Global Conference 2023 | Startup Grind | 11 April 2023 | Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA

Global 2023 is the ultimate Startup Grind experience: an annual gathering of startup teams from around the world who are building the next big thing. If you are building, working with, or investing in startups, meet us in Silicon Valley.

• Building a startup? Come talk about it.
• Working with startups? Access and collaborate with thousands more.
• Investing in startups? Do your next deal at Global.

2023 Speakers

Ivan Zhao
CEO, Notion

Vinod Khosla
Founder + Managing Director, Khosla Ventures

Allyson Felix
Athlete, Track & Field Olympian; Co-Founder & President, General Partner, Saysh, Crenshaw Ventures

Doug Leone
Partner, Sequoia Capital

Zach Perret
CEO + Founder, Plaid

Anne Wojcicki
CEO, 23andMe

Michael Seibel
Group Partner + Managing Director, Early Stage, Y Combinator

Caryn Marooney
General Partner, Coatue

Mark Suster
Managing Partner, Upfront Ventures

Assaf Rappaport
CEO, Wiz

Hamish McKenzie
Co-Founder + Chief Writing Officer, Substack

Tomer Cohen
Chief Product officer, LinkedIn

Timothy Draper
Founder, Draper Associates

Brett Gibson
Managing Partner, Initialized Capital

Connie Loizos
Silicon Valley Editor/Founder, TechCrunch/StrictlyVC

Niko Bonatsos
Managing Director, General Catalyst

Elad Gil
Entrepreneur + Author, Self

Connie Chan
General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Mike Vernal
Partner, Sequoia Capital

Chetan Puttagunta
General Partner, Benchmark

Daphne Koller
CEO + Founder, insitro

Ryan Neu
CEO + Co-Founder, Vendr

Barr Moses
CEO + Co-Founder, Monte Carlo

Christina Cacioppo
Co-Founder + CEO, Vanta

Dalton Caldwell
Managing Director, Architect + Group Partner, Y Combinator

Maelle Gavet
CEO, Techstars

Omar Johnson
CEO, OPUS Intelligence Labs

Andrew Reed
Partner, Sequoia Capital

Anthony Soohoo
Former EVP, Home Division, Walmart Inc.

Kim Mai Cutler
Partner, Initialized Capital

Kobie Fuller
General Partner, Upfront Ventures

Crystal Huang
Partner, GV

Talia Goldberg
Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners

Wes Felix
Founder + CEO, Co-Founder + CEO, General Partner, Evolve Management Agency, Saysh, Crenshaw Ventures

Christine Esserman
Partner, Accel

Casey Winters
Advisor; Reforge Partner, Eventbrite, Whatnot

Sarika Garg
CEO + Co-Founder, Cacheflow

Derek Andersen
CEO + Co-founder, Bevy, Startup Grind

Venkat Thiruvengadam
CEO + Founder, DuploCloud

Laura Behrens Wu
CEO + Co-Founder, Shippo

Vishal Sunak
CEO + Co-Founder, LinkSquares

Mark Goldberg
Partner, Index Ventures

Steve Loughlin
Partner, Accel

Leif Abraham
Co-CEO, Public

Jamin Ball
Partner, Altimeter

Robert Brunner
Partner + Founder, Ammunition

Steph Choo
Partner, Portage

Cristina Apple Georgoulakis
Portfolio + Founder Outcomes Partner, Seven Seven Six

Gil Feig
Co-Founder, Merge

Harry McCracken
Global Technology Editor, Fast Company

Dusan Perovic
Partner, Two Sigma Ventures

Joanna Lord
Executive in Residence, Reforge

Alison Lange Engel
Partner, Greycroft

Anna Barber
Partner, M13

Gautam Gupta
General Partner, TCV

Boris Logvinksy
VP of Product, Vanta

Denise Hemke
Chief Product Officer, Checkr

Frances Schwiep
Partner, Two Sigma Ventures

Amir Tarighat
CEO + Co-Founder, Agency

Kaustubh Pandya
Partner, Brick & Mortar Ventures

Asra Nadeem
CEO, Draper University

Andrew Powell
Chief Business Officer, OAK’S LAB

Rebecca Kacaba
CEO + Co-Founder, DealMaker

Shensi Ding
Co-Founder, Merge

Simon Hudson
CEO + Founder, Cheeze

Nnamdi Okike
Managing Partner, 645 Ventures

Somya Kapoor
CEO + Founder, TheLoops

Ali Moiz
Founder, Stonks

Clint Hill
Head of Enterprise, Architecture & Security, American Express Business Blueprint & Banking

George Mathew
Managing Director, Insight Partners

Josh Constine
Venture Partner, SignalFire

Radhika Malik
Investor, Dell Technologies Capital

Yana Welinder
CEO + Co-Founder, Kraftful

Kevin Dunlap
Managing Partner, Calibrate Ventures

Yancey Spruill
CEO, DigitalOcean

Chris Kauffman
Investing Partner, General Catalyst

Grant Canary
CEO, Mast Reforestation

Katelin Holloway
Founding Partner, Seven Seven Six

Dheeraj Pandey
CEO + Founder, DevRev

Kamran Ansari
Former Board Partner at Greycroft, Former Head of Corporate Development & Strategy at Pinterest, Venture Investor

Robbie Randall
Sr. Partner Development Manager, Intuit QuickBooks

Emily Koster
Director of Communications, Samsung Next

Jordan Nanos
Machine Learning Architect, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Katherine Tuluzova
EVP Americas, Sigma Software

Rakesh Yadav
CEO, Aidaptive

Wen Zhang
CEO + Founder, INNW Institute

Nikola Pavesic
Director of Startups, Infobip

Rob Biederman
Managing Partner, Asymmetric

Leigh Marie Braswell
Principal, Founders Fund

2023 Sponsors

GLOBAL SPONSOR:
• Novel Capital

PRESENTING:
• Dell Technologies
• American Express
• Duplo Cloud

GOLD:
• Google Cloud
• Vanta
• Intuit Quickbooks
• Deal Maker
• DevRev
• Digital Ocean
• Samsung Next
• Maryland Department of Commerce
• Velocity Global
• Sigma Software

SILVER:
• Verisign
• Vendr
• Oak's Lab
• Zendesk Startups
• Microsoft Teams
• VIB
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Draper University
• Infobip
• Figure Equity Solutions

BRONZE:
• HubSpot for Startups
• Delighted
• CYVATAR
• Tech Domains
• Mercury