Grace Gong

Conferences: https://www.smartventuremedia.com Speakers include: ​Grace Gong (Founder & CEO of Smart Venture Media) Jeetu Patel (President of Cisco) Justin Osofsky (Chief Partnership Officer of Meta, former COO of Instagram) Marc Boroditsky (CRO of Nebius) ​Shravan Narayen (Partner of IVP) ​Dave Zilberman (GP of Norwest Venture Partners) ​Casber Wang (Partner of Sapphire Ventures) ​Ilya Kirnos (Founding Partner & CTO of SignalFire) ​Nikhil Sachdev (Managing Director of Insight Partners) ​Tushar Gupta (Managing Director of Qualcomm Ventures) ​James da Costa (Partner of Andreessen Horowitz) ​Anna Patterson (Founder of Ceramic. ai, Formerly VP of Google & Managing Partner of Gradient Ventures) ​Miloni Madan Presler (Partner at IVP) ​Anna Barber (Partner of M13) ​Thomas Jueng (Senior Managing Director of Samsung Ventures) Matt Vail (Head of VC Partnerships of OpenAI) ​Eylul Kayin (Partner of Gradient Ventures) ​Tejas Manohar (Co-CEO of Hightouch) Lauri Moore (Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners) Kenan Saleh (Partner, a16z) Madison Faulkner (Partner, NEA) Andrew Brackin (Partner, Gradient Ventures) ​Megh Gautam (Chief Product Officer of Crunchbase) ​Meagen Eisenberg (Chief Marketing Officer of Samsara) ​Tim Shi (Co-Founder of Cresta) Lucas Swisher (General Partner of Coatue Management) ​Susana Rojas (Partner of Index Ventures) Dipti Borkar (VP & GM, Microsoft Azure Data) Kevin Smith (CIO, Lyft) Deepa Gopinath (CIO, MongoDB) Patti Degnan (Partner, a16z) Sonali Singh (Partner, Sequoia Capital) ​Samantha Wu (Chief Marketing Officer of Eventbrite) Alex Mashrabov (CEO & Co-founder, Higgsfield AI) Olivia Nottebohm (COO, Box) Scott Holden (CMO, Vanta) Rashida Hodge (CVP, Microsoft) Dave Steer (CMO, Webflow) Vijay Krishnan (Founder, Turing) Chase Lochmiller (Founder, Crusoe) ​Many thanks to our amazing sponsors: ​Amazon AWS Snowflake Vercel ​SVB ​Sequoia ​Nebius Wilson Sonsini Hubspot for Startups ​Rackhouse Ventures ​Wayo and more...

I go LIVE with a VC/ LP/ founder daily here on LinkedIn. Podcasts guests: Partner @ Sequoia - James Flynn Partner @ a16z - Emily Bennett Partner @ Lightspeed - Hemant Mohapatra Managing Partner @ Greycroft - Ian Saginaw Partner @ NEA - Aaron Jacobson General Partner @ IVP - Somesh Dash Partner @ Bessemer - Mike Droesch Partner @ Kleiner Perkins - Aditya Naganath Managing Director @ Insight Partners - Nikhil Sachdev Partner @ Sapphire Ventures - Rajeev Dham Managing Partner @ Pear VC - Mar Hershenson General Partner @ Gradient Ventures - Darian Shirazi General Partner @ Lux Capital - Shahin Farshchi General Partner @South Park Common- Mark Jacobstein Partner @ Upfront Ventures - Aditi Maliwal Partner @ Primary Ventures - Ben Sun Partner @ Menlo Ventures - Steve Sloane Partner @ M13 - Brent Murri Partner @ Madrona - Vivek Ramaswami Partner @ Bain Capital Ventures - Saanya Ojha Partner @ True Ventures - Tony Conrad Co-Founder and Partner @ Tribe Capital - Arjun Sethi Managing Partner @ Eclipes Venture - Lior Susan Managing Partner @ Left Lane Capital - Jason Fiedler Founder & Managing Partner @Ahoy Capital - Chris Douvos Partner @ Vintage Investment Partners - Shira Eting Founder & General Partner @ Boldstart - Ed Sim Founder & Partner @ Defy VC - Neil Sequeira Partner @ Cendana Capital - Kelli Fontaine Founder & CEO @Techstars - David Cohen Partner @ Redpoint Ventures - Jordan Segall Founding Partner @ Wing Venture Capital - Peter Wagner Founding Partner @ NewView Capital - Ravi Viswanathan General Partner @ DCVC - Alan Cohen Managing Partner @645 Ventures - Nnamdi Okike General Partner @ Foundation Capital - Ashu Garg Managing Partner @ Base 10 - Adeyemi Ajao Partner @ Lead Edge Capital - Mitchell Green Managing Partner @ General Catalyst - Niko Bonatsos General Partner @ AlleyCorp - Abe Murray Partner @ 500 Global - Clayton Bryan Founding Partner @Acrew Capital - Mark Kraynak Chief Investment Strategist @ Ark Invest - Charlie Roberts And more …

