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Created by Vanessa Rasanen Contact

Join us for NYC Tech Week Open Office Hours with VCs!

- 20 Minute Intro Meetings
- Only choose relevant investors
- Strict Limit: Maximum of 4 meetings per company (or you will be deleted)


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Meet real VCs and intro your idea in a 20-minute overview. Remember, it's not about getting a check--it's about sharing enough info to get the next meeting. Show up on time, please!
 
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Here's the whole schedule:

Tuesday, October 17th 10am - 12pm (In-Person):

  •  Aditya Mishra (BAT VC) - Seed / Early series A
  • Ryan Lee (Comcast Ventures) - Series A/B, age tech, home health, enterprise AI, Gaming
  • Jamie Bristow (Frontline Ventures) - B2B Software, with a focus on data, infrastructure, developer tools. Do not invest in hardware, or consumer businesses
  • Meghan Moreland (Riot Ventures) - Hard tech / deep tech focused, not interested in consumer

Tuesday, October 17th 10am - 12pm (Virtual):

  • David Rose (Rose Tech Ventures) - Seed/pre-seed, PropTech/FinTech/SaaS, no [fashion, gaming, beverage, med tech, life science]
  • Ankit Agarwal (A7V) - Preseed - interested in CPG, DTC, Food, Consumer Brands, Enterprise SaaS, Platforms/APIs
  • Claire Goldsmith (BoxGroup) - Generalist pre-seed/seed; especially excited about healthcare-meets-fintech, climate/bio, reimagining the enterprise with AI
  • Chris Moreno (Infinite Niches) - I’m pre-seed to series C and focused on the “The Built World” including Real Estate, Hardware, Logistics, Automation, Climate tech, FOW/travel as well as overlooked founders
  • Carlos Furlotti (Exposition Ventures) - We invest in pre-seed and seed start-ups trying to implement disruptive or frontier technologies across the manufacturing value chain
  • Vaneezeh Siddiqui (Thomson Reuters Ventures) - Seed and series A in the following sectors: legal tech, tax, fraud, risk, compliance, fintech, insurtech, accounting tech
  • Bo Berluti (RTP Global) - Seed to Series B B2B SaaS companies, $1M - $15M checks; no Healthcare, Conusmer, hardware, Climate Tech
  • Scott Howard (House of Ventures) - Enterprise, Industrial, Deeptech. Software=pre/seed. Hardware = up to A. $250k checks. No pharma/biotech, consumer.
  • KJ Singh (Techstars) - I run the Techstars NYC program. We are generalist investors here and are investing in pre-seed accelerator stage companies. We have a slight preference for fintech, digital health, and enterprise SaaS companies.
  • Jane Chen (Blue 9 Capital) - Seed, A - fintech, healthtech, industrials tech; preference for B2B but will look at B2B2C; NO CPG, biotech, consumer finance apps, HR Tech
  • Kendall Crocker (Scor Ventures) - Early stage (pre-seed - A) healthtech, climate, insurtech; invest globally
  • Sebastian Rositano (Oncology Ventures) - Healthcare. Series A to Series C.

Tuesday, October 17th 2 - 4pm (In-Person):

  • Nish Patel (Intertia Ventures) - Seed and Series A B2B SaaS and AI-enabled companies building applications in legacy industries. No web3, ESG, or hardware
  • Benjamin Zilnicki (GC1 Ventures) - Seed + / Series A. Sector agnostic outside of DeepTech. Consumer, Marketplace, Healthcare (vertical D2C care models, employer benefits) Fintech (no blockchain)
  • Bryce Johnson (Primary VC) - Pre-seed to Series A; Fintech, Consumer, Healthcare, Proptech, SMB Tech; Not Crypto, Not Deep Biotech
  • Joshua Siegel (Acronym Ventures) - Enterprise/SMB Saas with at least $1m ARR. No heathcare, edtech, utility or government.
  • Jeffrey Silverman (Laconia Capital) - Pre-Seed/Seed Stage B2B - No sciences
  • Renat Khairullin (Stara VC / Yellowrocks VC) - Early-stage startups, sector agnostic, but no deeptech or biotech startups
  • Jeremy Epstein (American Family Ventures) - seed fintech, insurtech, health + proptech
  • Lindsay Daugherty (Bullish) - Early-stage consumer companies; NO B2B
  • Samuel Martinez (Pharus) - Focused on tech (SaaS, FinTech, HR Tech, MarTech, among others)
  • Jack Storrs (FinTech Collective) - Invests in Seed to Series A across everything fintech (industry agnostic) in North America, Latam, Western Europe, and MENA
  • Jack Lipstone (Chapter One) - Seed, technology and blockchain

