Is there anyone in the startup community who can’t name at least five VCs off the top of his or her head? We see them on panels all the time.
What about the associates? You know, those people who are out there sourcing new deals, building a pipeline of deal flow. Performing due diligence and thus, contributing to whether or not your company will get funding.
It’s important to get to know who they are. They’re the ones who are vetting you and your company and deciding whether or not you’ll get to the next level.
And once you’re in, they’re the ones who will be helping you and tracking your performance.
You might have seen some of their faces around town, and good to put a name – and bio – to it. Today’s associate may well be tomorrow’s partner.
Meet 31 New York based analysts working in venture capital right now. They’re the gatekeepers with their fingers on the pulse and their hands on the purse strings.
Founder’s note: As always this list is in no particular order nor is it a ranking. In fact, the =RAND() function on excel was used to determine order.
Caitlin Strandberg
Associate, Flybridge Capital
Caitlin Strandberg is an associate at , whose investment interests and experience broadly cover companies and technologies across the information technology sector including ad tech, digital media, fin tech, and consumer internet.
Her background: LearnVest, a personal finance start-up in NYC, where she was Director of Business Development, and Behance (acquired by Adobe), a platform for showcasing and discovering creative work online, where she was Associate Director of Business Development.
Strandberg was also the President and Co-founder of Slope Media Group, a student-run media organization based out of Cornell University that includes internet radio, internet television and a digital magazine. In fact, she holds BA in History from Cornell University, with a minor in Science and Technology Studies – and is a former Mission Commander Space Camp. All of which makes her anything but a space cadet.
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Daniel May
Senior Associate, Insight Partners
A Senior Associate, Daniel May joined in 2010.
Insight Ventures is one of the leading full service VC firms in New York, with a particular focus on software, eCommerce, internet, and data-services companies.
May previously worked at The Daily Caller as a business analyst, conducting research in online marketing and content distribution strategy. At Insight, May has been responsible for the sourcing and closing of an acquisition in Australia by a current portfolio company. Always important to have people who think globally.
May graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in Political Economy. In college, the French-speaking May was an avid and successful debater, achieving two trips to the World Universities Debating Championships. C’esttres bon!
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Stephanie Weiner
Analyst, Bain Capital Ventures
Stephanie joined in 2014, in the New York office of the Boston-based firm, and focuses on venture and growth-stage investments in technology-enabled businesses.
She was also named to the Forbes’ list of 30 Under 30 in Venture Capital for 2015.
Prior to joining Bain, Weiner was a Founding Partner at the First Round Capital-seeded Dorm Room Fund, a student-run venture fund. She also spent time investing in and working with later stage businesses at Insight Venture Partners and The Blackstone Group.
Before undertaking her career in venture capital, she worked in business development at Wishberry and co-founded PennLets, the student subletting marketplace in University City.
Weiner graduated Beta Gamma Sigma and summa cum laude from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she concentrated in both Finance and Operations & Information Management. While at Penn, she served on the Weiss Tech House Innovation Fund, co-founded The Bell Society, and was an executive board member of The Eco Reps. She also was a member of Delta DeltaDelta and helped her intramural softball team win the league championship.
She also caught the travel bug after studying abroad in Sydney, Australia (University of New South Wales) and has since backpacked to 21 different countries.
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Alana Tung
Investment Associate, Time Warner Ventures
Alana Tung is an Associate at , which invests in early to mid-stage companies and projects that generate a strategic value for the Time Warner Inc., the multinational media corporation.
She’s also a tour guide with City Running Tours, which offers personalized and group tours in eleven cities across the U.S., accommodating the needs of those who are both tourists and runners. It might explain what she calls her East Coast w(a/o)nderlust.
Last year, she was also part of the Professional Network Leadership Team at Defy Ventures, which transforms “the hustle” of formerly incarcerated Entrepreneurs-in-Training (EITs) by offering intensive leadership development, business plan competitions, executive mentoring, financial investment and start-up incubation.