Craig Newmark - Founder of Craigslist Jim McKelvey - Co-founder of Square Justin Osofsky - Chief Partnership Officer of Meta, ex-COO of Instagram Chris Slowe - CTO of Reddit Todd Kaplan - CMO of Kraft Heinz, ex- CMO of Pepsi Suzanne Kounkel - CMO of Deloitte Elizabeth Jarvis-Shean - Chief Corporate Affairs Officer of DoorDash Daniel Kan - Co-founder & CPO of Cruise Matt Madrigal - CTO of Pinterest Ben Kus - CTO of Box Ali Dasdan - CTO of Dropbox Pat Casey - CTO of ServiceNow Denise Persson - CMO of Snowflake  Ryan Gavin - CMO of Slack Deepak Agarwal — Chief AI Officer at LinkedIn Henry Schuck - CEO of Zoominfo Tony Stubblebine - CEO of Medium Chris Koehler - CMO of Twilio Robert Rosenberg - 35-Year CEO of Dunkin' Donuts, ex-Board Member @Domino's Pizza Monty Moran - ex-CO-CEO Chipotle Mexican Grill Jeetu Patel - CPO of Cisco, ex-CPO & CSO @ Box George Hu - President of Firework, former COO of Salesforce and Twilio Rob Chesnut - ex Chief Ethics Officer @Airbnb, SVP @eBay & Chegg Olivia Nottebohm - CRO of Notion, ex COO of Dropbox, ex VP at Google Marvin Chow - VP of Google Erin Egan - VP & Chief Privacy Officer, Public Policy at Facebook / Meta Ethan Evans - VP of Amazon Howard Wright - VP of Nvidia Kim Scott - NYT&WSJ Bestselling Author of Radical Candor, ex-CEO coach of Dropbox &Twitter Chris Voss - WSJ Bestselling Author Aparna Chennapragada CPO @ Microsoft AI for Work, ex CPO of Robinhood, ex VP of Google Sumit Chauhan - CVP of Microsoft Dave Steer - CMO of Webflow Roman Chernin - Co-Founder of Nebius Gary Pinkus - Chairman of McKinsey North America +more Ranked by Listen Notes as one of the top 1.5% most popular shows globally Listenership 110 + countries Nominated by Asian American Podcasters Association for Golden Crane Awards Apple:https://apple.co/3d6bGea Spotify: http://bit.ly/gracegong Website: https://www.smartventurepod.com YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube

G-Fellows brings together an exclusive cohort of the most driven undergraduate students from top universities across the country for four weeks from April 10 to May 10. Each G-Fellow sources promising startups, tracks emerging industry trends, and nominates founders to pitch leading investors. G-Fellows are guided by top VC and founder advisors, and get direct access to some of the hottest startups in Silicon Valley through hands-on workshops designed to help them land their dream internship and become truly industry-ready. This is real experience — the network, the reps, and the credibility to walk into any room in venture or tech and belong there. Grace Gong founded G-Fellows — part of Smart Venture Media — alongside Founding Fellow Siya Verma, who has been with the program from day one, to bridge the gap between the most talented students in the country and the venture world they're trying to break into.

