Scouts Directory

Claire Jen

Claire is the assistant general counsel at Rent The Runway. She's held legal positions at Gunderson Dettmer and Sullivan & Cromwell. She has a JD in law from NYU and a BAin economics and political science from Amherst College.

Sarah Krasnik

Sarah is an experienced startup technical operator and is currently the lead data engineer at Perpay Inc. She's a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and Northwestern University/

Oscar Underwood

Oscar is on the investment team at Illuminate Financial focused on sustainrable finance, enterprise, SAAS, and digital asset infrastructure.

Benedikt Von Dosenrode

Benedikt has held various analyst roles at large companies in Copenhagen, Denmark. He's also the head of mentoring at CEMS Entrepreneurs and the project lead on Startup Meet Investors, a startup financing program.

Kim Fairley

Kim has held various consulting roles at Deloitte and other firms.

Matt Hayes

Matt was one of the founders of Leesa Sleep ($125M in 3 years) and a co-founder of The Fascination, a DTC brand marketplace receiving 1,000+ DTC brands partnership applications. He and his co-founder also actively advise and invest in startups.

Akhil Nair

Akhil is a founder at ProspectingPal, a B2B lead-generation startup. He's also the founder of Cofounders Planet.

Jan-Hendrik Bromberger

Jan is a founding partner at Europe + Early, a syndicate focused on European deals as well as a founding partner at DVC syndicate.

Camila Rivas

Camila is an angel investor with Alma Angels with a focus on female founders. She is a graduate of the London School of Economics

Fanxing Xu

Fanxing is a software engineer at Google in Mountain View, Claifornia. She has also worked at Turing AI and the USC Media Communications Lab.

Annie Chen

Annie works at PineBridge Investments and has held various consulting roles with Booz Allen Hamilton Fidelity Investments, and the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has an economics degree from Wellesley College and the MIT Sloan School of Management.

William Hu

William is a deep learning engineer at Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence. He's held roles as a teaching assistant at Carnegie Mellon University and the Ohio Supercomputer Center. He's a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and Ohio State University.

Alisa Chalakhyan

Alisa is a VC with VU Venture Partners and an investment fellow with Rebel One VC. Prior to that she's held various startup roles. She has is an alumnus of the American University of Armenia and Columbia University.

Allison Choi

Allison is a strategy consultant at Deloitte and passionate about unearthing innovations for organisations and harnessing technology for positive social impact.

Albert Fange Xu

Andrew is an MBA candidate at NYU Stern School of Business. He also holds a venture fellow role at UpHonest Capital and DigitalDx Ventures. He's held an investment analyst role at various funds and audit roles at EY and PwC.

Andrew Darcovich

Andrew is the Vice President Business Development at Anthos Capital. Prior to that he's held roles at Goldman Sachs and BMO Nesbitt Burns.

Matthieu Delecourt

Matthieu is chief of staff of the VP Southern Europe at Facebook for the Meta family of apps (Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, & Messenger. He is a private investor in multiple French startups. Prior to that he held finance and consulting roles at EY, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, and Credit Agricole.

Omar Khasawneh

Omar provides financial services to Jordanian startups. He was an assistant finance manager at Oasis500 (a local accelerator). He's a grants supervisor at TTi, an organisation focused on spreading entrepreneurship youth culture in Jordan.

Mariko Kondo

Mariko was born and raised in Silicon Valley and is a founder of a wellbeing business. She has held various communication roles and has an MBA from Boston University as well as a BA from UC Berkeley.

Akshaj Jain

Akshaj is doing his masters in AI & innovation at Carnegie Mellon University. He also has experience in software engineering, deep learning, and investment banking. He has also been the chair at Young Leaders India and a global panel member at the MIT Technology Review.

Daryl Lim

Daryl leads business development at Y Combinator backed Hypotenuse AI. Prior to that he's held various advisory and business development roles

Hafeez Shah

Hafeez is a co-founder of Matterzoo, an Antler-backed startup that brings real world materials into digital designs. Prior to this he held various design and business-development roles. He has degrees from the QUantic School of Business, Nanyang Technological University, and has studied at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Stanley Ong

Stanley is the managing director at Paulton & Company in Manila, Philippines. Prior to that he led an almost 10-year stint as the directory of Mabuhay Capital.

Mike Chang

Mike is an angel investor focused on fintech, real estate tech, and prop-tech. He is also a director at OJO select Network and a co-founder at Calltend. Prior to that Mike sat on the Forbes Technology Council.

Tom van Wees

Tom is the founder of Requr and a managing partner and chief commercial officer at Ginger. Prior to that he has worked in investment banking and M&A ar various firms.

