Executive search and venture investing. We partner with emerging-stage companies — typically post-seed, taking on exec searches and investing at Series A/B. We offer discounted fees in exchange for warrants or discounted pro rata rights in the next round, and treat search as a form of diligence. We will work with later stage as well, […]
Mike Fordyce is currently the Chief Revenue Officer for Placer.ai, a market research platform for the physical world valued at $1.5B. He manages all GTM functions; Sales, SDR, Customer Success, Account Management, and Support. His current team is 350 employees, which represents 50% of Placer employees. Since joining almost three years ago, revenue has grown
Eric Wu is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) on the Go-To-Market Network team, focused on SEO and growth marketing. Before joining a16z, he was director of product at PayPal where he led the shopping experience team. Prior to PayPal’s acquisition of Honey, he served as the vice president of product growth for Honey. Over
Abdul Khan is the Founder and CEO of Som Sleep, the leading sleep recovery product for athletes in the NFL, MLB and NBA. He was most recently founder & CEO of a consumer mobile startup, and co-founder of the YOMYOMF Network, along with Fast Five director Justin Lin. Launched in June 2012 as a partner
I’m currently the Chief Product Officer at The Predictive Index. I joined PI when they acquired my company Charma where I was co-founder and CEO. Previously, I was part of the founding team and President/CMO of NextRoll (fka AdRoll.) Charma’s mission was to help people become great managers by providing a system for one-on-ones, recurring
Jon Rosen is a serial entrepreneur and an original Mucker Capital advisor. He's currently the President and owner of Great Dwellings; a fast growth, tech enabled Airbnb partner, after leading a 2019 Nasdaq IPO as CEO of EVMO. He was a Mentor and Chief Revenue Officer at Involve.ai, a Mucker company that raised $26M in
Dana Stalder is a Silicon Valley based general partner at Matrix Partners, where he invests in early stage software and fintech companies. Dana’s experience cuts across multiple disciplines including sales, marketing, finance, technology and product management at companies such as eBay, Netscape, PayPal and Respond.com. He has managed nimble ventures as well as 2,500-person teams.
I've been involved with startups and growth companies my entire career focused on the GTM ("Go To Market") function, building teams and revenue models that result in exponential growth. My primary vertical is fintech with an expertise in fraud management and payments. I've had four exists over 25 years with the latest, Verifi, selling to
Dr. Irina Kukuyeva is a business operations-focused technology leader who helps companies understand and unlock customer behavior and feedback loops to build scalable, profitable companies with market fit. She has collaborated with over 100 companies and is a frequent speaker on the topic of building and scaling companies with product-led growth and AI, most recently
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Michael McGuire is President of XR Pay, XR’s division dedicated to comprehensive payroll and financial solutions for the advertising and entertainment industries. Michael brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in enterprise hardware, software and services spanning the financial, technology and entertainment industries. He was most recently COO of FilmTrack, the industry leader in
