in 2024. He was previously President and Chief Growth Officer at Butler, and Operating Partner at Hyperplane Venture Capital. Earlier in his career, he held leadership roles at Brightcove, LevRail (acquired by Meta), and Ooyala. Rags holds a BSE in Operations Research and Engineering from Princeton University.

Chris joined NFX as COO in 2024. He previously served as General Counsel and Chief Business Officer at Bonobos (his initial compensation was two pairs of pants per week!), where he contributed to the company’s growth leading up to its acquisition by Walmart. At Walmart eCommerce, he held the position of VP and COO of Digital Consumer Brands. Chris also co-founded Red Swan ventures, which has raised four funds and has invested in some of the most successful consumer companies of the past decades. Earlier in his career, he spent over a decade as a securities lawyer in NYC.

Michele joined Lakera in 2024 as the company’s first Head of People. Prior to joining Lakera, Michele held People and Talent leadership roles at Aalto and Faire, as well as the Head of Talent role at Weebly through the acquisition of the company to Square. Earlier in her career, she co-founded an Executive Recruiting firm, the Coit Group, which she ran for over 5 years.

Scott joined Tecton as Chief Product Officer in 2024. Prior to Tecton, he served as Chief Strategy Officer at Sisense, where he led product strategy and business development initiatives. Before that. Castle was VP Product at Periscope Data, which was eventually acquired by Sisense. Earlier in his career, he held technology leadership positions at Adobe, Electric Cloud, and FileNet.

Eddie joined DispatchHealth in 2022 and served as CTO until 2024. He is a several time founder, and served as CTO and eventually CEO of Workpath, a tech-enabled phlebotomy company, for over 6 years. He is a technical leader with over 20 years of experience in small startups and publicly traded companies.

Ziad is the former Chief Product Officer of Ramp Network. Prior to joining Ramp, Ziad spent nearly nine years at Credit Karma, where he held various leadership positions, including VP of Product Management and GM for International Markets. Earlier in his career, he served as Head of Business Operations and Development at Kiwi, interned at PayPal during his MBA, and started his career at BCG, focusing on strategic initiatives for financial institutions and governmental reforms.

Carlos joined Architect Capital in 2024 as an investor. Prior to Architect, Carlos was a Private Equity Associate within the TMT practice at Silver Lake in San Francisco. Carlos started his career in Tech M&A at Greenhill & Co and worked as an Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley after receiving a BA in Economics from Stanford University.

Amol joined Architect in 2023 as the firm’s first Managing Director, Head of Investor Relations and Capital Markets. Amol formerly led Investor Relations at Figure, a consumer financial solutions platform, as well as led the IR function at Vector Capital for over 6 years. He brings over 25 years of experience in financial services and deep expertise in raising capital within private credit markets.

Miles Green joined Architect Capital in 2023 as the firm’s first Head of Business Development. Prior to his role with Architect, Miles spent 5 years at Circle, working on their ventures team. Miles brought a combination of financial acumen and business operations expertise to the growing fund at Architect.

Patty joined Zocdoc in 2025 as VP of Revenue Operations. Patty joined Zocdoc from Handshake, where she served as the company’s SVP of GTM Strategy & Operations. Prior to Handshake, Patty spent nearly a decade at LinkedIn, progressing through Sales Operations leadership roles ultimately managing a team of over 100. Patty started her career at McKinsey & Co within the Media, Marketing & Sales practice in NYC.

Rob joined Lakera as Head of Product in March of 2025. He has held multiple VP of Product roles within early stage organizations such as Osmind, Windfall, and Treasure Data. He was an early data scientist at Radius Intelligence and has deep experience scaling AI and data focused SaaS products.

Arjun Makherjee is an Angel Investor & Advisor at Vega Financial. Arjun brings a wealth of Engineering Leadership experience at various fintech and crypto startups, including Coinbase. He is currently CTO at Mesh, a global payment network for Crypto.

Ryan Knopf joined Zordi in 2022 as the VP of Engineering and served as CTO from 2023 to 2025. Ryan’s early career and foundational experience is in robotics engineering and was the technical C0-founder and CTO for Root AI, revolutionizing the future of farming. The company was acquired by AppHarvest in 2021 for $60M.

Michael DeCarlo joined Voltron Data in 2023, defining and running operations for Voltron Data’s enterprise product management function. Previously, Michael spent nearly 7 years in product and operations at Mode, and 6 years at Facebook running platform and risk management operations.

Bruce Arthur joined Channel AI as the company's first VP of Engineering in 2024. Earlier in his career, Bruce spent nearly 17 years at Apple where he helped launch the iChat product. Post Apple, Bruce spent several years at WhatsApp, and then went on to lead engineering at Fizz, another social platform that facilitated hyper-local communities on college campuses.

Roman joined Channel AI in 2024. Prior to Channel, Roman led Engineering at Tendercare, a Seed stage, AI powered platform focused on helping families navigate the challenges of family caregiving. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly 12 years at Meta, progressing through various engineering leadership roles.

Jared Flatow is an Angel Investor & Advisor at Vega Financial. Jared is a former Founder and Engineering leader at companies like Compound Labs and now Halliday. He brings depth in the Defi and blockchain ecosystem and is passionate about working at the intersection of AI and Crypto.

Vlad joined Tecton as VP of Engineering in 2025. Prior to Tecton, Vlad served as VP of Engineering at Sentry. Earlier in his career, he was Head of Engineering for HipChat Server and Data Center at Atlassian. Prior to that, he held engineering roles at Microsoft, McAfee, and DocuSign.

Rachelle Kulak joined Tecton in 2025. Prior to that, she spent four years at Confluent, where she progressed from Director to Senior Director of Customer Success and Customer Success Engineering, leading teams across the Americas. Her background also includes leadership roles at Elastic, Plum Organics, and Bloom Energy, and she holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Catherine Leon joined Butter Payments in 2023 as Head of Strategy. At Butter, she quickly expanded her role to include broader responsibilities across business operations and strategic growth initiatives. Prior to Butter, she worked at Novo from 2022 to 2023, focusing on strategic finance, and at Apple from 2019 to 2021, where she specialized in financial analysis and forecasting. Her experience spans both early-stage fintech companies and large-scale technology firms.

Stefaan Arryn joined LegalFly as Head of People in December 2024. Before that, he was VP of People at Silverfin from 2019 to 2024, where he helped scale the company globally and supported its acquisition by Visma. Earlier in his career, he served as Chief People Officer at Ellis from 2017 to 2019 and held HR leadership roles at Securex from 2007 to 2017.

Nishant Arya joined Crusoe as Director of Engineering in 2024. Before that, he spent over a decade at VMware, where he led platform security and cloud initiatives as Director of Engineering. Earlier in his career, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Flexera Software, focusing on software licensing solutions.

Andrew Silard joined OpenStore in 2023 as Head of Consumer Growth, where he leads the team responsible for managing and growing OpenStore's portfolio of Shopify brands. Prior to OpenStore, he was SVP of Marketing at Grove Collaborative for over 7 years, where he built the Consumer Marketing team and served as a member of the executive team from Series A through IPO.