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StrictlyVC events deliver exclusive insider content from Silicon Valley and the global venture scene. If you’re an investor looking to mingle with your peers and watch some killer content, this event is for you. Get the inside scoop directly from sources you can trust. Previous events included interviews with Sam Altman (OpenAI), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), Katie Haun (Haun Ventures), Hans Tung (GGV Capital) and many more!
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Sam Altman
Co-Founder & CEOOpenAI
TS Anil
CEOMonzo Bank
Baiju Bhatt
FounderAetherflux
Navin Chaddha
Managing PartnerMayfield
Jay Graber
CEOBluesky Social
Kirsten Green
Founding PartnerForerunner
Sarah Guo
Founder and Managing PartnerConviction
Katie Haun
Founder & CEOHaun Ventures
Daniel Lurie
Mayor of San FranciscoCity and County of San Francisco
With over 25 years of experience in retail banking—10 of those in global roles—Monzo’s new CEO brings a wealth of expertise from leadership positions at Visa, Standard Chartered, Citigroup, and Capital One. His career has taken him around the world, including stints in the US, Singapore, Canada, Japan, and India. He has deep experience in launching new products, developing innovative payment technologies, and steering established businesses toward new growth opportunities.
Baiju Bhatt is the Founder and CEO of Aetherflux, a U.S. aerospace company delivering energy to planet Earth with space solar power. He Co-Founded Robinhood in 2013 to democratize finance for all. Today, Robinhood is a publicly-traded company with more than 20 million customers, and he still serves on the Board. Mr. Bhatt holds a B.S. in Physics and an M.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University.
Navin leads Mayfield as Managing Partner. Under his leadership, Mayfield has raised eight U.S. funds and guided over 80 companies to positive outcomes. He has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and has ranked on the Forbes Midas List of Top 100 Tech Investors seventeen times, including being named in the Top Five in 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Navin’s investments have created over $120 billion in equity value and over 40,000 jobs.
During his venture capital career, Navin has invested in over 60 companies, of which 18 have gone public and 27 have been acquired. Navin was one of the earliest Silicon Valley investors to leverage the promise of tech in India. He is Vice Chair of the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund and advisor to Neythri.org.
Navin is an active philanthropist dedicated to supporting education, expanding opportunities for underrepresented communities, and addressing food insecurity.
As an entrepreneur, Navin has co-founded or led three startups including VXtreme: a streaming media platform, acquired by Microsoft to become Windows Media; Rivio/CPA.com: a SaaS provider for small businesses, and iBeam Broadcasting (NASDAQ:IBEM): a streaming media content delivery network. Navin holds an MS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi, where he was honored with the distinguished IIT Alumni Award.
Jay Graber is the CEO of Bluesky, a public benefit company building an open social network. Previously, she built Happening, a site for social events, and developed Zcash, a privacy-preserving cryptocurrency. She has also worked as an organizer at digital rights nonprofits.
Kirsten Green is the Founder and Managing Partner of Forerunner, the consumer-driven venture capital partnering with ambitious founders and companies redefining industries.
Combining an unconventional and powerful blend of professional experiences and acquired investment expertise, Kirsten launched San Francisco-based Forerunner in 2012, and has since led the firm to raise nearly $3 billion in assets under management. Kirsten’s 25+ years of evaluation and investment success stem from a combination of product savvy, consumer insight, research, and a thesis-driven approach that has been the basis of all her investments — from pre-revenue startups to multi-billion-dollar enterprises. Her early investor and board member roles span Faire, Hims&Hers, Chime, Ritual, Daydream, Decagon, Warby Parker, Wonder, and Balance, among others.
She is also on the Board of the National Venture Capital Association, and has been part of both the Forbes Midas List and Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women List for the past nine years.