Tuesday, October 17th 2 - 4pm (Virtual):

  • Alex Ferber (Green Egg Ventures) - B2B software $10M valuation or less
  • Julia Maltby (Flybridge & Deco Ventures) - pre-seed, seed, only focused on real esate, supply chain, construction, manufacturing, climate
  • Cat Middleton (The Venture Collective) - Interested in companies that are helping people thrive in their every day lives (i.e. healthcare, fintech, work, food sustainability, etc)
  • Chialin Yu (Elephant VC) - Series A SaaS-focused; typically like to see $2M+ in ARR
  • Momo Bi (Watershed Ventures) - Seed to serious B, diverse teams, digital healthcare, climate, purpose driven software
  • Mayuran Yogarajah (Index Exchange / IX Labs) - Early stage (pre seed and seed), founder led, working MVP, pre revenue OK
  • Anjing Fu (Fifth Wall) - Only PropTech, Construction Tech, Gen AI Applications to Real Estate (Seed to Pre-IPO)
  • Quan Zhang (Pin Capital) - Early-stage companies in e-commerce and healthcare
  • Stephanie Wang (FemHealth Ventures) - Interested in women's health companies
  • Melissa Fensterstock (Material Impact) - Foodtech, Space tech, Next gen computing. Not software, not therapeutics. Pre-seed, seed, A
  • Dave Kim (IDEO CoLab Ventures) - Pre-seed / Seed. Interested in web3, AI, the intention economy.
  • Trey Gill (Wasson Enterprise) - pre-seed, seed, series a; healthcare; consumer/retail-tech; cleantech; not interested in biotech & medtech
  • Jay-Pachirat (FinTech Collective, DeFi Fund) - Pre-Seed to Series A. Invests in digital-assets, crypto co's/protocols. Focus: institutionally-geared products/services, capital markets, infra & consumer with a financial component
  • Grace Carney (Union Square Ventures) - Invests in seed and predominantly Series A companies. I am particularly interested in climate tech, vertical approaches to AI, edtech, and media. Less interested in biotech, DevOps, and crypto.
  • Adity Sharma (Honda Xcelerator Ventures) - Cybersecurity, Enterprise SaaS, FinTech, BioTech,

Wednesday, October 18th 10am - 12pm (In-Person):

  • Nick Adams (Differential Ventures) - AI and enterprise tech. Not interested in consumer applications or hardware solutions
  • Tono Osio (ANIMO Ventures) - lead pre seed and seed. Generalist but not interested in FDA-related industries, marketech and fashion
  • Nobu Takanuma (Joyance Partners) - Pre-seed/Seed, Consumer/Consumer Health, and I am not interested in FINTech, Web3
  • Theo Lim (Moderne Ventures) - Series A, B, and C
  • Bill Detwiler (Fernbrook Capital Management LLC) - Revenue stage investor in b2b (software, services, tools) & b2c e-commerce focused businesses
  • Jared Young (Tower Research Capital) - Pre-seed Capital Markets Fintech, AI/ML, Sports-betting
  • Ian Goldberg (Venrex) - Seed stage mainly, pre-seed occasionally. Personally: developer tools/api insfrastructure (across healthcare, manufacturing, space tech) No web3, biotech, real estate or hardware.
  • Caro Scalercio, Derek Norton, & Idan Levy - 1st check capital for founders from founders. A fund for today’s creative set, the builders/makers of consumer technology and enterprise software companies

Wednesday, October 18th 10am - 12pm (Virtual):

