Startup Grind Global Conference 2024 | Startup Grind | 23 April 2024 | Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA

Who you’ll meet:
• Hundreds of investors from around the world who come to find the next best startup
• The organizations who are building programs to support startups and find out how they want to help you
• The teams who are tackling the core startup challenges in sales + marketing, product, fundraising, and more
• Thousands of startups in need of business solutions as they grow
• Fellow organizations and enterprises who are building startup programs
• Innovative teams working in the tech industry

Why this event:
• Discover hundreds of pre-vetted startups from around the globe
• Build your dealflow in 2 days
• Meeting space for 1:1 matchmaking with startups relevant to you
• Access to startup exhibitor data prior to the event
• On-site investor lounge and private events

2024 Speakers

Garry Tan
President + CEO + Group Partner, Y Combinator

Grant LaFontaine
CEO + Co-founder, Whatnot

Aileen Lee
Managing Partner + Founder, Cowboy Ventures

Howie Liu
CEO + Co-founder, Airtable

Emily Chang
Host + Executive Producer, Bloomberg Originals

Jack Altman
Managing Partner, Alt Capital

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
CEO, Xero

Thomas Laffont
Co-founder, Coatue

Manish Chandra
CEO + Founder, Poshmark

Nina Achadjian
Partner, Index Ventures

Josh Luber
CEO + Founder, ghostwrite. StockX, Fanatics Collectibles

Pejman Nozad
Managing Partner + Founder, Pear VC

Deep Nishar
Managing Director, General Catalyst

Wade Foster
CEO + Co-founder, Zapier

Immad Akhund
CEO + Co-founder, Mercury

Elizabeth Yin
General Partner, Hustle Fund

Brett Gibson
Managing Partner, Initialized Capital

Lauren Kolodny
Managing Partner + Co-founder, Acrew Capital

Dalton Caldwell
MD, Investments + Group Partner, Y Combinator

Michael McBride
General Partner, GV (Google Ventures)

Tim Draper
Founder, Draper Associates, Draper University, DFJ

Kobie Fuller
General Partner, Upfront Ventures

May Habib
CEO + Co-founder, Writer

Chris Lattner
CEO + Co-founder, Modular

Miles Grimshaw
General Partner, Thrive Capital

Sangeeta Chakraborty
Chief Revenue Officer, Miro

Romain Huet
Head of Developer Experience, OpenAI

James Joaquin
Managing Director + Co-founder, Obvious Ventures

Hoolie Tejwani
Director, Head of Coinbase Ventures, Coinbase

Navin Chaddha
Managing Partner, Mayfield

Spenser Skates
CEO + Co-founder, Amplitude

Emma Auscher
Global Head of Customer Experience, Notion

Daniel Yanisse
CEO + Co-founder, Checkr

Edith Harbaugh
Co-founder + Executive Chair, LaunchDarkly

Alex Solomon
General Manager + Co-founder, PagerDuty

Pankaj Dugar
SVP + GM, North America, AI21 Labs

Rajeev Dham
Partner, Sapphire Ventures

Ethan Kurzweil
Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners

Anuradha Muralidharan
COO, Expensify

Jason Mok
Head of Startups, Brex

Sri Chandrasekar
Managing Partner, Point72 Ventures

Whit Bouck
Managing Director, Insight Partners

Danielle Strachman
General Partner, 1517 Fund

Juliet Bailin
Partner, General Catalyst

Vlad Loktev
Partner, Index Ventures

Itamar Novick
Founder + General Partner, Recursive Ventures

Wen Zhang
CEO + Founder, INNW Institute

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

Suffiyan Malik
Investor & Director Growth Operations, Draper University

Marcos Fernandez
Managing Partner, Fiat Ventures

Ryan Wiggins
VP of Growth + Analytics, Mercury

Elena Lenena
AI Global Product Lead, Google

Katie Scherer
VP, Talent, Index Ventures

Kelsey Szot
Co-founder, Adept AI

Cristina Apple Georgoulakis
Partner, Seven Seven Six

Vanessa Larco
Partner, NEA

Gaurab Bansal
Executive Director, Responsible Innovation Labs

Diede van Lamoen
Co-founder, Responsible Innovation Labs

Alex Malebranche
Global Engagement Lead, GitHub for Startups, GitHub

Rebecca Lynn
General Partner + Co-founder, Canvas Ventures

Kristen Durham
SVP, SMB & Startups, Zendesk

Daniel Sternberg
Head of Data, Notion

Shoaib Makani
CEO + Founder, Motive

Raffi Krikorian
Chief Technology Officer, Emerson Collective

Michael Ellison
CEO + Co-founder, CodePath

Romain Huet
Head of Developer Experience, OpenAI

Lizzie Francis
Partner, M13

Drew Glover
Founding Partner, General Partner, Fiat Growth, Fiat Ventures

Medha Agarwal
General Partner, defy.vc

Sajith Wickramasekara
CEO + Founder, Benchling

Nick Washburn
Senior Managing Director, Intel Capital

Eric Vishria
General Partner, Benchmark

Vrushali Paunikar
Chief Product Officer, Carta

Emilie Cole
Head of Communications, Jiko

Paul Veradittakit
Managing Partner, Pantera Capital

Rob Smith
Partner, M13

Avery Klemmer
Investor, Thrive

Brady Broadbent
Partner, Sorenson Capital

Linda Lian
CEO + Co-founder, Common Room

Clayton Bryan
Partner, Head of Global Accelerator Fund, 500 Global

Laura Schaffer
VP of Growth, Amplitude

Jane Alexander
Partner, CapitalG

Mark Fiorentino
Partner, Index Ventures

Annie Pearl
CVP, Growth + Ecosystems, Cloud + AI, Microsoft

2024 Partners

• Dell Technologies
• Brex
• Microsoft for Startups
• Mercury
• Zendesk
• Trinet
• DuploCloud
• Zeni
• Panoptica
• Tech Domains
• Tonik
• Gunderson Dettmer
• Maryland
• Carta Launch
• Infobip
• Point72 Ventures
• HubSpot
• IDA Ireland
• Customer.Io
• Bevy
• MConnexions
• Brella