Ellie Wheeler

Ellie joined Greycroft in 2011 and is a partner based in New York City. She leads the health tech team and invests across consumer and enterprise models within the sector.Ellie’s active investments include Baublebar, Boulder Care, Cometeer, Eden Health, Elevate, Expel, Extra, ianacare, Octave, RightMove, and Thirty Madison. Her notable exits include NuORDER (acquired by Lightspeed), […]

Candice Morgan

Candice Morgan has dedicated her career to helping companies attract and grow talent and global market segments of the coming generations. As the first-ever equity, diversity, and inclusion partner in the venture capital industry, Candice focuses on creating inclusive strategies for GV and its portfolio companies. Before joining GV, Candice was the first head of […]

Barry Eggers

A founding partner at Lightspeed, Barry is something of a Silicon Valley pioneer. After all, as a native of Sunnyvale, he remembers when the area was filled not with startups but with cherry and apricot orchards. And although he attended undergrad at UCLA, he soon returned to the valley to earn an MBA at Stanford. […]

Nicole J. Walker

Nicole has nearly 30 years of experience as both an operator and an investor within the healthcare space. Trained as a mechanical engineer, with experience working on the development, manufacturing, and marketing of life-saving devices at Guidant and Abbott, Nicole brings a broad company-building mindset when partnering with entrepreneurs and investors. Most recently, Nicole was […]

Elliott Robinson

Elliott Robinson is a partner in the San Francisco office where he focuses primarily on growth investments in SaaS and cloud companies. He co-authors Bessemer’s iconic 10 Laws of Cloud Computing and the annual State of the Cloud Report. He looks to partner with companies and management teams that are defining their market category while […]

Kate Mitchell

Kate is a co-founder of Scale Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley-based firm that invests in software companies creating the future of work. She and the ScaleVP team have backed successful, high growth companies, including ExactTarget (Salesforce), Hubspot (NYSE: HUBS); Box (NYSE: BOX), DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU); Bill.com (NYSE: BILL), WalkMe, and JFrog that modernize the way […]

Courtney McCrea

Courtney is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Recast Capital, a platform supporting and investing in emerging managers in venture. The Recast team believes that emerging managers, particularly those with diverse partnerships, represent both an underserved market and overlooked business opportunity, and is taking a new approach to meeting the need. Courtney is also a […]

Charles Hudson

Charles Hudson is the Managing Partner and Founder of Precursor Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in the first institutional round of investment for the most promising software and hardware companies. Prior to founding Precursor Ventures, Charles was a Partner at SoftTech VC. In this role, he focused on identifying investment opportunities […]

Samara Hernandez

Samara is the Founding Partner of an institutionally-backed pre-seed stage fund, Chingona Ventures, focusing on investing in tech and tech-enabled companies across the U.S. Before this, she was an investor at MATH Venture Partners; led new investment review, diligence, and execution. Before VC, she worked at Goldman Sachs, continually ranked top 5 in selling financial […]

Jennifer Friel Goldstein

Jennifer Friel Goldstein is the managing partner for Life Science and Healthcare Practice at SVB Capital and is a founding member of Venture Forward, a nonprofit that provides resources and education toward developing a diverse, equitable and inclusive venture capital (VC) ecosystem. She is also an advisory board member of Springboard Enterprises and the Women’s Health Innovation Coalition. Jennifer has more than 20 […]

Bobby Franklin

Bobby Franklin is the President & CEO of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), the venture community’s preeminent trade association focused on empowering the next generation of transformative American companies. Based in Washington, D.C., with offices in Palo Alto and San Francisco, NVCA acts as the voice of the U.S. venture capital and startup community […]

Rhianon Anderson

Rhianon Anderson is the Senior Programs Director for Venture Forward. She focuses on efforts that break down barriers to access and participation in the VC ecosystem, expand diversity, equity and inclusion, and provide members of the VC community support and resources to help them succeed. Before joining Venture Forward, Rhianon spent several years with Girls […]

Maryam Haque

Maryam is the Executive Director of Venture Forward, where she leads the organization in its mission to shape the future of venture capital. She previously served as SVP of Industry Advancement at the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), where she incubated several Venture Forward initiatives. At NVCA, she led research and data, education, and diversity […]