  • Caroline O'Connor (Samsung Next) - Interested in Series A+ Digital Health companies (not medical devices)
  • Naomi Goez (Forum Ventures) - Pre-seed, B2B SaaS
  • Kate Kitto (Simplex Ventures) - We are the VC arm of Simplex Trading (an options market maker) and we focus on Pre Seed- Series A fintech companies.
  • Sean McCroskey (Vast Ventures) - Early stage generalist investor with a current focus on healthcare, AI/Cloud software, defense tech, and climate tech
  • Charles Smith (Joyance) - Early stage consumer goods, healthcare. No Fintech
  • Daniil Gudkov (DoDocs inc) - Seed, AI and SaaS, not interested in helthtech
  • Marina Girgis (Precursor Ventures) - pre-seed and seed, North America- based, generalist but DONT invest in CPG, crypto/blockchain/web3, adtech, deeptech, life sciences, biotech, vice
  • Vicky Regan (Unruly Capital) - Pre-seed, Seed, DeepTech & Climate, Frontier & Hardware heavy. We don't really look at Life Sciences or too much software
  • Phil Nadel (Forefront Venture Partners) - Seed - Series B, Minimum of $250k annual revenue run rate, sector agnostic
  • Ludwig Schulze (Alumni Ventures) - Co-investor only. Pre-seed-B. All sectors.
  • Mike Gray (Remarkable Ventures Climate) - Seed and A stage Climate Tech companies, ideally not in deeptech, food/ag, or materials.
  • Andrew McKinzie (Tower Research Capital Ventures) - pre-seed to series A, fintech & AI/ML, NOT interested in healthcare
  • Diane Choi (Samsung Next) - Interested in: Seed to Series B, AI/media tech/blockchain (with the greatest emphasis on AI). Not interested in: fintech.
  • Adam Freed (GSV Ventures) - Education Technology / Learning Technology ONLY
  • Gonzalo Morales (Remarkable Ventures Climate) - Seed and A stage Climate Tech companies, ideally not in deeptech, food/ag, or materials

Wednesday, October 18th 2 - 4pm (In-Person):

  • Katelyn Donnelly (Avalanche VC) - Pre seed companies that transforming how people learn, earn, or own. Must be a tech company
  • KJ Sidberry (GV) - Seed thru B. Consumer tech and ecom enablement. Not interested in cybersecurity, deep tech, dev tools
  • Laura Fox (Streetlife Ventures) - Pre-seed and seed stage companies in climate in cities (e.g., mobility, buildings, energy, waste / water, adaptation). Not interested in DAC, corporate ESG reporting, food tech, etc.
  • Nikita Parekh (Goldman Sachs Growth Equity) - Series B+, enterprise tech, $5m+ ARR
  • Doug Benowitz (Colle Capital) - Early-stage generalist (B2B SaaS, Deep/Frontier Tech, Healthcare, Logistics, etc). No Crypto or crypto adjacent please.

Wednesday, October 18th 2 - 4pm (Virtual):

  • Geri Kirilova (Laconia) - We invest in b2b software companies at pre-seed and seed. We generally don't do biotech, cybersecurity, hardware, crypto, or b2c
  • Zann Ali (2048 Ventures) - Data and technology & focus on platform plays. Business model ex: API/Data Platforms, Infrastructure, Marketplaces/Networks, B2B Vertical SaaS, Consumer Subscription
  • Jonathan Jetmundsen (MBM Capital) - Interested in companies that have raised prior VC capital and have at least $3m of run rate revenue, anything in B2B technology/SaaS or services
  • Dwight Greenhouse (Lightbank) - Interested in pre-seed deals in vertical saas or healthcare / digital health / health tech / consumer health.
  • Asif Khan (Las Olas Venture Capital) - We lead early-stage rounds (typically $3-7M rounds so Seed, Seed+, small A) in B2B SaaS companies based in the Eastern US with $1.5-2.5M lead checks.
  • Talha Khan (IBM Ventures) - Seed or later, Data & AI (Infra), Security, Institutional Web3
  • Rishi Ratan (Gate Technologies Capital - Lazard Family Office) - Tech growth investor specializing in AI infrastructure and defense tech
  • Ishan Parashar (G20 Ventures) - Series A, interested in B2B Saas (particularly AI). not interested in consumer, healthcare, biotech, gov’t
  • Caroline Elliott (Interplay) - Series A. interested in B2B SaaS (vertical software for SMBs and B2B marketplaces) Generalists with focus on: ecommerce, fintech, digital health, femtech, elder care.NO deep tech, cyber security, biotech
  • Mark Mullen (Bonfire Ventures) - B2B only, Seed stage, No pre revenue or product
  • Nikita Satish (Blisce) - Series A/B. Software, marketplaces, vertical SaaS, digital health, future of work, caregiving, energy, but all with an end user/consumer relationship (Notion, Arcadia, Dice, Docusign, Headspace all count)
  • Helen Liang (FoundersX Ventures) - Seed & A round, GenAI, finech, digital health, NOT in Crypto

