Modernist VentureClub (MVC) Startup Pitch Night & Founder/Investor Social. Connie Chan (a16z)- Reflekt, Ownlayer, Robin, Generation Lab, Ego
Join us this Thursday for our next Modernist Venture Club Startup Pitch Night! Special guest VC panelist Connie Chan, one of the first 30 employees at a16z, where she became the first internally promoted general partner in the firm's history.
Hear founder pitches from early stage (pre-launch -> seed) Modernist Member founded/funded companies, hear feedback from leading Modernist Member VC's, & (maybe) get a chance to invest in their round(s) through our Modernist SPV's.
Will these follow in the footsteps of some of our other Modernist member-founded companies? Coinbase, Reddit, Youtube, Twitch, OpenDoor & many others
SCHEDULE:
6p- Private member dinner with investors & startups pitching
7p-8:15p | Startup Founder/Investor Reception (private member dinner beforehand with investors & presenting companies)
8:15p-9:30p | Pitches, Feedback, q&a
9:30p-11:30p | Founder/Investor Social
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Companies / Investor
Presenting Companies: all Member Founded
Reflekt Founder/CEO Jared McCluskey
Reflekt: Web3 Roblox Alternative.
Reflekt democratizes game development by providing everything out-of-the-box to create high-quality games with 100% open-source ownership, from game engine to publishing platform in a single downloadable consumer app.
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Ownlayer Co-Founder/CEO Silvia Chen
Ownlayer: Deploy AI with confidence: Ownlayer enables teams to view, understand, and improve the performance of their integrated AI systems
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Robin Founder/CEO Jenny Shao
Robin: your personal AI-powered coach, wellness buddy, side-kick, confidante, companion, superhero
Jenny is a Harvard physician who founded Robin Health to address the increasingly pressing need for accessible mental wellness. By leveraging the power of AI and combining that with her deep clinical understanding, she and her team at Robin is innovating the future of personalized mental wellness.
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Generation Lab Co-Founder/CEO Alina Rui Su
Generation Lab is revolutionizing healthspan extension with our proprietary tool that measures the biological age of 19 organs and delivers personalized longevity interventions
Co-founded by Irina Conboy, a preeminent aging and longevity researcher from UC Berkeley & Inventor of Rejuvenation Plasma Exchange, Generation Lab combines a simple cheek-swab test with proprietary techniques to definitively measure molecular disbalance that indicates aging and risk of disease.
Modernist Venture Club Pitch Night Company Update
Ego Co-Founder/CEO Vish Srinivasan (pitched last year)
'The Future of Agents & Gaming'
Imagine character.ai plus Roblox: Ego is building the first generative ai-powered simulation engine, where non-technical creators can generate realistic characters powered by LLMs, 3D worlds, and interaction code/scripts with just prompts. The future of user-generated simulations, games, and interactive media will be powered by Ego's engine.
YC W24 batch. Raised $6.5m in seed round from Patron, Balaji Srinivasan, Arjun Sethi & more. MVC was one of their earliest investors.
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Investor Panelists:
Connie Chan, one of the first 30 employees at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z, 2011-2024). First internally promoted venture partner. Connie focuses on investing in consumer technology.
https://a16z.com/a-personal-update-connie-chan/
https://a16z.com/connie-chan/ (a bit about Connie from Ben Horowitz)
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Ashish Aggarwal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashishaaggarwal/) is a Partner at Chamaeleon, investing in seed/Series A startups with a focus on deep tech and enterprise. Ashish has 18+ years of experience as an operator, entrepreneur, and investor. Ashish is a Kauffman Fellow (Class 24). Ashish also sits on the board of NextGen Partners (https://nextgenpartners.org/about/) (the largest network of non-GP VCs in the US) and helps expand 256 Network (invite-only GP-LP network) in the US.
Ashish holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and London Business School, a MEM with a focus on design thinking from McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University, and a BE in Information Science from RVCE, India. In his spare time, Ashish loves understanding how to develop inclusive communities, traveling to new countries, and learning about new technologies.
Chamaeleon (https://www.chamaeleon.vc/ (https://www.chamaeleon.vc/)) is an early-stage VC firm that invests in startups in broad consumer, enterprise, and deep-tech categories globally.
Track Record: Our team has invested in many category-defining companies, such as App Annie, DraftKings (IPO: DKNG), Gusto, Outsystems, Robinhood (IPO: HOOD), Rubrik, Virta Health, and Ometria, among many other “household” names.
Mantis Engine - Technological Superiority: Chamaeleon uses a proprietary and distinctive quant & tech augmentation platform - Mantis - for all its core areas, including deal sourcing, due diligence and portfolio management.
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Vishal Gurbuxani: General Partner at Metablock Capital.
Investments include: Instacart, Ethereum, Solana, FwB, FileCoin, and Dr. Chrono. His expertise is within Blockchain, SAAS, Marketplaces, Finding Product Market Fit, Scaling Technology Based Companies, and Investing.
▷ Built a 650-person/35-country organization to be the 1st mobile IPO on NASDAQ.
▷ Co-Founded the world's first and largest mobile ad exchange, reaching 30B+ impressions monthly
▷ Facilitated numerous mergers & acquisitions (M&A) within the marketing space
▷ Investor in Early and Late-State Tech Companies, Crypto, and DAOs