Michael Paschke

Michael is a venture fellow with Alumni Ventures and a patent analyst with a focus on medical devices, chemistry, and biotechnology. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Oxford.

Hessam Mostajabi

Hessam works in marketplace operations at a Sequoia and a16z backed startup matching parents with childcare. He is the founder and board member at Georgia Tech Accel Program. He has held a business development role at The Home Depot and as an investment banking analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. He has a finance degree from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Anele Slater

Anele is the founder of Harambee X, a marketplace that connects customers with designers, fabrics, fashion, and accessories in Cape Town, South Africa. He is also a junior researcher at Human Sciences Research Council conducting policy research focused on the public sector.

Vai Viswanathan

Vai is the founder of Canary Aero and the computer vision lead at Voxel. He was formerly a software engineer at Carnegie Robotics a and a software lead at the AIR lab at Carnegie Mellon University. He has a masters in robotics from CMU and an engineering degree from Harvey Mudd College.

Ginny Watsham

Ginny is a co-founder of VentureESG where she is growing awareness about environmental and governance in the venture world. She is also an investment associate at GMG Ventures and has previously held engineering and consulting roles.

Leon Parsaud

Leon has a PhD in medical science from the University of Toronto and an MSc in molecular physiology. He has held internship various junior positions at private equity and venture funds.

Deep Kakkad

Deep is a venture partner at Conscience VC focusing on consumer and science early-stage startups as well as a partner at Proxy CEO, helping startups grow revenue and secure financing. He was South Asia regional manager for AngelHack.

Kumail Rizvi

Kumail is an investment analyst at Zayn Capital in Toronto and also leads the partnerships team at Venture for Pakistan. He is studying computer science at York University.

Ashwin Ramachandran

Ashwin is the founder of Sapyen, a male fertility startup. He's also an entrepreneur-in-residence at Antler and an alumni of the University of Melbourne.

Kaid Shajrah

Kaid is a validation manager at TrialSpark, a biotechnology startup that is bringing new treatments to patients faster by reimagining the clinical trial. Prior to that Kaid was a research felw at New York University and has a bachelor in petroleum engineering from Louisiana State University.

Sonny Chen

Sonny a senior product designer at OpenSea and has held design roles at Auth0, Spotify, and other startups. He has a business degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Will Jarvis

Will is a researcher in residence at On Deck and host of the Narratives podcast. He's held founding and marketing roles at various startups.

Kenji Narushima

Kenji is chief strategy officer at Carro, a Singapore-based full-stack car ownership marketplace. He has had a long stint at Mitsubishi Corporation as well as multiple advisory and coaching roles. He has an MBA from Tsinghua University and Insead.

Sagar Batchu

Sagar is a member of South Park Commons where he is exploring the future of API development. He is also an engineering mentor for first-time engineering managers at Plato. Prior to that he held various engineering leadership positions. He has a degree in computational physics from Harvey Mudd College.

Max Shannon

Max is a digital asset analyst at CoinShares. He is a graduate of the University of Exeter.

Brandon Johnson

Brandon is a senior solutions architect at Nvidia. He also sits on the board of STEMentors in Silicon Valley. Prior to that he held product and engineering roles at Netapp and other companies. He has a masters of computer science from Northeastern University and a degree in sustainable materials and technology from North Carolina State University.

Hetong Li

Hetong is the co-founder of Relay - a Y Combinator backed startup. Prior to that she was in strategic development at Cash App and head of growth engineering at Instacart. She also has worked at Secret, Twitter, And Amazon.

Austin Hwang

Austin is the co-founder of 500 Global backed LearningPal. He is also a venture associate at Oxford Angel Fund. Prior to that he held various startup positions. He has a master's degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Oxford.

Efrat Gavra

Efrat is an MBA candidate at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Prior to that she held various roles at Aleph, WeWork, and the Israel Defence Forces.

Kalpi Desai

Kalpi is a group product manager at Marqeta. Prior to that she held positions at Goldman Sachs and Capgemini. She has a BSC. in bioengineering and biomedical engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the Wharton School at UPenn.

Uvaraj Gunasekaran

Uvaraj has held a long stint at eBay currently in the position of senior engineering manager

Muhammed Shibin

Muhammed is a global startup analyst at Techstars. Prior t that he has business development role at various startups. He is also active in the startup community having been a Google Developers Group, Startup Weekend, and Startup Digest organiser.