Thursday, October 19th 10am - 12pm (In-Person):

  • Jay Levy (Zelkova Ventures) - pre seed and seed B2B software only

Thursday, October 19th 10am - 12pm (Virtual):

  • Yash Rohera (Surface Ventures) - Pre-Seed and Seed B2B infra primarily. Don't do blockchain/web3 or much in the media world
  • Mirit Lugassi (Laconia Capital) - Pre seed/seed B2B software companies. US & Canada focus. We don’t typically invest in biotech, energy, military applications, hardware, consumer tech, or deeptech
  • Alex Iskold (2048 Ventures) - Anything infrastructure and platforms across verticals, biotech, digital health, traditional health, AI/ML, dev tools, security, AR/VR, Space Tech, Long Tail SaaS, Marketplace.
  • Anthony Santaro (Armory Square Ventures) - ASV focuses on leading Seed + Series A rounds in B2B SaaS & Marketplace companies (we look for ~$400k+ in ARR / Net revenue)
  • Elias Can (Grishin Robotic) - Consumer Generalist focused on pre-seed through Series A (Seed is sweet spot) Not interested in enterprise B2B, deeptech, spacetech, biotech, healthcare, CPG, or bev/alc
  • Bérénice Nossent (Groupe ADP) - Series A/B, aviation/airport, passenger experience, mobility, retail, sustainability/new energies
  • Brian Gong (Cameron Ventures) - pre-seed through Series A fintech, insurtech, HRtech, and healthcare. We don't invest in anything outside of these sectors.
  • Vincenzo Salina (Vesey Ventures) - Early-stage fintech (consumer, b2b, enterprise). Seed and Series A
  • Jason Chang (Bedari Collective) - InfraTech (tech that enables existing/new infrastructure to operate more efficiently/resiliently). Early Stage, post product risk across energy, transportation, digital infrastructure, & water/waste.
  • Maxwell Nardi (MongoDB Ventures) - Invests in and partners w/ cutting-edge developer and data companies. We invest from seed onwards. We’re NOT investing in hardware, sales & marketing software, or consumer

Thursday, October 19th 2 - 4pm (In-Person):

  • Bruce Jaffe (j4.ventures) - We seek early stage opportunities addressing large markets that are technology based or enabled. We tend to stay away from media and entertainment, adtech, biotech, and Games
  • Yev Gelfand (Alumni Ventures) -The later-stage, the better (e.g., we don't do much pre-seed). Our investment decisions driven off TRACTION and CAP TABLE.
  • Nandini Agarwal (ffVenture Capital) - preseed/seed, B2B SaaS
  • Connor Ling (Visible Ventures) - Seed / Series A consumer tech (B2C or B2B2C); not interested in FinTech / gaming
  • Alex Carvalho (Distributed Ventures) - Seed / Series A - Insurtech mainly - healthtech w/ employe benefits angle works.
  • Anthony Valente (Phoenix Fund) - Pre-seed to A startups with at least 1 cofounder from Harvard
  • John Hooie (Tusk Venture Partners) - Seed & Series A in heavily regulated markets

