Anjney Midha is the Vice President, Platform Ecosystems of Discord, a voice, video, and text service used by over 150 million people every month on a mission to create space for everyone to find togetherness.

Anjney joined Discord via the acquisition of his company Ubiquity6, a pioneering multiplayer technology company backed by $50M+ from leading investors including Benchmark, Index Ventures and First Round Capital. As the co-founder and former CEO of Ubiquity6, he led the company from founding to serving millions of users globally, and finally to its acquisition by Discord in 2021.

Prior to Ubiquity6, Anjney was a partner at Kleiner Perkins, the American venture capital firm with over $3 billion in assets under management and private investments in Google, Amazon, Uber, Snap and Epic Games. At Kleiner, he led the formation of the firm’s first dedicated seed fund, and invested in companies across the venture and growth stages.

Originally from India and Singapore, Anjney pursued his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Stanford University, and now lives in San Francisco. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 and Google Fellows alum. In his free time, Anjney is an active angel investor and loves helping other company builders.

Annie Lee brings 18 years of experience in B2C and B2B marketing across various tech companies. As Chief Marketing Officer for Howl, Annie is dedicated to building a new marketplace for creators and brands who crave transparent collaboration. With Howl, creators are rewarded by brands for sharing honest reviews with their communities.

Passionate about helping early stage companies scale marketing efforts during their hyper-growth stage, Annie has worked across seed stage to Fortune 500 companies such as Brave, Twitch, Amazon, EatWith, Pinterest, and Microsoft. By night, she supports startups by contributing to mission-driven companies and funds, such as Bling Capital, 2 Punks Capital, and Block Party.

Originally from the Big Island of Hawaii, Annie now spends most of her time in Seattle and San Francisco. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family, while actively advocating for parents and DEI in the workplace. Annie earned a Master of Communication in Digital Media from University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Marketing from Seattle University, where she served as an Adjunct Professor for Marketing Analytics.

Dom is a Partner at Ripple Ventures, leading pre-seed and seed stage investments into enterprise software, developer tools, and web3 infra companies. He works closely with founders to find product market fit, hire talent, and raise capital. Dom is also the founder of the RippleX Fellowship program, which empowers underrepresented student founders and aspiring VCs across the world.

Emily is a venture capital investor at NEA focused on digital health and life sciences investing. Emily is a Board Observer for Spiras Health, Slope, and Senti Bio, and is also involved in NEA’s investments in Vori Health, Strive Health, Waymark, Curana Health, ChromaCode, Vistagen Therapeutics, and Geron. Prior to joining NEA, Emily worked in healthcare investment banking at Goldman Sachs in New York City. She has also worked at the U.S. Department of Treasury, PwC, and early-stage digital health startups Healthie and NeuroFlow. Emily graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Vagelos Program in Life Sciences & Management, where she earned a B.S. in Finance from Wharton, a B.A. in Biology, and a certificate in healthcare policy as a Public Policy Research Scholar.

Felix Lung is the CTO and Co-Founder of Zola – a wedding startup based in NYC re-imagining what the wedding experience should be for couples and vendors. Felix’s career has spanned from large companies such as Intel and DoubleClick (pre-Google) to startups such as Language Weaver (now RDS), Gilt Groupe, and Host Committee (now Fevo). Felix’s focus is helping great people solve and build amazing products through technology.

Jason Kwong is Chief Innovation Officer at Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, a vertically integrated entertainment company that spans streaming, DVD, film & TV distribution, and TV production, overseeing new initiatives for the company’s future growth, leading strategy, business development, and partnerships to that end.

Mr. Kwong was previously Chief Strategy and Digital Officer for Redbox (acquired by CSSE), where he drove the transformation from focused DVD rental business to a multi-faceted entertainment company with 41MM loyalty members, launching and growing multiple digital businesses which include Redbox’s Transactional Video on Demand (TVOD), Ad Supported Video on Demand (AVOD), Free Ad Supported Television (FAST) channels, as well as digital-out-of-home (DOOH).

He has an extensive background in digital media and entertainment at companies that were leading digital disruption. His roles spanned content, business development, and strategy. He’s held roles in mobile entertainment at Helio and Virgin Mobile, where he ran business development for all data and content services on the platform – spanning music, video, games, social, and location services. He was part of the launch team and led content acquisition, merchandising, and strategy for the Otter Media-owned, Fullscreen’s SVOD service. And he was responsible for business development and licensing at Warner Bros. Digital Distribution, as well as running the mobile apps & games P&L. And finally, he worked in content acquisition managing major studio film partnerships at Netflix.

Mr. Kwong received his B.A. in Economics and Psychology from University of California, Los Angeles and his MBA from University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.

Jenny is a principal at Craft 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 helping scale the company’s underwriting processes to serve thousands of customers. She was also involved with the launch of the company’s ecommerce offering. Jenny started her career at Visa, where she worked in New York and San Francisco across IoT, digital product, and consumer credit. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and minor in Statistics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Outside of work Jenny serves on the leadership team for Women in Fintech, a non-profit dedicated to increasing representation in the fintech industry.

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 YCombinator 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.

Shawn is a proud Chinese-American immigrant who grew up in the Los Angeles area. He is an alumnus of UC Berkeley class of 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and Minor in Sustainable Design.

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.

He 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.

Teresa Tang was the Executive and VP of Analytics, Data Science, and Data Engineering at MasterClass, an immersive and exclusive online e-learning experience that offers access to the world’s best. She was responsible for scaling and transforming the business, product, content, and culture with data.

Previously, Teresa held leadership positions across Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Product at CBS Interactive. She was part of the founding teams that launched and scaled CBS All Access (now Paramount+) and CBSN. Prior to that, Teresa managed consulting project teams providing solutions for Fortune 500 companies at Oracle’s Analytical Services group (formerly ProfitLogic, Inc).

Teresa is a member of The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and serves as an advisor and investor to C-Suite executives of Fortune 500 companies and startups. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and a Master’s degree from Harvard University.

Tony Wang is the founder of the Office of Applied Strategy, an independent strategy practice that operates as a hybrid between a management consulting firm, brand strategy agency, and think tank.Focused on tackling unorthodox asks at the intersection of culture and technology, OAS works with leaders across established brands and emerging startups to solve anti-disciplinary questions that require synthesizing left and right brain thinking: from metaverse research with Ariana Grande to crypto programming with Sequoia Capital to global campaign strategy with Prada to brand strategy for Uniswap. OAS also operates a think tank arm that conducts both public and private research, co-publishing white papers with partners such as Boston Consulting Group and Highsnobiety. Prior to founding OAS, Tony has held leadership roles at various luxury companies overseeing brand and content strategy such as SSENSE and Barneys New York. He has previously worked at McKinsey, Google & IDEO. Tony holds a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School, and a Master’s in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine.