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TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 Oct 28-30San Francisco
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
San Francisco
October 28 – 30, 2024
Disrupt is where you’ll find innovation for every stage of your startup journey. Whether you’re a budding founder with a revolutionary idea, a seasoned startup looking to scale, or an investor seeking the next big thing, Disrupt offers unparalleled resources, connections, and expert insights to propel your venture forward.
From idea to IPO, Disrupt charts startups at every stage on the roadmap to their next breakthrough.
Connecting 10,000 Startup Leaders
Whether you want to meet founders or investors, get advice or find your next gig, Disrupt is your can’t-miss opportunity to connect in-person with the right people to meet your goals.
Building For Every Phase & Stage
Disrupt goes beyond bootstrapped founders. From sessions on scaling teams and acing sales to networking and roundtables with investors and tech leaders, Disrupt is the essential catalyst for growing your business.
Learning From Tech Pioneers
Lean in and learn from seasoned founders and tech titans. At Disrupt, theyโll share their journeys, best practices, how-tos, actionable tips and takeaways to help you avoid pitfalls as you build your own roadmap.
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Casey Aylward joined Accel in 2022 and focuses on early-stage investments in cloud-native infrastructure, open-source software, and security companies. Prior to joining Accel, Casey worked at Costanoa Ventures, an early-stage enterprise fund, where she led and incubated several investments in developer tools, data infrastructure, and security. Before investing, Casey was a software engineer at Pinterest where she worked on commerce, collaboration, and core products. Casey joined Pinterest via an acquisition of a former Accel portfolio company, URX, where she was also a software engineer. Casey graduated from Dartmouth College and is from Palm Beach, FL.
Navin Chaddha is managing partner at Mayfield, an early-stage venture capital firm with a 50+ year track record.
Heather Doshay
Partner, People & Talent, SignalFire
Dr. Heather Doshay is Partner, People + Talent at SignalFire, the first venture capital firm built like a technology company to better solve for the needs of founders. In this role, she uses nearly 20 years of operating and teaching experience to expertly guide startups to success. Prior to SignalFire, Heather held executive operator roles such as VP People at Webflow and RainforestQA, led Candidate Marketplace at Hired, and taught Organizational Leadership at the University of San Francisco.
Denise Dresser is the CEO of Slack. For over 20 years, Denise has spearheaded business transformations within many of the worldโs largest and most innovative companies. At Slack and as a part of Salesforce, Denise leads the team of Slack technologists, product innovators, marketers, communicators, and customer success professionals who are grounded in Slackโs mission to make peopleโs working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. Denise previously served as President of Accelerated Industries Sales at Salesforce, leading the distribution and go-to-market strategy for some of Salesforceโs most strategic accounts and for the companyโs industry-leading cloud solutions. Prior to Salesforce, she was a sales leader at Oracle. Denise graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a member of the Ad Council Board of Directors, a passionate mentor to future women leaders and top talent, and the executive sponsor for ALSForce, a Salesforce equality group focused on raising awareness about ALS. Denise is based in San Francisco and is the mom to two amazing teenage boys.
Andy Dunn is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Dunn co-founded the menswear ecommerce brand Bonobos in 2007, and served as the companyโs CEO for its first ten years, pioneering the digitally native brand movement. Bonobos was the first American brand launched to scale using e-commerce. The companyโs inventory-free store model, called guideshops, redefined what an offline retail experience can be in the digital era. A decade after its founding, Bonobos was acquired for $310 million. In 2022, Dunn published a memoir. In it, he lifts the veil on the mental health demons heโd been privately battling as he built Bonobos. Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind chronicles his journey at the intersection of entrepreneurship and bipolar disorder. Published by Penguin Random House, the book was named one of the most anticipated books of the year by Forbes and was an Amazon Editorโs Choice in 2022. Dunnโs latest venture is called Pie. Currently in beta, the mantra of the company is โmore social, less media.โ As an angel investor and a founder of Red Swan, a seed stage venture capital fund, Dunn has backed over 100 startups, including Warby Parker, Coinbase and Hinge. Dunn chairs the board of Monica + Andy, an organic baby apparel brand, and serves on the board of RaisedBy.Us, a social giving not-for-profit. Dunn received his B.A. at Northwestern University and M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He lives between Chicago and Rio de Janeiro with his wife and their son. He is a Cubs fan.