Prior to all of this, she was an investment banking analyst, first at JP Morgan, then at the Peter J. Solomon Company, but she began her career as a Research Assistant in the Oncology Department at Cornell Weill.
Hey, we don’t exactly work in a linear industry, after all
Tung is Columbia University educated, with a BA in economics.
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Charles Birnbaum
Senior Associate, Bessemer
Charles Birnbaum is a Senior Associate at , having joined the 100-year-old firm in 2013, and where his focus is on investments in the mobile & communications, financial services, and consumer web sectors.
Prior to joining Bessemer, Charles spent three years at location-based mobile application company Foursquare. As an early member of that team, Birnbaum helped to create and bring to market some of Foursquare’s first merchant-facing tools. He then became Director of Mobile & International Business Development for the company, focusing on carrier, OEM, and strategic partnerships, leading business development efforts in key growth markets such as Brazil, Russia and Turkey.
Prior to Foursquare, Birnbaum spent six years in Investment Banking and Equity Capital Markets, where he focused on the Technology, Media and Telecom sectors and executed more than 50 equity and equity-linked public offerings.
He holds an MBA from the Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in History from Northwestern University. Oh, he also mastered two useless classical languages while in high school, and has visited 43 countries. Hope those classical language studies came in handy! (Not.)
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Alice Lloyd George
Associate, RRE
An Associate at , Alice Lloyd George focuses on developing RRE’s emerging technologies investment thesis, concentrating on early stage investments around the blockchain and cryptocurrencies, robotics and artificial intelligence, and virtual reality.
Cool stuff!
Prior to joining the firmLloyd George was at Signia Venture Partners and Bridgewater Associates. She also lived in Beijing for a while, conducting research as a Brookings Institute fellow.
She began her career at The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, covering business and politics in Malaysia, India, Australia, Burma and China.
London-born. Lloyd George graduated with a BA from Princeton and is a Mentor to Princeton’s Entrepreneurship Lab. She sits on the board of LGAF, a foundation supporting charities in Asia. She’s also totally into futurology and enjoys traveling, especially when it means backpacking in far-flung places, well off the beaten path.
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David Rogg
Associate, FirstMark
David Roggis an Associate at , an early stage fund with a focus on software and Internet investments across categories spanning emerging media and advertising, gaming, education, fintech, cloud computing, analytics, and infrastructure startups. Rogg’s focus is on the sourcing and due diligence of new investments, as well as supporting the FirstMark Community.
Rogg previously worked in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, focusing on a number of large technology clients.
Decidedly an overachiever, Rogg was a valedictorian and graduate of Dartmouth College, where he held a dual major in Economics and Spanish Literature, with a minor in Computer Science.
He also plays violin, piano and bass, and while he’d never call himself an athlete, he does love to ski (especially in Stowe) and play tennis and (ping) pong.
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Blake Lyon
Senior Associate, LererHippeau Ventures
Blake Lyon is a Princeton University graduate who is currently a Senior Associates at LererHippeau Ventures, one of the most active in seed stage funds in New York, having invested in close to 200 startups.
Prior to this, Lyon worked in business development at Spanfeller Media Group Inc, and as an analyst at Palatine Capital Partners and, prior to that, Antares Investment Partners.
His fields of expertise include fostering the progress and growth of startups, and helping with business strategy.
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Eric Vreeland
Analyst, Bowery Capital
Eric Vreeland is an Analyst at , an early-stage VC investor focused on helping entrepreneurs build the next generation of B2B market leaders.
Prior to joining the firm, Vreeland was a member of both the Enterprise Marketing and Small Business Acquisition teams at Yext, where he worked on lead generation and branding strategy through blogging, search engine optimization, web development, video marketing, and social media, as well as various paid advertising channels. Prior to that, he Inbound Marketing Manager at HubSpot.
Vreeland is Princeton educated, with an A.B. in Economics.