Thursday, October 19th 2 - 4pm (Virtual):

  • Emily Zhu (NY Life Ventures) - Seed to Series C, $1M min check size. Enterprise SaaS, data infrastructure/mgmt, AI/ML, cybersecurity, fintech, insurtech, proptech, climate tech, digital health, eldertech
  • Oliver Henry (DayDream Ventures) - pre-seed thru Series B, areas of interest - fintech, vertical SaaS, AI, proptech, insuretech. Areas not of interest - biotech
  • Thomas Wisniewski (Newark Venture Partners) - Seed stage B2B Software: vertical Saas, B2B commerce, supply chain. B2B Marketplaces. No hardware, consumer, med/pharma
  • Madelyn O'Farrell (Dynamo Ventures) - Pre-seed and seed stage, supply chain and mobility, B2B only
  • Pedro Dias (Atman) - pre-seed/seed, fintech, b2b saas, developer tools
  • Sam Wils (XRC Ventures) - Pre-seed retail tech, commerce enablement, logistics. Not interested in biotech, consumer products, deep health tech
  • Mike MacCombie (Generous Ventures) - Pre-seed/seed fund, vertical SaaS, B2B marketplaces, compliance tech, and supply chain & logistics. Generalist, but nothing incredibly hype-driven. (No cannabis, no CPG.)
  • Izzy Nova (Highland Capital Partners) - Series A-C, over $5 million ARR, B2B SaaS, healthtech, marketplaces, NOT web3, NOT crypto.
  • Glenn Borok (Jump Capital) - Generalist early-stage fund focused on Series A (occasionally seed as well). Interested in FinTech, B2B SaaS, Future of Work but will look at anything non-hardware/life sciences/healthcare related.
  • Galina Ozgur (H/L Ventures) - Raising Series A/B. Invests in the nexus of impact/diversity (ventures that do good for the planet and/ or society). Don't invest in crypto, vice. Interested in healthcare, climate, fintech, femtech.
  • Zamir Shukho (Vibranium.VC) - B2B/B2C SaaS, industry focus: Productivity Software, Financial Services, Sales/Marketing, Media & Information Services. Seed/series A, with traction on the US/European market
  • Yasmeena Faycurry (645 Ventures) - Seed, Series A stage focused; I personally love all things consumer tech (ai agents/relationships/experiences), fintech (cross border/ SMBs), compliance/risk (KYC/AML tech), b2b SaaS
  • Zeke Trezise (New Stack Ventures) - We invest $500k-1.5M at pre-seed and seed. We do not invest in CPG, Medtech, or businesses without a recurring element.
  • Emma Sokoloff (Shine Capital) - Seed & Series A; consumer, commerce, climate, and health/bio tech
  • Sophy Li (Headline) - Late Seed to Series A (3 to 10M checks). B2B SaaS, Consumer, FinTech. Less interested in BioTech/ CPGs/ Hardware
  • Zafar M (Ito ventures) - Pre-seed/seed commerce enablement
  • George Altirs (Rho Capital) - Seed-Series A. B2B SaaS, FinTech, Healthcare, Consumer. Not interested in deep BioTech.
  • Anshah Lakhani (Evolve Labs) -Pre-seed, Seed, Series A interested in gaming, consumer mobile, gambling/vice, developer tools, and low-code/no-code
  • Virginie Raphael (FullCircle) - Pre-seed fund investing in a more equitable workforce (target areas include HR tech, the care economy and SMBs/independent workers).

Friday, October 20th 10am - 12pm (In-Person):

