Race Capital Venture Summit 2024 [Invite-Only]

​​We are delighted to have you join our robust agenda focused on conversations about the 2024 state of venture capital, technology, AI, Web3, and the opportunities ahead. This summit will be the most exclusive technology and venture capital event, where the best investors and founders will gather.  

​DATE: April 19, 2024 (Friday)

​TIME: 2:30 pm - 7 pm

​VENUE: The David Brower Center 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

​PARKING: Oxford Garage 2165 Kittredge St, Berkeley, CA 94704

​​Featured Speakers include:

​​Dr William H Janeway Distinguished Professor of the Faculty of Economics of Cambridge University and a senior advisor and managing director of Warburg Pincus

​William H. Janeway has lived a double life of “theorist-practitioner,” according to the legendary economist Hyman Minsky, who first applied that term to him twenty-five years ago. In his role as “practitioner,” Bill Janeway has been an active growth equity investor for more than 40 years. He is a senior advisor and managing director of Warburg Pincus, where he has been responsible for building the information technology investment practice, as well as a director of Magnet Systems and O'Reilly Media. As a “theorist," he is an affiliated member of the Faculty of Economics of Cambridge University, a member of the board of directors of the Social Science Research Council and the Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences, and of the Advisory Board of the Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance. He is a co-founder and member of the Governing Board of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), and a member of the Board of Managers of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF). Following publication in November 2012, his book Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets Speculation and the State (Cambridge University Press) became a classic. The fully revised and updated second edition, Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Reconfiguring the Three-Player Game between Markets, Speculators and the State was published in May 2018.

​Matei Zaharia - Co-founder and CTO of Databricks, Associate Professor at UC Berkeley, and creator of Apache Spark

​Matei Zaharia is an Associate Professor of EECS at Berkeley and a Cofounder and CTO of Databricks. He started the Apache Spark open source project during his PhD at UC Berkeley in 2009, and has worked broadly on other widely used data and AI software, including Delta Lake, MLflow, Dolly and ColBERT. He currently works on a variety of research projects in cloud computing, database management, AI and information retrieval. Matei’s research was recognized through the 2014 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, an NSF CAREER Award, and the US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

​Amr Awadallah - Founder and CEO of Vectara, Founder/ex-CTO Cloudera, ex-VP Google Cloud & Yahoo

​Dr. Amr Awadallah is the CEO and cofounder of Vectara, a company that is revolutionizing how we find meaning across all languages of the world using the latest advances in Large Language Models, Deep Neural Networks, Natural Language Understanding and Information Retrieval.

​​Amr previously served as VP of Developer Relations for Google Cloud. Prior to joining Google in Nov 2019, Amr co-founded Cloudera in 2008 and as Global CTO, he spent 11 years working closely with enterprises around the world on how to ingest and extract value from big data (he famously coined the concept of “schema-on-read vs schema-on-write”).

​He also served as vice president of product intelligence engineering at Yahoo! from 2000-2008. Amr joined Yahoo after they acquired his first startup, Aptivia, in mid-2000 which was a search engine for online product information. Amr received his PhD in EE from Stanford University, and his Bachelor and Master Degrees from Cairo University, Egypt.

​​Alfred Chuang - General Partner at Race Capital, Founder and CEO of BEA Systems

​Alfred Chuang is is the founder and general partner at Race Capital. Recognized by Andreessen Horowitz as the “Silicon Valley CEO’s CEO”, Alfred is an accomplished entrepreneur and venture capitalist.

​​Race Capital is a world class venture capital firm for all things enterprise and software infrastructure with many industry transformational portfolio companies including Databricks, Vectara, Lightning Network, Opaque, Zeet, and many more to come.  Prior to Race, Alfred co-founded and took BEA Systems public (Nasdaq: BEAS).  In addition, Alfred became BEA’s chairman of the board where he remained until BEA was sold to Oracle in 2008 for $8.6B. BEA was the fastest enterprise technology company to reach revenue of USD$1B.

​​Prior to BEA, Alfred spent eight and a half years at Sun Microsystems, Inc. During his tenure, Sun grew from less than 1000 to 60,000 people strong with revenue over $6B.  Alfred led product development, network infrastructure, systems architecture, and expanded Sun’s business to Asia.

​​Alfred’s notable awards include C/F Silicon Valley Philanthropist of the Year, SD Forum Visionary Award, CIO Magazine 20/20 Vision Award Honoree and Community Star from Asian Americans for Community Involvement, eChina Forum Silicon Valley Award Honoree, and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. University of San Francisco President’s Ambassador, UC Davis Outstanding Alumnus Award, UC Davis Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medal.

​​Alfred is an independent advisor at the University of San Francisco School of Engineering, Member of the UC Davis Chancellor’s Board of Advisors, Member of the School of Business Dean’s Committee, City University of Hong Kong, and Member of the School of Engineering Industrial Advisory Committee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

​​Alfred received a B.S. in computer science from the University of San Francisco and a master’s degree in computer science with specialization in distributed data management from the University of California, Davis. Alfred also attended St. Andrews College and Wah Yan College.

​Edith Yeung - General Partner at Race Capital and Advisor to 500 global​

​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.

​​Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia Capital – backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk. She frequently speaks on venture capital, women in leadership, China and Silicon Valley technology and investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, The Information, etc.

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​Steven Chan - Founder and CEO at Goodnotes

​Steven is the founder and CEO of GoodNotes, a top selling note-taking and learning app that won the Apple's “iPad App of the Year” award in 2022. He studied maths and physics in Australia and wrote GoodNotes 1 in his last semester of university. It was a one-person company for five years until the Apple Pencil came out in 2015, and the company has been growing steadily to more than 100 people with offices in London and Hong Kong.

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​Avi Press- Founder and CEO at Scarf

​Avi Press is a developer tool author, functional programming language enthusiast, and founder & CEO of Scarf. Avi loves thinking about and discussing how people can solve problems by more effectively sharing data, and how that applies to building a sustainable open-source ecosystem. He is also a host on the Hacking Open Source Business Podcast.

​​About Race Capital

​​Race Capital is an early-stage venture fund focused on investing in exceptional founders who are building market-transforming companies in the data, enterprise, infrastructure, and fintech sectors. Our team are seed investors in Databricks, Goodnotes, Vectara, Scarf, Opaque Systems and many other great companies. For more information, visit https://race.capital/.