Join us at Founders Inc. @ Fort Mason on April 21st at 5:30pm.
The panel will explore how investment strategies are evolving in response to AI's rapid advancement, what does sustainable value creation look like beyond the hype cycle, and what are the practical challenges you're seeing of building startups in the space today.
Panelists include:
Mayra Ceja - VP Startup Banking @ JP Morgan
Mayra supports early-stage startups at J.P. Morgan. With an MBA from Wharton and BA from Princeton, her past experience includes launching a venture fund from zero to 21 investments and leading sales/GTM at HubSpot.
Tess Hau - GP @ Tess Ventures & Co-founder of Joinable.ai
Tess is Founder and General Partner of Tess Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture fund investing globally across AI, SaaS, gaming, machine learning and other frontier sectors. She is also the co founder of Joinable AI, a privacy first decentralized AI platform for enterprises and communities.
Mariane Bekker - Managing Partner @ Founders Bay
With over a decade of experience as a tech executive, Mariane is currently the Managing Partner at Founders Bay, a premier venture studio for AI startups in the Bay Area, where she connects a community of 45,000 founders and VCs through events, virtual workshops, and fundraising resources.
Olivia Higgs - Founder @ Stealth Company
Olivia is a multi-time founder across AI, ML, consumer social and had a brief stint in food tech. She’s trained the US Marine Corps, scaled consumer apps to 250k active users, mentored for Founder Institute and given a TEDx in 2018 on the impact of AI on society. She is now building something new around behavior simulation.
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