Venture with Grace

Grace Gong
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Venture with Grace

I host a top VC podcast called Smart Venture Podcast (SVPpro.com). Past guests include C-level/VPs of Google, Meta, Amazon, Sephora, Dunkin' Donuts, Chipotle, Pepsi, Instagram, Deloitte, Reddit, Lyft, etc. Managing Partners of top funds (many were featured on the Forbes Midas List) and unicorn founders (founders of Craigslist, Square, Loom, Cruise, etc.) Venture with Grace is my new spin-off series that features top LPs, GPs, solo GPs, Angel Investors, top AI founders, and other experts in tech and business to cover specific domain expertise. Watch this Live on LinkedIn/ YouTube: Grace Gong

  1. 10 HR. AGO

    Nosu.io CEO Audrey Chen on Building AI, Winning Hackathons & Tech Content

    Nosu founder backgrounds: Audrey (CEO) won 20+ hackathons, engineering @ Intuit, Intel, NASA USRC, content creator with 68k following on instagram @jia.seed. Disclaimer: Grace is an investor in Nosu. Topics: How to Spot Successful Founders at Hackathons Content Creation and Community Building Authentically Building a Gen Z Engineering Community#hackathon#startups#womenintech#engineering#tech

    56 min

  2. 1 DAY AGO

    Incisive Ventures' Martin Tobias on Pre-Seed B2B Software & Building Unicorns

    Martin Tobias is the founder of Incisive Ventures. Over decades of investing, he has identified seven meta themes and developed a screening process that successfully identified outlier companies and founders. Incisive Ventures is a Pre-Seed Fund in Seattle to invest in technology companies that reduce friction at scale, leveraging the partner's network built as an angel investor in 60+ companies in the sector, including 4 unicorns, that secured $2.5B+ in follow-on financing. He is a serial entrepreneur who has also invested in over 250 companies as an angel, half a dozen as a venture partner at a major VC firm, and he is a limited partner in over a dozen VC funds. He is also the Founder of a leading Angel network, Element8. As a 3x venture-backed CEO with experience from Microsoft and Accenture, he has raised over $500M (including two IPOs) for his own companies. Topics: Building deal flow when launching a first-time fund Due diligence framework for pre-revenue companies Real metrics that matter at pre-seed #VentureCapital#AngelInvesting#StartupLife#SaaS

    58 min

  3. 1 DAY AGO

    NVIDIA VP Howard Wright on Accelerating the Global AI Startup Ecosystem

    Howard Wright is the VP of Startup Ecosystem at NVIDIA. Prior to that he was the VP of Global Head of Start Ups at Amazon Web Services. At NVIDIA, he leads their global Inception program, positioned at the epicenter of the generative AI revolution. His role focuses on democratizing access to NVIDIA's comprehensive AI platform while building strategic partnerships across the startup ecosystem. Working with over 19,000 innovative startups, leading VCs, and global technology partners, they're creating a flywheel of innovation that's transforming industries and solving humanity's greatest challenges.Topics: Current AI trends and their impact on different industries Building a successful startup in 2025 Creating and nurturing a thriving business ecosystem#NVIDIA#AI#GPU#DeepLearning#Innovation

    59 min

  4. 1 DAY AGO

    NEA Partner Aaron Jacobson on AI, DevTools & Enterprise Infrastructure

    Aaron Jacobson is a Partner at NEA. He seeks to partner with founders building generational companies in AI, developer tools, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and robotics. His current investments include Databricks, Second Front, Pulumi, Martian, Flox, Crowdbotics, Embrace, Deltastream, Rapid Robotics, Built Robotics, Outrider, Tigera, and ForAllSecure. Previous investments include Box (NYSE:BOX), NGINX (acq. by F5), Streamsets (acq. by Software AG), and Illusive Networks (acq. by Proofpoint). In 2016 he was named to Forbes Magazine’s “30 Under 30” in Venture Capital and the Silicon Valley Business Journal's "40 Under 40".Aaron graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics and Electrical Engineering, and carried a minor in Math.Topics: Enterprise AI Infrastructure Evolution Next wave of industrial robotics Enterprise Security Architecture#CloudInfra#DevTools#AIstack#RoboticsTrends#EnterpriseTech

