Bob Rosin is the Managing Partner at Antler US, a global early-stage venture capital firm with over $1B in assets under management and investments in more than 1,500 companies. A three-time startup founder who raised over $130M from top investors like Sequoia and Marc Andreessen, he led his third venture, Qik, to a $150M acquisition by Skype, followed by roles as VP of Business Development at Skype and VP & GM at Microsoft after its $8.5B sale. Rosin later drove partnerships at LinkedIn for 4.5 years as part of the product leadership team, headed partnerships at Stripe, served as Partner at Defy.vc from 2020-2025, and joined Antler in 2025 to focus on pre-seed investments, co-founder matching, and scaling ideation-stage startups. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Cornell University.Topics:

• From repeat founder to investor: lessons from building and exiting multiple startups
• How Antler finds, matches, and backs founders at the idea stage
• What pre-seed investors actually look for before there’s a product or traction

#VentureCapital #PreSeed #StartupFounders #EarlyStageVC #Entrepreneurship

Hemal Shah is a seasoned product leader currently serving as Product lead at OpenAI, where he focuses on integrating ChatGPT into workplace tools like Slack and developing features such as company knowledge powered by GPT-5. Previously, he was VP of Product, Head of Growth, Monetization & Expansion at Atlassian, Chief Product Officer at Root Inc. (NASDAQ: ROOT), and held product roles at Instagram (co-creator of Threads and DMs), Meta (consumer wallet & identity), and Twitter (Developer Tools like Crashlytics).

• From consumer social products to enterprise AI: lessons building at Instagram, Atlassian, and OpenAI
• How ChatGPT is becoming a core workplace tool—and what “AI-native productivity” really means
• Product leadership at scale: monetization, growth, and decision-making inside category-defining companies

#ProductLeadership #AIatWork #OpenAI #EnterpriseAI #TechLeadership

Jim Tananbaum is the founder and CEO of Foresite Capital, a U.S.-focused healthcare investment firm he launched in 2011 that manages approximately $3.5 billion in assets. With a career spanning three decades, Jim has partnered with some of the fastest-growing and most influential healthcare companies of their generation, including 10x Genomics, Amerigroup, and Jazz Pharmaceuticals. A lifelong student of both data science and medicine, his vision for Foresite Capital is to sit at the intersection of biology, technology, and data to support entrepreneurs building transformative healthcare solutions. Earlier in his career, he co-founded GelTex Pharmaceuticals and Theravance, companies that together delivered blockbuster drugs and multibillion-dollar market capitalizations. Jim holds a BS and BSEE from Yale, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was also part of the Harvard/MIT HST Program.Topics:

• Recent $900M fundraise and bets on Alumis, Latigo Biotherapeutics, Xaira Therapeutics
• 50+ IPOs, 47 public listings, 58 FDA approvals across portfolio
• Foresite Labs incubating ML-powered healthcare startups

#BiotechInvesting #AIBiotech #ForesiteCapital #JimTananbaum #HealthcareInnovation

Ashley Smith is the GP and Founder of Vermilion Cliffs Ventures, where she backs early-stage technical founders building in AI, developer tools, data, security, and infrastructure. Previously, she served as Global Vice President of Marketing at GitHub through its acquisition by Microsoft, Chief Marketing Officer at GitLab, and Venture Partner at OpenView. Her extensive go-to-market leadership at developer-first companies like Twilio and Facebook’s Parse team informs her focus on founder-led growth and durable AI infrastructure products.Topics:

• AI Infrastructure Trends
• Founder-Led Go-to-Market
• Building High-Performing Teams