Investor in AI startups, portolios including Vantager, Hyperspell (YC F25), Orange Slice (YC S25), Espa Labs, Hyperbolic, AgentHub (YC S25), Clodo (YC S25), Jam, Ditto AI, Hostie, The Residency, HydraDB, Generative Alpha, Emancro Robotics, LD Talent, among others. Advisor to Quill.

https://www.smartventuremedia.com Speakers include: ​​Grace Gong, Founder & CEO, Smart Venture Media ​Justin Osofsky, VP, Meta, ex-COO, Instagram ​Marc Boroditsky, CRO, Nebius ​Chase Lochmiller, CEO, Crusoe ​Vijay Krishnan, Founder & CTO, Turing ​Olivia Nottebohm, COO, Box ​Rashida Hodge, CVP, Microsoft ​Kevin Smith, CIO, Lyft ​Deepa Gopinath, CIO, MongoDB ​Scott Holden, CMO, Vanta ​Kenan Saleh, Partner, a16z ​Sonali Singh, Partner, Sequoia ​Lauri Moore, Partner, Bessemer ​Madison Faulkner, Partner, NEA ​Caroline Duffy, Partner, Cowboy Ventures ​Andrew Brackin, Partner, Gradient Ventures ​Boris Sofman, CEO, Bedrock Robotics ​Alexander Mashrabov, CEO, Higgsfield AI ​Dan O’Connell, CEO, Front ​Jake Stauch, CEO, Serval ​Rong Yan, CTO, HeyGen ​Dave Steer, Chief Marketing Officer, Webflow ​Dan Tobin, VP, Databricks ​Namrata Ram, VP, Together AI ​Mark Goldberger, VP, Metaview ​Daren Moffett, VP, LangChain ​Jules Gsell, ex-VP, Databricks ​Lauren Schwartz, Head of Claude Codes Sales, Anthropic ​Patricia Degnan, Partner, a16z ​David Kwon, Partner, Abstract Ventures ​Yousuf Khan, Venture Partner, Ridge Ventures ​Anarghya Vardhana, Venture Partner, Maveron ​Ashish Uchill, GTM, ElevenLabs, ex-VP, Brex ​Alan Du, Partner, M12 ​Radhika Malik, Partner, Dell Technologies Capital ​Shomik Ghosh, Partner, Sierra Ventures ​Brent Murri, Partner, M13 ​Joseph Ros, Partner, Entrepreneur First ​Daniel Suh, Partner, Gold House Ventures ​Anand Chandrasekaran, Managing Partner, Celesta Capital ​Parul Saini, ex-Head of IT, Uber ​Tushar N Shah, Chief Product Officer, Uniphore ​Mo Islam, Partner, Threshold Ventures ​Steve Frey, Co-Founder & CEO, AGI Inc ​Amir Kabir, Founding & Managing Partner, Overlook Ventures

America’s Largest Venture Firm for Individual Investors Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights ’24) #1 Most Active Venture Firm in the US (PitchBook ’22 & ’23) World’s Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company ’22) Alumni Ventures collaborates with elite angel investors — a select group of co-investors chosen for their track record, sector expertise, and community connections. The AV Venture Scout Program is an extensive network of independent angels, entrepreneurs, and connectors. Venture Scouts share attractive investment opportunities with AV.

Honored to have joined Berkeley SkyDeck as an advisor, alongside an incredible group of tech leaders—like the co-founders of YouTube, Tesla and Synopsys Inc, the VP of Robinhood, Box and others from top tech companies.

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Genzon Group (China) tenants included Microsoft and Tencent, etc; San Francisco tenants included Amazon/ Twitch.tv, Groupon, etc • Assisted in leading a cross-functional team to complete acquisition of real estate properties; collaborated with bankers, trade specialists and real estate financiers to meet the company’s global expansion needs. (Reports by Sillicon Valley Business Journal goo.gl/JMNKiA & goo.gl/aQHnEp)

• Assisted the managing director in building DreamEast Pictures Production company which produced the first Chinese produced American Animation TV Series, Valt, the Wonder Deer.

Qihoo 360 (No.2 Search Engine Website in China) • Created marketing campaign to promote 360 Entertainment. Collaborated with Chinese A list movie stars and singers.

(high school) • Created English newspaper "Huijia Voice" • Created digital entertainment magazine "Huijia Voice - E"