Ramy Adeeb
Managing Partner
An entrepreneur and investor, Ramy is founder and CEO of Snip.it (Acquired by Yahoo, where
he served as a product executive) and one of the earliest engineers at Tellme Networks
(Acquired by Microsoft). Ramy started his investing career at Khosla Venture where he worked
with investors Vinod Khosla and Pierre Lamond on many investments including Groupme
(acquired by Skype), Square (NASDAQ:SQ), and Storify (acquired by LiveFyre). He holds a BA
and MS in Computer Science from Harvard and an MBA from Stanford.
Samit Kalra
Partner
SaaS & Marketplaces
Samit was working as an investment banker in Australia when he first heard about the venture
capital industry. It resonated with him so much that in 2017, he packed up his bags and
moved to San Francisco. He began his investing career at AngelList, helping over 150
founders close early funding rounds. From there, he joined the investing team at Bain
Capital Ventures where he ran the firm's early-stage fund program which generated 15 seed
investments. Samit is a keen student of the industry and blogs about his learnings (see his
investment framework and blog posts
here).
Mark Percival
Partner
Infrastructure + Dev
Mark's journey in software development began with writing an IRC bot and grew into a career
driven by a passion for open source. His early work in mobile-focused open source projects in
the pre-iPhone era led to an early role at Twitter, where he helped develop their first mobile products.
Later, as CTO at Snip.it, acquired by Yahoo, he focused on integrating Tumblr into the Yahoo platform
as a software architect. At 1984, Mark assesses potential investments and aids portfolio companies
in executing on their technical visions. He can be found on GitHub where he maintains several popular
open source libraries and has contributed to more than 200 others.
Farzad Soleimani
Partner
Healthcare
A VC by day and an ER physician by night, Farzad has over 15 years of experience at the
intersection of healthcare and entrepreneurship. He is the founder of eTherapi, a pioneering
telemedicine company, and the founding co-director of the Texas Medical Center Biodesign
Innovation Program. Farzad started his investing career at Mohr Davidow Ventures, completed
his residency training at Baylor and earned his MBA, MD, MS, and BS from Stanford
University. He is on faculty at Baylor Medical School, Rice Business School, and Rice
Bioengineering Department.
Aaron Michel
Operating Partner
Named to venture capital’s 40 Under 40 by VC Journal in 2020, Aaron is the co-founder of
PathSource, an edtech startup that rose to be the top career app in the App Store until its
acquisition in 2017. Aaron also created the online game Fantasy Politics for the 2012
election. Inducted into the annual Innovation Rockstar list by the Boston Business Journal,
Aaron has written for Entrepreneur Magazine, Fast Company and a range of business outlets.
He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School of
Government.
Andy Rachleff
Founder of Benchmark Capital
Michael Smith
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University
Jim Messina
Chief of staff for operations under President Obama
Sir Mohamed Mansour
Chairman of Mansour Group, a global conglomerate and GM's largest distributor
globally
Kyle Oppenheim
VP of Engineering at Groupon, director of eng at Facebook
Mark Percival
First mobile engineer at Twitter, Co-founder and CTO at Snipit, Architect at
Yahoo
Karim Wahba
Head of Data Science at Fairmarkit, and previously at Stitch Fix, Uber and Ginger.io
Drew Uher
Founder and CEO at Homelight
Jennifer Pollock
Head of content Marketing at Square
Greg Pal
Founder and CBO at Automat.ai and VP at Nuance
Daniele Codega
Partner at Work & Co. Previously Head of Design at Reuters, Creative Director
at HuffPost