#VC #AIVentures #DevTools #AIInfra #FounderStories #StartupInvesting

Philip Rathle is the Chief Technology Officer of Neo4j, where he has spent more than a decade helping transform the company from a niche on‑premise database into a leading global graph database and analytics platform used in modern AI and data-intensive applications. With over 25 years in enterprise data, he previously led Neo4j’s product organization, growing ARR from under seven figures to well into nine figures and expanding the portfolio into multiple cloud product lines, while building and leading large global product and engineering teams. Earlier in his career, Philip co-founded a customer data integration startup and held product and consulting roles at Embarcadero, Accenture, and Tanning Technology, giving him deep experience in databases, data modeling, and large-scale information systems. A Northwestern-trained engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he is also known for thought leadership around graph technology, GenAI, and GraphRAG, including authoring “The GraphRAG Manifesto” and championing industry standards such as ISO GQL.Topics:

• From On-Prem to Cloud: Scaling Neo4j’s Graph Database Business
• GraphRAG in Practice: How Graphs Supercharge GenAI and RAG Systems
• 25 Years in Data: What Actually Changed (and What Hasn’t)

#GraphRAG #Neo4j #GraphDB #GenAI #AIDatabases #VentureAI

Igor Taber is the founder and General Partner of Cortical Ventures, an early-stage AI-focused venture fund launched in 2021 to invent, incubate, and invest in companies driving the AI revolution. Previously, he served as SVP of Corporate Development at DataRobot, where he shaped growth strategy, raised over $500 million in capital, and managed M&A and partnerships; before that, as Managing Director at Intel Capital, he led the AI and data investment practice, funding over 20 organizations and earning recognition as a top AI investor. A Wharton MBA graduate based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Taber remains an active angel investor, advisor, and board member for AI startups like Weaviate, Immerok, and OthersideAI.Topics:

• Inventing AI Leaders: From Idea to Series A
• "$500M Raised: Scaling AI via M&A Mastery
• Corporate VC Edge: AI Strategy Wins

#AICapital #VentureAI #CorticalVentures #AIInvesting #StartupFunding #DataRobot #IntelCapital

Dave Steer is Chief Marketing Officer at Webflow, where he leads global marketing to scale the company’s enterprise growth and AI-powered digital experience strategy. A veteran marketing leader, he brings two decades of experience across B2C, B2B, and developer marketing, with prior senior roles at GitLab, Cloudflare, Facebook, Twitter, PayPal, eBay, TRUSTe, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Known for unifying story, strategy, and go-to-market execution, he has led platform positioning, major AI product launches, and customer advocacy and community programs while managing large cross-functional teams. Steer is also a recognized mentor and marketing thought leader who frequently speaks on topics such as AI and the future of product marketing and building trust in marketing. Topics:

• How AI is reshaping product marketing and go-to-market strategy
• Building a unified brand story across B2B, B2C, and developer audiences
• Lessons from leading marketing at hyper-growth companies (Facebook, Twitter, Cloudflare, GitLab, Webflow)

#Webflow #CMO #ProductMarketing #AIMarketing #GoToMarket #MarketingLeadership #B2BGrowth #DeveloperMarketing #BrandStrategy #Hypergrowth

Flaviu Radulescu and Ioana Hreninciuc are the co-founders of Runware, an AI infrastructure company focused on making high-performance generative media dramatically more affordable and accessible for developers and product teams worldwide. Drawing on over two decades of Flaviu’s experience building bare-metal data clusters and custom hardware, Runware designs its own GPU and networking systems plus the Sonic Inference Engine, enabling up to 10x cost savings and order‑of‑magnitude speedups for visual and media AI workloads. As business and product leader, Ioana has helped steer Runware from an early image-generation prototype through major funding rounds and into a scalable AI media platform, partnering with leading investors and powering billions of creations while keeping AI inference costs low enough for companies of all sizes.Topics:

• Why “affordable AI” is a defensible wedge in the crowded AI infra market
• How Runware achieved 5–10x cost and speed gains by designing its own hardware + inference stack
• The future of generative media: real-time, multimodal, and as cheap as API calls today

#AIInfra #GenerativeMedia #StartupFounders #DeepTech #AI2026