Lily Li

Lily is a a product manager at a Sequoia-backed startup. Prior to that she has held PM roles at Microsoft, Expedia, and Amazon Web Services. She has an MBA from the Wharton School at UPenn and a bachelor of electrical engineering from National Taiwan University

Gogo Rafajlovski

Gogo is COO at the SEEUTechPark in Macedonia and a founder of Startup Macedonia. He has relationships with startups in: Macedonia, Serbia, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.

George Georgallides

George is the founder of Basis Health and an On Deck fellow. Prior to that he held a positions at Merrill Lynch and XO Ventures as well as a Corporal in the Cyprus national guard. He is enrolled in a graduate bioinformatics program at the Stanford University School of Medicine and has a Bachelor of Science from the University of California.

Trey Zhong

Trey is a senior software engineer at Instacart. Prior to that he held roles at Amazon, Oracle, and others. He has an MSc in computer science from USC and a BSc in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas.

Sathvik Boorgu

Sathvik is currently at IIM in Hyderabad India and is active participant in an organisation focused on growing venture and finance education in among Indian students.

Shaurya Gulati

Shaurya is a student at the University of Waterloo where he is an analyst in the student venture fund as well as a venture fellow at a venture capital fund. He has also held campus volunteer roles with Linkedin and Facebook.

Navneeth Ramprasad

Navneeth is a product manager at Netflix and an On Deck Fellow. His previous experience includes PM and engineering roles at Meta, Comscore, Wells Fargo, and Symantec.

Kevin Ohana

Kevin is a Paris-based founder of a YC Fin-Tech startup with experience at UBS, Societe Generale Investment Banking, BPI, and HSBC.

Geoff Song

Geoff is a Sydney-based serial founder with entrepreneurship education from Harvard Business School and General Assembly.

Joaquín Mencía

Joaquin is currently Managing Director, EMEA, at Tillster, a digital ordering app that works with 40 of the top restaurant brands. He teaches growth and internationalisation at IE Business School. Prior to that he held various marketing positions at telecom companies and various startups. He holds an MBA from the University of Toronto and IE Business School.

Sharu Ahmed

Sharu is currently managing ecosystem partnerships at Apple and understands the IoT space deeply. He is a Kellogg School of Management MBA and has a BA from the George Washington University

Rita Vilas-Boas

Rita is a former BioTech researcher with 20 years of professional experience in Africa, China, and Europe including L'Oreal and P&G. She has made angel investments in cosmetics, wellness, and healthtech and is based in Lisbon Portugal.

Neha Jwala

Neha is a product management specialist at Overproof working iwth machine learning and sentiment analysis. Prior to that she held project management and growth marketing roles at Undock, and Overstock. In addition she was a venture associate at Sorenson Impact conducing deal sourcing and early-stage due-diligence. She has a double major in entrepreneurship and psychology from the University of Utah.

Sammy Sameep Bajwa

Sammy is the VP Product at Higher Steaks, a pioneering cell-based cultured meat company. Prior to that he held product and scientist positions at air up in Munich, Tillit in Montreal, and the Kraft Heinz Company in Chicago, and Mondelez in Munich. He He holds a master of science from McGill University with a focus on food engineering.

Hannah Wickes

Hannah is Chief Marketing Officer at Ecosia, a not-for-profit search engine that has planted more than 125 million trees. She is also an advisor at World Fund, Europe's largest climate tech VC. Prior to that she held roles at Trivago and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She holds a bachelor's in journalism and marketing from Queensland University of Technology.

Amad Tala

Amad is an angel investor in many startups including Blue Bottle, Blue Apron, Bellhop, and Memphis Meats. He holds an MBa from the University of Michigan, a Bachelor in Computer Science from Stanford University and a PhD from Oakland University.

Jimcy Daniel

Jimcy leads campus programs and diversity hiring at Nvidia in Bangalore, India. Her prior experience includes talent at Intel Corporation, Infosys, and Cognizant

Kunal Dharmadhikari

Kunal is a product manager at Yahoo with prior experience at Deloitte and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He has a Bachelor of Science with a focus on Bio-enginering and Biomedical engineering from the University of Maryland.

Tommaso Gino

Tommaso is an investor in many European startups as well as an investment associate at Space Holding. He is a graduate of Universita Bocconi and HEC Paris

Philippe Maman

Philippe is a consultant at Accenture Federal Services focused on health and public sector. He has done his education at the University of Maryland and Aix-Marseille University.

Karthik Kasibhatla

Karthik is a product manager specialised in AI/ML, data infra, API's and GTM. in Palo Alto who was president at Columbia Fintech, an MBA graduate from Columbia Business School, and a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology. Karthik also has an interest in Web3.

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