  • Owen Davis (Contour Venture Partners) - Enterprise, Saas, B to B
  • Will McKelvey (Lerer Hippeau) - Investing in pre-seed, seed, and series A startups across sectors, with the exception of biotech/healthtech. No crypto/blockchain please :)
  • Abby Lyall (Tribeca Venture Parnters) - NY-based tech companies only (sector agnostic) at Series A and Series B- pre IPO. We are not interested in pre-seed/seed stage companies, CPG companies or biotech companies
  • Zach Cohen (a16z) - Consumer x AI - tinkering / pre-seed / seed
  • Mercedes Zhang (Manhattan Venture Partners) - Series C and beyond companies, secondaries and primaries - no biotech or high capex deals
  • JJ Kasper (Blue Collective) - Pre-Seed - any and all industries / categories / themes
  • Ji Ke (SOSV / HAX) - Pre-seed, pre-revenue hardware focused climate tech and industrial independence startups
  • William Carroll (Eleven Capital Management) - Series A - Series B (ish); PropTech, vertical SaaS, specialty manufacturing, AI
  • Andrew Drylie (Quadri Ventures) - Series A Saas companies with at least $1m in revenue that are built on AWS. Not interested in growth stage or pre revenue companies.

Friday, October 20th 10am - 12pm (Virtual):

  • Max Harrison (ERA/Remarkable Ventures) - Investing in Pre-Seed through Series A companies with a focus on Fintech, ClimateTech, Digital Health
  • Deepika Jonnalagadda (Blu Ventures) - Focused on pre-seed and seed, B2B SaaS and Digital Health. Not interested in CPG, Hardware, BioTech, DeepTech.
  • Tyler Schinto (Presidio Ventures) - Generally investing in Series A/B across enterprise IT and deep-tech, B2B only, no consumer
  • Shreya Durbha (Smash Capital) - Invests in software and consumer internet companies that are raising Series B and beyond. Doesn't invest in pre-PMF and pre-revenue companies. Minimum check size is $10m.
  • Yuriy Dovzhansky (Visible Ventures) - We are focused on Seed and Series A investments in consumer, consumer-tech, commerce enablement, familytech, and digital health and wellness. We are NOT interested in consumer social or hardware.
  • Rameen Rana (Samsung Next) - Digital Health, Health + AI, Fitness/Wellness, EdTech. Stage preference is Seed to Series B
  • Rishi Sharma (Newlin VC) - Preseed/Seed | Interested: Foodtech,CPG,Insurtech & IOT | Not Interested: Horizontal entrprise B2B SAAS

Friday, October 20th 2 - 4pm (In-Person):

  • Hossein Alsharif (Thomson Reuters Ventures) - Seed - Series A, Tax Tech, Fintech, Vertical AI Apps
  • Talal Attieh (Steel Atlas) - Invests in early-seed tech that enables economic resilience across an increasingly volatile world. Focus: The built environment, the energy transition, supply chain/logistics, and advanced manufacturing

Friday, October 20th 2 - 4pm (Virtual):

  • Kyle Perez (Anthemis) - pre seed and seed stage fintech / insurtech
  • Josh Futterman (Papa Bear Ventures) - $15k - $50k in MRR with some momentum in traditional (not generative) AI-backed SMB SaaS, platforms, marketplaces, tools plus opportunistically in other B2B software. Not interested in Web3, EdTech, HR Tech, branding or retail-related.
  • Sarah Kreifus (Vesey Ventures) - Early stage seed to series b
  • Cinthia Liu (Individual Angel, Venture Partners of 2 seed VC) - Angel, pre-seed, seed; sector agnostic but health tech (digital health, medtech, etc.), enterprise tech, ecommerce/retail/DTC/consumer tech favorable
  • Zac Geinzer (CandyVC) - Generalist pre-seed/seed, no web 3.
  • Matt Saunders (Helena) - Interested in hard tech / climate companies that have an innovative offering (cheaper and better than existing solutions)
  • Gedion Haddis (Camber Creek) - Interested in meeting proptech or proptech-related Seed - Series B companies. Including but not limited to proptech intersection with fintech, and climate-tech.
  • Amber Quinones (BBG Ventures) - Invests in pre-seed and seed companies led by women and/or BIPOC founders who are building in the future of work, healthcare software and services, climate tech, fintech, and consumer areas of passion.
  • Liz Hartley (Red Swan Ventures) - Preseed and seed stage VC investing in B2B SaaS, marketplaces, ecommerce infrastructure and consumer internet
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Dates and locations
Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Primary VC, Felix Roasting Co., 450 Park Ave S, New York, NY 10016, USA
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