Sarah Guo is the Founder and Managing Partner at Conviction, a venture capital firm founded in 2022 to invest in intelligent software, or “Software 3.0.” Prior, she spent a decade as a General Partner at Greylock Partners. She has been an early investor or advisor to 40+ companies in software, fintech, security, infrastructure, fundamental research, and AI-native applications. Sarah is from Wisconsin, has four degrees from University of Pennsylvania, and lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two daughters. She co-hosts the AI podcast “No Priors” with Elad Gil
Katie is the Founder and CEO of Haun Ventures where she and the team raised a $500 million early stage fund and a $1 billion acceleration fund to invest in the future of web3. Previously, Katie was a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) where she co-led the firm’s three crypto funds. She joined in June 2018 as its eleventh general partner and first female general partner. Prior to a16z, Katie spent a decade as a federal prosecutor focusing on fraud, cyber, and corporate crime alongside agencies including the SEC, FBI, and Treasury. She created the government’s first cryptocurrency task force and led investigations into the Mt. Gox hack and the corrupt agents on the Silk Road task force. While with the U.S. Department of Justice, Katie prosecuted RICO murders, organized crime, public corruption, gangs, and money laundering. She also held senior policy positions at Justice Department headquarters in both the National Security Division and Attorney General’s office where her portfolio included antitrust, tax, and national security. While in the private sector, Katie has testified before both the House and Senate on the intersection of technology and regulation. She has taught a course on crypto at Stanford Business School and on cybercrime at Stanford Law School. Katie clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and is an honors graduate of Stanford Law School. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Katie also served as a member of the board of directors of Coinbase from 2017 to 2024.
Daniel Lurie was born and raised in San Francisco. Daniel founded Tipping Point Community in 2005. Under his direction as CEO, Tipping Point has raised over $500 million to help house, employ, educate and support hundreds of thousands of Bay Area families. Former Mayor Ed Lee selected Daniel in 2013 to lead the San Francisco Bay Area Super Bowl 50 Host Committee, an effort that brought over $240 million in economic impact to the region. Following
the devastating fires in the North Bay in 2017, Daniel and Tipping Point partnered with 90 Bay Area business and community leaders to organize Band Together – a benefit concert that raised $17 million for those hardest hit by the deadly fires. In total, Tipping Point’s Emergency Fire Relief Fund raised over $34 million.
He is a graduate of Duke University and obtained his Master’s in Public Policy at UC Berkeley. He lives in the City with his wife Becca and two school-aged children.
Ethan Thornton is the CEO and founder of Mach Industries, a next-generation defense technology and manufacturing company. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before launching Mach in 2023. Thornton’s ultimate goal is to create decentralized strategic capabilities that guarantee the defense of freedom worldwide.
I hold a National Science Olympiad championship for my Rube Goldberg device, a machine designed to solve a simple problem with a series of complex cause-effect mechanics. I’m fascinated by how things work.
An early twitter executive with more than two decades in venture capital and technology companies, Elizabeth is an investor, advisor, and entrepreneur. At Scribble, she works closely with Whatnot, Certn, Titan, Luminai, and Checkmate, among many others. Her unmatched network gives her portfolio companies access to tech’s most sought-after operators, executives, and investors. In addition, she partners with Scribble founders on hiring, fundraising construction, GTM, product, and company culture.
Elizabeth believes that passion and pushing boundaries drive success, whether investing in founders with world-changing ideas, transforming a startup into a Fortune 500 company, or running ultramarathons. She is a super-connector, and her infectious enthusiasm leaves everyone more energetic and inspired.
Prior to founding Scribble Ventures, Elizabeth spent four years as a Managing Director at 137 Ventures focused on late-stage secondary opportunities. She was a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz as the firm was scaling, and had the fortune of being at Twitter as it grew from 50 to 3,000 people. She has also worked as an investor at IVP, Menlo Ventures, and Radar Partners. Through this time she’s made over 100 angel investments across all stages, including Slack, SpaceX, Figma, Coinbase, Superplastic, Gusto, Tipalti, Envoy, Daily.co, Carta and more.
Elizabeth graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Economics and a Masters in Engineering. In the years since, she has taught classes at Stanford in the engineering department, Graduate School of Business, and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.
She is the founder of Paperwheel, a design and letterpress company. There are no cars in her garage; just a 5,000 lb 1923 Chandler & Price letterpress! Staying true to her philosophy of living a life full of passion and pushing limits, Elizabeth is also a competitive ultra-marathon runner, and has run more than 60 marathons. She’s a mom to three LEGO-obsessed kids, and is happily married to Kevin Weil who is Chief Product Officer at OpenAI.
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