Ben manages over $3B investments with many of the world’s premier venture capital firms as well as directly in early stage startups.  He brings to Next Legacy a distinguished track record spanning over two decades founding and investing in early-stage technology businesses.

Ben’s love for technology products formed the basis for his successful venture track record, including early stage investments in Marketo (acquired for $4.75B) and CourseHero (last valued at $3.6B). He previously ran product for Adobe’s Creative Cloud offerings and founded CoffeeTable, where he raised venture capital financing, built a team, and ultimately sold the company.

Ben studied Computer Science at Harvard University before Mark Zuckerberg made it cool and received his MBA from Columbia Business School.

Dominic began his career in accounting and finance at KPMG while he became deeply involved in the startup ecosystem. His first experiences with early-stage companies included mentoring student founders at the DMZ Sandbox Basecamp program, as well as through freelancing for startups & emerging VC managers. Through this lens, he saw the strong, positive impact that initial mentors and investors could have on startups when founders are resource and time constraint. As a result, he kickstarted his venture career with a local venture firm, EVP and helped build out the UWaterloo Student Venture Fund.

Now, Dominic is continuing his journey in working closely with founders at Ripple Ventures, leading pre-seed and seed stage investments into enterprise software, developer tools, and web3 infra companies.

Eddie brings over a decade of experience bringing technology to market, spanning healthcare, B2B, and consumer media. Eddie served as a global partnerships Program Manager at YouTube, developing products and programs to empower the next generation of content creators around the world.

Prior to YouTube, he worked on the Product and Operations team around interest-based advertising at Google, focusing on democratizing digital marketing while informing baselines for policy and regulation in the space. Eddie began his Product Management career building and implementing Affordable Care Act Healthcare Exchanges in Vermont and Hawaii.

Eddie earned his M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management and his B.S. in Systems Engineering and B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He has also served as a Venture Fellow for various early-stage funds such as K50 Ventures, DigitalDx Ventures, and Muse Capital.

Edward Kim is the co-founder and the CTO of Gusto. He is responsible for the software development and technical framework of Gusto’s people platform. He has also committed his career to building diverse and inclusive engineering teams.

Prior to co-founding Gusto, Edward was the CEO and co-founder of Picwing, a Y Combinator startup and photo-printing platform. Before founding Picwing, Edward worked as a senior project engineer at Volkswagen Group of America Electronics Research Lab, where he led research and development for cloud-based navigation and speech recognition systems for Volkswagen and Audi.

Edward is also the developer of several award-winning Android apps that have generated more than $1 million in revenue. Edward holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

​Emily Zhen is a Principal leading the Health Equity investing vertical at Zeal Capital Partners. Zeal Capital Partners invests in diverse management teams at the seed and Series A stages reimagining the building blocks of wealth, from healthcare to education and employment to financial health, that turbocharge economic mobility.

Prior to Zeal, Emily was a healthcare VC and growth investor at NEA where she invested from incubation through growth stages through IPO. Previously, she was a healthcare investment banker at Goldman Sachs and worked in various operating roles in digital health, clinical research, and government.

She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with dual degrees in biology and business from The Wharton School.

Jenny is a principal on the investment team based in New York. Prior to Craft, she was an early employee at Brex across Operations and Strategic Finance, driving cross-functional strategic planning and scaling the company’s operational processes to serve thousands of customers. She also helped launch the company’s ecommerce offering, which quickly grew to become Brex’s largest and fastest growing product.

Jenny started her career at Visa, where she worked on various product teams across consumer credit, IoT, and digital product. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and minor in Statistics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Moses Lo is the CEO and Co-Founder of Xendit, a financial technology company launched in 2015. Over the years, Moses and Xendit have been recognised with awards such as CNBC Upstart 100, The Best Payments Initiative by The Asian Banker, and Forbes 30 under 30. At Xendit, Moses is passionate about improving digital infrastructure in Indonesia and the wider Southeast Asia region through providing the best payment solutions.

Moses earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of New South Wales, majoring in finance and information systems management. He began his career as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, before obtaining his MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. During his studies, he also gained experience at Amazon in retail business development.

Paul is the Co-Founder and CTO of Avant. Avant is a fintech company based in Chicago. Avant is a credit first neobank with over 1.4 million customers and provides credit cards, personal loans, and bank accounts to the middle-class American.

Previously, Paul was in the Y Combinator batch of summer 2011. Paul is also a member of the Board of Visitors for the Grainger School of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Paul was a 2009 graduate of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a degree in Bioengineering.

Prakash Janakiraman is Co-Founder Emeritus at Nextdoor where he most recently served as Chief Architect and Head of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. Nextdoor’s purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Every day, Nextdoor connects millions of neighbors from eleven countries around the world, including one out of every three US households. In addition to leading strategy for the company’s technology platform, Prakash also led the company’s efforts to build a welcoming platform for all neighbors to create a sense of belonging in communities across the globe.

Prior to Nextdoor, Prakash spent nearly three years at Google, where he managed engineering teams for Google Maps and Google Base. Prakash is from Hayward, California, and is currently completing his B.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Shan joined Lightspeed in 2020 as a Partner on the Growth team to invest in category-defining consumer and software companies. Prior to working in venture, Shan spent three years investing in the public market as a hedge fund analyst at Point72 Asset Management.  There, she covered 70+ U.S. and European TMT and consumer companies. “Some of my favorite moments over the past few years were going to IPO roadshows and listening to founders’ journeys from day 1,” she said.  “I realize my true passion really lies working alongside people like them, sharing their hard-work, and enabling their success.”

Shan landed in the United States with just two big suitcases the summer before college. She went on to study subjects ranging from international relations to algorithmic trading. Her focus on the intersection of technology and commerce trained her to break down business problems and industry changes with a rigorous analytical mindset while maintaining a high level of intellectual curiosity.

Shawn is currently a Co-Founder and General Partner of Beluga Capital which has invested and advised in several food tech startups, restaurants, and numerous other companies. He is also currently a Senior Advisor at Grishin Robotics.

Besides tech, Shawn is the founding partner of Umai Hospitality Group, a restaurant group invested in major franchises like The Halal Guys and Bonchon Fried Chicken, along with local brands like Rooster and Rice.

During his senior year, he joined his college friends to start a daily deals company called Munch On Me (YC class of S11) and dove into the tech startup industry. He later co-founded a food delivery company, Caviar, in early 2012. Caviar was acquired by Square, now a public company. in 2014 and then acquired again by DoorDash in 2019.

Teresa Tang is an accomplished leader in the data, technology, media, content, streaming, direct-to-consumer, and business-to-business space with a track record of leading, scaling and transforming teams and organisations. Teresa joins Brightcove from MasterClass where she was their VP of Analytics, Data Science, and Data Engineering and a key member of the Executive Leadership Team while helping lead MasterClass’ Series E and F funding rounds of $100M and $225M, respectively.

Previously, Teresa held leadership positions at CBS Interactive across Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Product. She served as a key advisor to the C-suites and enabled the rapid growth of the multi-billion-dollar revenue digital and streaming sector of CBS Interactive. During her nearly decade-long tenure at CBS Interactive, she established the Business Intelligence and Analytics functions from scratch and was the architect of the company’s digital data platform.