The Marketplace Conference 2020 | The Marketplace Conference | 27 May 2020 | The Commonwealth Club, 110 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA

The Marketplace Conference is a one day event focused on all things marketplaces and unites marketplace entrepreneurs, investors and industry experts. It provides a platform for exchanging knowhow and best practices and attracts marketplaces entrepreneurs and investors of all stages.

The event series was initiated by Dan Hoffer of Autotech Ventures and Speedinvest Network Effects who premiered the first The Marketplace Conference in San Francisco in early 2018 followed by a European edition in fall of the same year. Battery Ventures, Point Nine Capital and Market One Capital are among the early supporters and partners of the conference. Today, The Marketplace Conference is a semi-annual event between San Francisco (spring edition) and Berlin (fall edition) that gathers over 1000 marketplace aficionados each year. It is supported by smaller, ancillary The Marketplace Meetups events across different cities in the world.

2020 Speakers

Daniel Hoffer
Managing Director at Autotech Ventures

Roger Lee
General Partner at Battery Ventures

Gene Ramirez
Managing Director at BTIG

Mike Ghaffary
Partner at Canvas Ventures

Marie Petrovicka
VP International at Depop

Kaan Gunay
CEO at Firefly

Sam Zaid
Founder & CEO at Getaround

Oisin Hanrahan
Co-Founder & CEO at Handy

Josh Breinlinger
Managing Director at Jackson Square Ventures

Raj Kapoor
Chief Strategy Officer at Lyft

Rishi Garg
General Partner at Mayfield Fund

Shanna Tellerman
Co-Founder & CEO at Modsy

Ben Narasin
Venture Partner at NEA

James Currier
Managing Partner at NFX

Nick Huzar
CEO at OfferUp

Peter Kelly
CEO at Openlane

Annie Kadavy
Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures

Jonatha Hong
Investment Director at Softbank

Scott Cutler
CEO at StockX

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
President at Stubhub

Ezra Galston
Founding Partner of Starting Line

Mostafa Kandil
CEO at Swvl

Marco Zappacosta
Co-Founder & CEO at Thumbtack

Stephanie Palmeri
General Partner at Uncork Capital

Stephane Kasriel
Former CEO at Upwork

Jeff Chen
former VP, Trust & Safety at Upwork

Sarah Storer
Managing Director at Silicon Valley Bank

Mathias Ockenfels
Partner at Speedinvest

Chris Tsakalakis
former CEO at Vivino & former President at Stubhub

Lawrence Leuschner
CEO at TIER Mobility

Garrett Smallwood
CEO at Wag

Polina Raygorodska
CEO at Wanderu

Kulveer Taggar
CEO at Zeus Living

2020 Sponsors

• singular
• svb
• J.P. Morgan
• adyen
• NATIVE
• Cooley
• SPOT HERO

SELECTED SPEAKERS
• lyf
• OfferUp
• StubHub
• Thumbtack
• Wag
• Mayfield
• NEA
• NfX
• Upwork