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Benjamin Krall
Associate, Metamorphic Ventures
Benjamin Krall came to in 2012 with over five years of business development and investment experience at both Boston and New York startups. As a post-JD/MBA associate, Krall specializes in seeding category-shifting early stage technology. Considering that one of Metamorphic’s investment themes is to invest in early stage technologies that can leverage the domain expertise and human capital found in New York’s many industries, Krall is a natural fit.
Prior to MV, he was an investment analyst at Fore River Ventures, renowned for acquiring and operating New England SMBs. He then managed business development at various New York-based MarkTech companies including The Hockey Ad Network and Leadspend, which successfully exited in 2013.
He’s also an entrepreneur himself, having launched his first venture, Tiger Textbooks, an international textbook exchange platform, as an undergraduate at Syracuse University.
Krall holds a JD & MBA from The Massachusetts School of Law and Nichols School of Business in Boston.
On the personal front, Krall enjoyed a successful career playing Junior hockey and working with several professional teams, including his role as the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Junior and Prep School scout.
Among his current passions: competitive road biking, and Bitcoin mining.
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Dimitri Boguslavsky
Analyst, RTP Ventures
An Analyst at , DimitriBoguslavskyjoined the firm in early 2013 and focuses on financial and business due diligence, market research, and identifying and evaluating investment opportunities. He is also responsible for tracking, analysis and reporting of fund activities.
Prior to joining this, he worked in financial services at Canfade Financial, analyzing market opportunities in a variety of growth-stage investments, with strong focus on Internet companies in emerging markets. He also interned at PwC.
Boguslavsky holds a Bachelors degree in Finance and Global Management from Ryerson University.
He may also be the only kiteboarder on this list.
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Josh Nussbaum
Analyst, Metamorphic Ventures
2013 was a big year for Metamorphic Ventures Analyst. That was the year he joined the firm and also organized Tech@NYU, New York City’s largest student technology organization, and helped organize Tech@NYUStartup Week in both the spring and fall. He also helped organize HackingNYU, a University-wide event featuring student technology demos.
Prior to Metamorphic, Josh worked in Business Development for startup, JustDecide, a social decision-making company, and prior to that, he worked in digital marketing and branding at Bayard Advertising.
Nussbaum also graduated with a BS from New York University in 2013.
Like we said, 2013 was a big year for Josh Nussbaum.
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Sumeet Shah
Senior Associate, Brand Foundry
Columbia University-educated, Brand Foundry Senior Associate Sumeet Shah handles the deal sourcing and establishes the partnerships with other venture capital firms, as well as with incubators, private equity firms, and startup founders to optimize the search and vetting process of startups.
Good to know (and follow): his twitter account, @PE_Feeds, which focuses on the inner workings of the private equity, venture capital, startup, and technology industries. Since its inception in June 2010, it has over 5,400 followers with the majority involved with the private equity industry.
Founded last March, Brand Foundry has already made 12 investments, half of which were in startups founded by women.
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Tyler Flint
Associate, Comcast Ventures
Says Tyler Flint, quoting Teddy Roosevelt: “’Dreams are a dime a dozen. It’s their execution that counts.’ Teddy Roosevelt nailed the essence of this business half a century before the first venture investment. I’m excited to work with entrepreneurs that dream big, and to support the process that takes them there.”
And what better place to do that than at Comcast Ventures where, as an Associate, Flint is responsible for evaluating investment opportunities, sourcing new deals, and working with existing portfolio companies. His focus is on a variety of sectors across the digital landscape – always in the New York market.
Prior to joining Comcast, Flint worked in Business Development and Strategy at Hearst Digital, where he helped identify and execute strategic partnerships and investments, and craft monetization strategy. Before that, he was an investment banking analyst at GCA Savvian, focusing on digital media private capital and M&A advisory.
Flint holds a BBA in Finance, Marketing, and Chinese from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.
Fun Fact: He was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, as was his mom, Comcast, and Elvis. Presley, not Costello.