Rebecca Gevalt
Managing Partner, Dcode Capital
Rebecca Gevalt is Managing Partner at Dcode Capital which invests alongside leading venture firms in commercially-successful, high-growth technology companies that can dramatically improve the US government. The venture fund launched from Dcode, the partners’ affiliated advisory firm based in Washington, DC, that aims to create a technologically superior federal government. Previously as Dcodeโs tech Managing Director, Rebecca built and operated the stage-agnostic accelerator program, scaling venture-backed tech into the federal market. She also launched Dcodeโs government business to teach government stakeholders how to find and contract with nontraditional tech companies. Prior to Dcode, Rebecca worked at the CIA for more than a decade, and for some of those years, she worked with In-Q-Tel to bring novel tech startups into the national security space. She holds a BS from Tulane University.
Topher is the cofounder/CEO of Albedo, the first space company to commercialize the new orbit regime of VLEO (very low earth orbit). Albedo’s satellites will capture imagery at a resolution that today can only be obtained by planes/drones, enabling applications across defense/intelligence, utilities, agriculture, insurance, and energy industries. Prior to Albedo, Topher was an engineer at Lockheed Martin working on national security space programs.
Rebecca Hu
Co-Founder, Glacier
Rebecca is the founder and CEO of Glacier, a recycling startup building AI and robotics to help recyclers, brands, producers, and government agencies measure and improve recovery rates for their highest-priority recycled commodities. Rebecca is a Waste360 40 Under 40 winner and a mentor for the Google Circular Economy Accelerator. She has spoken at several leading industry conferences, including the Plastics Recycling Conference, the National Recycling Congress, the Sustainable Packaging Coalition conference, and the Near Future Summit. Prior to founding Glacier, Rebecca was a consultant at Bain & Company and advisor to several early- and growth-stage startups. Glacier works with several recyclers across the US, major brands including Amazon and Colgate-Palmolive, and government agencies including the City of Phoenix and Michigan Department of Environment. Glacier’s circularity work has been featured in several leading publications, including CBS, NBC, Inc., Axios, and TechCrunch.
Will focuses on early-stage investments in protocol layer infrastructure, DeFi applications, and software products. Before leading investments, Will supported the firmโs research function and built quantitative risk software for the trading business. Prior to joining the firm, he worked on data science for the Ethereum protocol FOAM. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Architecture from Stanford University. Will has led several investments for Galaxy since 2019, including Aleo, Axelar, Celestia, Centrifuge, Gensyn, and Risc Zero.
Renata Quintini
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Renegade Partners
Renata is a venture capitalist, futurist, and co-founder of Renegade Partners. Over the past 15 years, she has invested in founding teams transforming the trajectory of humanity through technology. Prior to launching Renegade with Roseanne Wincek in 2020, Renata specialized in early-stage deep technology investments as a Partner at Lux Capital. She previously served as General Partner at Felicis Ventures, where she worked closely with companies unlocking new markets and business models, including Dollar Shave Club ($1B acquisition by Unilever), Bonobos (acquired by Walmart), Planet (micro satellites), and Cruise Automation ($1B acquisition by GM). Before becoming a venture capitalist, Renata helped manage Stanford Universityโs endowment, investing in both private equity and venture capital funds. She earned her MBA and LL.M (Master of Law in Law, Science, and Technology) degrees from Stanford University, and her JD law degree from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. She is a CFA charterholder. Renata is also a three-time state champion black belt in karate, Bossa Nova guitar player, and Brazilian immigrant.
Naveen Rao, PhD is the Vice President of Generative AI at Databricks and a recognized leader in the generative AI field. Naveen was formerly the CEO and co-founder of MosaicML, an AI company acquired by Databricks in 2023 that enables organizations to develop state-of-the-art large AI models with their own data. Before founding MosaicML, Naveen was the CEO and co-founder of Nervana Systems, the first hardware startup for modern deep learning. After Nervana was acquired by Intel Corporation in 2016, Naveen became Intel’s Head of AI and led Intelโs AI program, which he then grew into its own division. Prior to Nervana, Naveen held various AI research, design, and architecture roles. He holds a PhD in Computational Neuroscience from Brown University and a BSEE in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Duke University.
