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? Join me for Week 10 of Venture with Grace, my daily LinkedIn Live show, where I bring you insightful conversations with VCs, LPs, and

#152 Sophia Amoruso is the founder and managing partner of Trust Fund, an early-stage venture fund focused exclusively (yet broadly) on investing in tech-enabled products

I am officially launching my new series, Venture With Grace! Every day, I will bring in 1 amazing VC/ LP/ founder/ operator from my friend

I hosted my first in-person event for Smart Venture Podcast. Many amazing guests from the show, listeners, VCs, and founders in the community showed up!

#151 Dave Long is the CEO of Orangetheory Fitness. He leads the company’s franchise model, regional development, and product development strategy. After founding the company

#150 Jake Seid is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Ballistic Ventures, a VC firm focused on early-stage cybersecurity and security-related venture investments, with a

#149 Sergio Monsalve is the Founding Partner of Roble Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs building human enablement technologies. Before founding Roble Ventures,

#148 Ambar Bhattacharyya is the Managing Director at Maverick Ventures. During his venture capital career at Maverick Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Bain Capital Ventures,

#147 Gaurav Jain is the Co-founder of Afore Capital, one of the top venture funds ($300M AUM) dedicated to pre-seed investments. Some of the investments Gaurav

#146 Rebecca is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Canvas Ventures where she leads early-stage investments in Fintech, Healthtech, and AI. Rebecca has been named

#145 OkCupid’s Co-Founder, ex-The Match Group’s CEO, Corazon Capital’s Managing Director, Sam Yagan Sam Yagan is the co-founder and Managing Director of Corazon Capital, a

#144 David Rogier is the founder and CEO of MasterClass, the streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world’s best across a wide range

#143 Dave Zilberman is a General Partner at Norwest Venture Partners. Norwest Venture Partners manages more than $12.5 billion in capital. They have invested in

#142 Karl Alomar is the Managing Partner at M13, a consumer technology venture capital firm with a $400 million fund to invest Seed and Series A

#141 Mitchell Green is the founder and Managing Partner of Lead Edge Capital, a growth-stage investment fund with over $5B AUM investing $25 million to $300 million across

#140 Steve Jang is the Founder and Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures. An early-stage VC firm raised $312 million across two new funds in 2022.

Sponsor Spotlight: Alumni Ventures’ CEO Mike Collins Welcome to the Smart Venture Podcast’s sponsor spotlight, where we take a moment to highlight the companies making

#139 Michael Jones is the founder of studio and venture fund Science Inc., where he helps founders scale highly profitable and successful businesses. Mike’s portfolio includes

#138 Matt Madrigal is the Vice President and General Manager of Merchant Shopping at Google. In this role, Matt leads the product and engineering teams that

#137 Peter Wagner is a Founding Partner of Wing Venture Capital, where he focuses on the Modern Enterprise, an agile workplace built on data and powered