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Jim Hao
Associate, FirstMark Capital
Work is an intellectual pursuit, according to Jim Hao, an Associate at FirstMark Capital, where he focuses on the sourcing and due diligence of new investments, as well as supporting the FirstMark Community. He’s in the right spot, as he’s passionate about technology, entrepreneurship, venture capital, growth equity, and elping businesses grow and creating value along the way.
Prior to joining FirstMark, Hao was on the investment team at Insight Venture Partners, sourcing and evaluating new investments, conducting customer, market, and financial due diligence, and where his sector focus was growth-stage SaaS, analytics, infrastructure, security, and Big Data companies.
Hao graduated from Princeton University magna cum laude, with a degree in Politics. His senior thesis: Senior thesis titled “Aid, Arms, and Autocracy: Toward a Model of United States – Africa Relationsrelations.”
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Zak Schwarzman
Associate, Gotham Ventures
An Associate at Gotham Ventures, Zak Schwarzman is actually back at Gotham Ventures for the second time, having worked there as a Summer Associate back in 2012.
Not that he wasn’t busy in the interim. As an inSITE Fellow, he consulted to several early- and growth-stage technology startups, from pre-revenue firms like BestVendor (helping them to raise their first round), to young companies like Frame (negotiating their exit), to more mature companies like 2U (helping them to expand to new verticals).
He also served as Vice President for Special Programming, which involved sourcing and coordinating projects at later-stage startups, venture capital firms, angel groups and accelerators for upwards of 70 Fellows per semester. Prior to this, he was an MBA fellow at Canaan Partners.
He became a Kauffman Fellow Finalist at the end of 2013 and is still involved with the two-year program. The Kauffman Fellows Program identifies, develops, and networks global leaders in the venture capital industry. Finalists who match with a fund become Fellows and, while employed full-time by their sponsoring fund, receive training and mentoring from top VCs.
He was also a Fellow at Learn Capital, an early stage education technology investment firm, where he sourced, evaluated, and performed due diligence on potential investments in the education technology sector, and an MBA Associate at AOL Ventures, where he did the same across consumer internet verticals, with a focus on ecommerce, local discovery, and online gaming sectors.
Tulane University educated, he also studied abroad for a year at the London School of Economics, where he was first in his class.
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Paul Bianco
Senior Associate, ffventures
Paul Bianco joined ff Venture Capital in early 2013 as an Analyst, and is currently a Senior Associate at the firm, which not only invest in early stage companies, but also offer accelerator services – hands-on support through their in-house operating team, plus a proprietary network of outside executives who work with portfolio companies on an as-needed basis.
Bianco is a member of the Acceleration & Diligence Teams, working alongside portfolio companies, and assisting them with developing financial models, budgeting, planning, financial analysis, and other financial matters. Bianco also leads the financial piece of ffVC’s Due Diligence process.
Prior to this, he worked in consulting and asset management at both AXA Financial and Protiviti. He graduated from the State University of New York at Albany with a BS in Accounting.
Bianco is also a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York.
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Jeff Weinstein
Associate, Lux Capital
Jeff Weinstein is an Associate with Lux Capital, which focuses on energy, life sciences, biopharmaceutical, healthcare, and technology.
Speaking of energy and health, Weinstein is an elite distance runner, competing for the New York Athletic Club, and finishing second in his age group at the 2011 New York City Marathon in 2:33. He was also a Bronze medalist at the 2009 World Maccabiah Games and aspires to break the four-minute barrier for the mile.
Prior to joining Lux, he was a Marketing and Investor Relations Analyst at Dunbar Capital, a multistrategy fund of hedge funds. He is currently a regular contributing editor for Forbes.
His passions: foreign affairs, film, food and travel.
Weinstein earned his B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Sebastien Park
Associate, Collaborative Fund
An Associate at Collaborative Fund, Sebastien Park is responsible for evaluating new investment opportunities and supporting the fund’s portfolio companies.
Collaborative Fund is a leading source of seed capital for creative entrepreneurs changing the world.