Even establishes True Anomalyโs strategic objectives and aligns resources for their execution. Prior to co-founding True Anomaly, Even served as an Air Force officer, leading interdisciplinary teams of space operators, scientists, and engineers to develop and evaluate the performance of military systems and tactics designed to protect U.S. and allied space assets. Even is the author of six seminal texts that serve as foundational doctrine and training for U.S. military space operations. He was a major contributing author of the U.S. Space Forceโs inaugural Spacepower: Doctrine for Space Forces. He has held leadership positions in space system developmental and operational test, training, spacecraft operations, and joint fires. In these roles, he provided key insights into the practices needed to successfully deploy space security satellites and supporting infrastructure.
Spenser Skates is the CEO and co-founder of digital analytics leader Amplitude (Nasdaq: AMPL). He co-founded the company in 2012 to help organizations build better products through data, taking the company public via a direct listing in September 2021. Skates previously worked as an algorithmic trader at DRW Trading Group and graduated with a B.S. in Bioengineering from MIT where he was the back-to-back champion of Battlecode, MITโs largest programming competition.
Tamar Yehoshua
Chief Product Officer, Slack
Tamar Yehoshua oversees product strategy and development, design, and research at Slack.
Previously, Tamar was a Vice President at Google holding product and engineering leadership roles on Googleโs most important products, including Search, Identity and Privacy. Prior to that, Tamar was the Vice President of Advertising Technologies at Amazonโs A9.
Tamar has a BA in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MSc in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Elizabeth Yin is a founder and general partner of Hustle Fund, a pre-seed venture capital fund that invests in hilariously early software startups across the U.S., Canada and Southeast Asia.
Natalie Sportelli is a Director at Bullish, an early-stage consumer venture capital firm and brand consultancy based in New York. Before investing at Bullish, she was employee number four at Thingtesting, a discovery and review platform for consumer brands backed by Forerunner Ventures. She has worked in journalism as an Associate Editor at Forbes editing the Under 30 franchise, and also served as a Director at early-stage venture capital firm Lerer Hippeau.
Matt Rogers built the first machine-learning thermostat as the co-founder of Nest. He was previously an engineer at Apple, where he helped build 10 generations of the iPhone and the first iPad. He currently splits his time between Incite.org and a new company that he is developing.
Luis Villa
General Counsel and Co-Founder, Tidelift
Luis Villa is co-founder at Tidelift and board member at Creative Commons and OpenET. During his career, he has been a top open source lawyer, a programmer, and a community leader. In previous roles, he has worked in the legal departments at the Wikimedia Foundation and Mozilla, and served on community-elected boards at the Open Source Initiative and GNOME Foundation.
Elliott Robinson is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners where he leads the growth investment practice and is primarily focused on cloud software investments. He is currently a board member for Coactive AI, Databook, Hinge Health, Hyperscience, Imply Data, Netlify and Render.
Dayna Grayson is Co-founder and General Partner of Construct Capital, an early stage venture firm that invests in extraordinary founders building technology to transform the most foundational industries of our economy from manufacturing to mobility. Dayna was one of the first venture capitalists to turn her attention to transforming these sectors of our economy through software based models. She backed companies creating new advances in manufacturing, automation, and vertically integrated consumer brands. During her time as a partner at NEA (2012-2020), she was the lead investor from the earliest stages and was on the board of companies including Desktop Metal (2015 – today), Tulip (2017 – 2020), Onshape (acqd by PTC) (2013-2019), and Framebridge (acqd by Graham Holdings) (2014-2020) among others. She also led investments in Guideline, Formlabs, Evenly and Neuralmagic. At Construct, along with her co-founder Rachel Holt, Dayna is exclusively focused on early stage investments and investing behind the accelerating changes in foundational industries that together make up half our economyโs GDP are failing to meet customer expectations. Some of their investments include Copia, Veho, Hadrian, The Rounds, and Verve Motion. Dayna started her career in product development and led design efforts at Blackbaud [BLKB], the leading global provider of software to nonprofit organizations, as the company grew to over $130 million in revenue and completed a successful public offering and was an investor at North Bridge Venture Partners from 2007-2012. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia (Systems Engineering) and Harvard Business School, where she serves as a venture partner today.
“Roger is the CEO of Comprehensive.io, a compensation management startup. He is also the creator of Layoffs.fyi.
Previously, Roger co-founded Human Interest, a digital 401(k) provider used by over 20,000 businesses.”
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Join the exclusive StrictlyVC session with Silicon Valley insiders right at Disrupt. Price of admission is included in your Disrupt ticket.
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