Startup Grind Global Conference 2021 | Startup Grind | 22 February 2021 | Virtual Event

Nothing can replace human interaction, but the power of online allows us to bring the education, access, opportunities and inspiration of Startup Grind’s Global Conference to startups around the world. Our new virtual and choose-what-you-pay model makes this year’s event more accessible for startups globally than ever before. Join us and 15,000 others for conversation and collaboration around tech, startups, and the future of innovation.

Startup Grind focuses on helping startups and innovative teams learn, grow, and scale in today's evolving tech ecosystem.

Topics:
• VC + Funding
• Innovators + Disruptors
• Tech for Good
• Sales + Partnerships
• Marketing
• Future of Work
• Product + Engineering

2021 Speakers

Tamar Yehoshua
Chief Product Officer, Slack

Michelle Zatlyn
Co-founder, President + COO, Cloudflare

Noah Kerner
CEO, Acorns

Benoit Dageville
Co-founder + President of Product, Snowflake

Lucy Liu
Co-founder + President, Airwallex

Parker Conrad
Co-founder + CEO, Rippling

Markus Villig
Founder + CEO, Bolt

Henry Ward
CEO, Carta

Hayley Barna
Partner, First Round Capital

Prakash Janakiraman
Co-Founder + Chief Architect, Nextdoor

Eren Bali
Co-founder + CEO, Carbon Health

Emily Melton
Co-founder + Partner, Threshold

Hernan Kazah
Co-founder + Managing Partner, Kaszek Ventures

Shishir Mehrotra
Co-founder + CEO, Coda

Jean-Denis Greze
Head of Engineering, Plaid

Alda Leu Dennis
General Partner, Initialized Capital

Ali Parsa
CEO + Founder, Babylon

Claire Diaz-Ortiz
Partner, Magma Partners

Songe LaRon
Co-founder + CEO, Squire

Michele Romanow
Co-founder + President, Clearbanc

Alvin Graylin
President, HTC China

Amandine Lobelle
Head of Business Operations, Paystack

George Arison
Co-Founder + Co-CEO, Shift

Jaime Schmidt
Founder, Investor + Author, Schmidt's Naturals/Color Capital

Anis Uzzaman
General Partner + CEO, Pegasus Tech Ventures

Aviad Pinkovezky
Chief Product Officer, Hippo

Harry Stebbings
Founder, The Twenty Minute VC

Alexa von Tobel
Founder + Managing Partner, Inspired Capital

Sujeet Kumar
Co-founder, udaan

KR Sridhar
CEO, Founder + Chairman, Bloom Energy

Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau
CEO + Publisher, MIT Technology Review

Gary Stewart
Founder + CEO, FounderTribes

Alexi Robichaux
Co-founder + CEO, BetterUp

Maya Horgan Famodu
Founder + MD, Ingressive Capital

Kamran Elahian
Founder + Chairman, Global Innovation Catalyst

Áine Kerr
Co-Founder + COO, Kinzen

Sriram Krishnan
General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Sonja Gittens Ottley
Head of Diversity + Inclusion, Asana

Tien Tzuo
Founder + CEO, Zuora

Laura Holliday
Marketing Expert, Depop

Byron Deeter
Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners

Liana Douillet Guzmán
CMO, Skillshare

Jordan Angelos
Head of M&A + Investing, Stripe

Courtney McKlveen
Group VP, Head of Sales, Convoy

Stephen McIntyre
Founding Partner, Frontline Ventures

Sarah Shewey
Founder + CEO, Happily

Vieje Piauwasdy
Director of Equity Strategy, Secfi

Allison Robinson
Founder + CEO, The Mom Project

Albrey Brown
Diversity, Equity, + Inclusion, Airtable

Mae Karwowski
Founder + CEO, Obviously

Javier Mata
Founder + CEO, Yalochat

Luke Anear
Founder + CEO, SafetyCulture

Alexa Hall
Program Manager, Google

Chris Giovanniello
Co-Founder + SVP, Products + Marketing, Menlo Micro

Shuo Wang
Co-Founder + Chief Revenue Officer, Deel

Job van der Voort
CEO, Remote

Christina Cacioppo
Co-founder + CEO, Vanta

Dan DeFrancesco
Associate Finance Editor, Business Insider

Aaron Jacobson
Partner, New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

Ashley Brucker-Stepien
VP, Marketing, Webflow

Eric Rea
Co-founder + CEO, Podium

Rashmi Gopinath
General Partner, B Capital Group

Mike Radice
Director of Recruiting, Toptal

Tsune Shirota
Partner, World Innovation Lab

Wayne Berger
CEO of IWG Americas, International Workplace Group (IWG)

Ian Gardiner
Co-founder, Innovation Bay

Blessing Abeng
Director of Communications, Ingressive for Good

Jason Williamson
VP, Oracle for Startups & Oracle for Research

Christina Galbato
CEO, Christina Galbato LLC

Stephen Hamm
Author, Stephen Hamm Freelance LLC

Madeline Ulivieri
Chapter Lead, Startup Grind

Alec Wright
Chief Innovation Officer, OneValley

Adi Engel
Chief Marketing Officer, vcita

Jomaree Pinkard
Co-founder + CEO, Hella Cocktail

Kristin Stoller
Staff writer, Careers, Forbes

David Cohen
Co-founder, Managing Partner + Board Member, Techstars

Christine Feng
Senior Managing Director, Blackstone

Brian Brackeen
General Partner, Lightship Capital

Kyle Lui
Partner, DCM

Russ Heddleston
Co-founder + CEO, DocSend

Rebecca Kaden
Partner, Union Square Ventures

Geoff Ralston
President, Y Combinator

Rajiv Nathan
Founder, Startup Hypeman

Hubert Palan
Founder + CEO, Productboard

Andrew Lee
Partner, Initialized Capital

2021 Partners

• Toptal
• Dell Technologies
• Happily
• SNOWFLAKE THE DATA CLOUD
• IWG
• Blackstone LaunchPad & Techstars
• Oracle for Startups
• Attest
• Entrepreneurs' Organization
• Ramp
• Remote Technology, Inc.
• Webflow
• Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs
• Henkel dx
• Deel
• OneValley
• vcita
• Balsamiq Studios, LLC
• .tech domain
• Leadspicker
• Mixpanel
• Electric