    1h 3m

  5. FEB 16

    Abbas Haider Ali, VP at GitHub: Customer Success & Innovation

    Abbas Haider Ali is the Vice President of Customer Success at GitHub where he lead all post-sales teams with an org size of 550+, supporting a $2B+ ARR business serving over 150 million developers, including over 90% of the Fortune 100. Prior to GitHub, he was Vice President of Customer & Partner Success at Twilio, leading the Data & Growth business ($300M+ ARR) following Twilio's $3B+ acquisition of Segment. He's held executive leadership roles at industry-defining companies, including xMatters (acquired by Everbridge), Managed Objects (acquired by Novell), Opnet Technologies (acquired by Riverbed), and IBM.With a proven track record in leading both Product and Go-To-Market teams, he has cultivated a multi-disciplinary leadership style that spans solutions engineering, customer success, professional services, support, product management and strategy, product marketing, sales, and business development.In addition to being an operator, he is a General Partner at GTM Operators Network where he invests at seed through growth stage including companies such as Atlan, Metronome, Neon, Weights & Biases and 11x.ai. He also has a strong commitment to mentorship and is passionate about empowering women and underrepresented groups as they rise to leadership positions in the tech industry. Topics: AI's impact on software development and developer workflows Bridging the gap between product and go-to-market strategies Key differences in leading customer success at different company sizes#CustomerSuccess#DevTools#VentureCapital#GTM#GitHub

    1h 7m

  6. FEB 16

    Michael Freedman, CTO at Timescale: PostgreSQL & Real-Time Analytics

    Mike Freedman is the co-founder and CTO of Timescale, as well as the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University.Timescale is building the PostgreSQL database cloud for modern applications, supercharging real-time analytics, intelligence (AI), and transactional workloads. Thousands of global customers, $180M raised from leading VCs. Hiring globally @ timescale.com/careersMike's work broadly focuses on distributed systems, storage systems, networking, and security. He developed CoralCDN (a decentralized content distribution network serving millions of daily users) and Ethane (which formed the basis for the OpenFlow / software-defined networking architecture). He co-founded Illuminics Systems around IP geolocation and intelligence, which was acquired by Quova (now part of Neustar). Mike is also a technical advisor to Stacks/Hiro, building a more decentralized Internet leveraging the blockchain.Honors include the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award, ACM Fellow, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE, given by President Obama). Prior to joining Princeton in 2007, he received his Ph.D. in computer science from NYU's Courant Institute and his S.B. and M.Eng. degrees from MIT.Topics: Academic to entrepreneur journey Distributed systems evolution How AI is changing database requirements and architecture#TimescaleDB#PostgreSQL#DatabaseInnovation#RealTimeAnalytics

    1h 6m

  7. FEB 16

    Sandy Kory, General Partner at Horizon: Seed-Stage Tech Insights

    Sandy Kory founded Horizon in 2022 and has over 15 years of venture capital experience. He was an early investor in Palantir, Canva, BillionToOne, Flutterwave, Sendbird, and several other unicorns. Horizon is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive software.Topics: Evolution of Software Investing Bootstrapped vs. Billion-Dollar Rounds Inside Palantir & Canva's Early Days#SeedStage#StartupGrowth#VentureCapital#BootstrappedVsVC

    1h 6m

  8. FEB 13

    Eugene Lee, Partner at OMERS Ventures: SaaS & Innovation

    Eugene Lee is a Partner at OMERS Ventures. He is currently a board member at Postal (offline marketing automation), WorkRamp (learning engine), Klue (competitive enablement), Mosaic (strategic finance), Fonoa (tax automation), Quorso (co-pilot for retail operations), and an investor in Crunchbase (prospecting for private companies).Eugene is an experienced professional with a demonstrated ability in business, financial and sales operations, general management (GM), business development, growth, online marketing, sales, M&A, and strategy for both Fortune 500 companies and venture-backed startups. He has significant exposure to and interactions with business unit leaders, executive management, and board members. He also has direct experience with consumer, commerce, and SaaS platforms.Topics: The Evolution of SaaS Business ModelsBuilding Sales Operations at ScaleInvesting Trends in Vertical SaaS #SaaS#VerticalSaaS#VentureCapital#OMERSVentures

    59 min
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About

I host a top VC podcast called Smart Venture Podcast (SVPpro.com). Past guests include C-level/VPs of Google, Meta, Amazon, Sephora, Dunkin' Donuts, Chipotle, Pepsi, Instagram, Deloitte, Reddit, Lyft, etc. Managing Partners of top funds (many were featured on the Forbes Midas List) and unicorn founders (founders of Craigslist, Square, Loom, Cruise, etc.) Venture with Grace is my new spin-off series that features top LPs, GPs, solo GPs, Angel Investors, top AI founders, and other experts in tech and business to cover specific domain expertise. Watch this Live on LinkedIn/ YouTube: Grace Gong

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  • Creator
    Grace Gong
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    282
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    © Grace Gong
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