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Join Race Capital and our crew on March 15th at 6pm.

Drinks are on us + meet awesome Web3 founders, builders, and investors. Meet us at the double decker bus. 

Web3 Happy Hour

Venue: Sky Bar (20th floor) of the SLS Baha Mar 

Race Capital: Crypto Bahamas Web3 Drinks

Join Race Capital to learn how the current macroeconomic landscape has changed Web2/Web3 VC infrastructure investing in 2022 and beyond. This talk will explore:

 Wednesday, June 1, 2022 (North America) / Thursday June 2, 2022 (Asia)

Register now to secure your spot for this exciting and timely webinar.

Race Capital Fund II Introduction & Web3 Investment Landscape 2022

​Join us for drinks and dinner on June 9th at 6pm! 

Drinks start at 6pm and dinner starts at 7pm. 

Race Capital: Consensus Web3 Dinner 

Ducks x Elixir x Playground @ Breakpoint

: A lot of our founders are in similar situations focusing on sales ($1-$2M ARR before series A) and do not have a dedicated sales team. We are hosting a discussion amogst our founders in similar situations to pull out the best practices, and tops from other founders on how to go about this. 

Will be an emphasis for B2B, Enterprise, Open Source, Developer focus type companies. 

If you had other topics you would like to discuss please add them here: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m3dopTzI-Bpahvq0UBN6W9bIczniwYzjSCfjpwnkuhs/edit

Founder Led Sales Discussion, by Race Capital

We are thrilled to announce that our new office is finally ready and we would like to invite you to join us for our office warming party. After much hard work and effort, we are eager to show off our new space and celebrate with the people who have supported us along the way.

: Race Capital, 437 Lytton Ave #100, Palo Alto, CA

It will be an opportunity to catch up with old friends, make new connections, and of course, have a great time. Light bites and drinks will be served.

Race Capital: Office Warming Happy Hour (Invite Only)

 program is proud to present Race Capital and UC Berkeley's Learn2Launch program are proud to bring founders and funders to UC Berkeley's campus for a half-day program on Generative AI.  

We will bring together a group of founders, engineers, expert thinkers and investors that are focusing on building a brighter future for AI. 

: Room 310, Sutardja Dai Hall, 2594 Hearst Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Harrison Chase is the CEO and co-founder of LangChain, a company formed around the open source Python/Typescript packages that aim to make it easy to develop Language Model applications. Prior to starting LangChain, he led the ML team at Robust Intelligence (an MLOps company focused on testing and validation of machine learning models), led the entity linking team at Kensho (a fintech startup), and studied stats and CS at Harvard.

 - General Partner at Race Capital, Founder and CEO of BEA Systems.

 is is the founder and general partner at Race Capital. Recognized by Andreessen Horowitz as the “

”, 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 FTX, Databricks, 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.

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 

, 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 

. Prior to joining Google in Nov 2019, Amr co-founded 

 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 “

He also served as vice president of product intelligence engineering at 

! 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 

 - Faculty Director at UC Berkeley & founder of the Learn2Launch program.

Founder of the Learn2Launch program, an educator, business leader and entrepreneur, investor and advisor, Mark has spent more than 20 years building businesses at the intersection of technology/clean tech, media, and brands. Mark works with investors, boards, and company leaders to drive growth and restructure businesses that range from early-stage ventures such as clean tech firm ETwater through global enterprises such as Intel, DirecTV and Sony. Mark draws upon those experiences in the classroom at UC Berkeley, where he teaches Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Haas School of Business. He also acts as a mentor and advisor to many students and teams on campus and also at the SkyDeck Berkeley new venture accelerator.

Previously Mark was an Executive Vice President at Sony where he co-founded and built a $150mm consumer products and online commerce division, and was the founding CEO of pioneer online payments company WebOrder which he took though funding, growth and M&A (now part of Motorola). He was a Group VP and General Manager at consumer products company Newell Rubbermaid where he led the $300mm Global Technology Brands group; and earlier in his career was a strategy and M&A consultant with Ernst & Young.

Mark is an alumnus of UC Berkeley, where he earned his B.A. and MBA degrees. A frequent speaker on innovation, entrepreneurship and competitiveness, he has been broadly quoted including in the New York Times, The Economist , The Washington Post, LA Times and USA Today, and appeared in media ranging from Fox News and The Huffington Post to CNN and ABC Radio.

Edith Yeung - General Partner at Race Capital and event organizer and host 

 - 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

, 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 

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, Solana, 

, and many other great companies. For more information, visit 

Generative AI: A conversation at UC Berkeley with founders and funders

THIS EVENT IS NOW AT CAPACITY WITH A MASSIVE WAITLIST! 

Proudly presented by Race Capital and Collision, AI vs Hot Wings Pitch Night will be the hottest night during #SFTechWeek 2023.

The hottest AI founders will pitch their startups over a platter of increasingly spicy chicken wings in front of a group of awesome judges (investors, media and founders).

The winning startup will receive a pair of tickets to attend 

 - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem

AI vs 🔥🍗 Pitch Night Hosted by Race Capital and Collision SF #TechWeek

Learning from the best minds driving the Voice AI revolution. Hear their perspectives on the current state and future potential of the generative AI and voice technology, its impact on industries, and the ethical considerations guiding its development. 

This unique gathering brings together trailblazing founders, innovators, engineers and researchers in the field to share their insights, experiences, and visions for the future. Discover the challenges and opportunities that come with building and scaling Voice AI companies.

Paul Ricci - former Chairman and CEO of Nuance

Paul Ricci retired as Chairman and CEO of Nuance in 2018, roles in which he served for nearly two decades. While at Nuance, Paul transformed the company from a $50 million imaging software publisher into a $2 billion

leading provider of conversational speech and AI solutions, solving complex problems in healthcare, telecommunications, automotive and financial services, with 14,000 employees worldwide. Under Paul’s leadership, Nuance developed a healthcare technology business of $1 billion in annual revenue, created a $500 million global provider of customer self-service solutions and built one of the world’s largest automotive software businesses, now an independent public company, Cerence (NASDAQ: CRNC).

More recently, Paul has served as an advisor to Lightspeed Venture Partners and to Warburg Pincus. He has also served on the boards of Personalis, Qualifacts, Intelligent Medical Objects, SOC Telemed and the Innovation Advisory Board of Mass General Brigham. 

Paul holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Stanford University, where he is on the board of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences.

, based in Mountain View. With over 1B meetings transcribed, 

 is the world’s leading tool for meeting transcription, summarization, and collaboration. Using artificial intelligence, Otter generates real-time automated meeting notes, summaries, and other insights from in-person and virtual meetings - turning meetings into accessible, collaborative, and actionable data that can be shared across teams and organizations. The company is backed by early investors in Google, DeepMind, Zoom, and Tesla. Otter is recognized by The WSJ as one of the Top 10 Generative AI Apps in June 2023.

Previously, Sam was the Co-Founder and CEO of Alohar Mobile Inc. which created the world's first mobile location context platform. Alohar was later successfully acquired by Alibaba. Before that, Sam was the lead of Google Map Location Platform & API for four years.

Sam got his Ph.D in EE from Stanford University, specializing in large scale distributed Internet systems. Sam has over 20 patents.

Chris McCann

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