Parks’ background is in research and analysis, having worked at Alan K. Campbell Public Affairs Institute (researcher), Evans & Associates (analyst), Marcus & Millichap (research analyst), et al, and interning at Christie’s in the Old Masters Paintings Specialist Department.
Park graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Syracuse University, with degrees in Policy Studies, International Relations, and Philosophy & Art.
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Weston Reynolds
Senior Analyst, Greycroft Partners
Weston Reynolds is a member of Greycroft Partner’s investment team, an early stage venture capital firm in New York and Los Angeles. Prior to joining Greycroft, Reynoldswas a management consultant for Deloitte Consulting’s Strategy & Operations practice, advising clients in media, telecom, healthcare, and financial services. He also spent time at InsightSquared, a Boston-based business analytics startup. Reynolds is passionate about innovation in legacy industries, especiallyfintech, the on-demand economy, retail, and enterprise SaaS.
He attended the University of Virginia as a Jefferson Scholar where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in Political & Social Thought.
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Jesse Beyroutey
Associate, IA Ventures
An Associate at IA Ventures, Jesse Beyroutey likes to work with tech companies in all stages of their development and has a passion for marketing, strategy, and product management. IA’s focus is on early-stage companies developing breakthrough tools, technologies and analytics for managing and extracting value from Big Data, both structured and unstructured.
Prior to IA, where he’s been since 2011, he worked at Insight Venture Partnerswhere, he focused on gaming, payments, travel, and enterprise software investments.
Beyroutey held several jobs while still in college: he was a product manager on Microsoft SharePoint, an intern for Stephen Starr Restaurants, and a consultant at a nonprofit in Mexico City called The Hunger Project.
Beyroutey graduated with a M.Sc. and a B.Sc. in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.Sc. in marketing and operations from Wharton, as part of the M&T program. While at Penn, he was also president of Wharton’s undergrad marketing club.
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Sabira Lakhani
Associate, City Light Capital
An Associate at City Light Capital, Sabira Lakhani is also a budding social entrepreneur who cares about sustainable finance and waste management, which makes this early stage investment firms that sits at the intersection of social impact and financial returns a natural fit for the NYU Leonard N. Stern School of Business graduate.
She started with the company as an intern in 2011, after becoming a Catherine B. Reynolds Scholar in Social Entrepreneurship, a program that provides young social entrepreneurs with cross-disciplinary skills, tools, and networks needed to advance their efforts to realize scalable, pattern-breaking solutions to society’s most intractable problems.
Before joining City Light full time, Lakhani was a strategy and transformation consultant at IBM, focusing on operational projects and working with clients such as Cisco, UTC, and L’Oreal. She was also an environmental consultant at Great Forest, Inc., where she developed and implemented strategies and programs that reduced environmental impact and costs for clients in the US.
Outside of City Light Capital, she served as the National Finance Manager for The Mosaic Project, a volunteer run nonprofit offering twelve regional summer camps to kids ages 6-13, annually.
And she’s a huge Harry Potter fan.
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Josh Harder
Senior Associate, Bessemer
Josh Harder, a Senior Associate at Bessemer Venture Partners, joined the firm in 2014 and focuses on investments in the software, mobile, and telecommunications industries
Harder came to Bessemer fromAccion Venture Lab, an investment fund focused on financial services for the poor in emerging markets, and at Ruma, a mobile banking startup in Indonesia. He started his career at the Boston Consulting Group and has also worked in the mango and tea industries in Kenya and Rwanda. Why not mix it us a bit? In fact, he has worked in eight different countries.
Harder holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a BA from Stanford University.
According to his online bio, he has also spent 310 consecutive Sundays reading the New York Times’ Weddings and Celebration section – and we’re not sure when that fact was last updated.
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Matt Gatto
Senior Associate, Insight Ventures
Matt Gatto joined Insight Ventures, one of the leading full service VC firms in NYC, as Senior Associate in 2010. His focus: high-growth software and SaaS businesses across infrastructure, healthcare and enterprise applications.
He also has experience with leveraged buyouts.
Gatto has worked with Insight’s investments in AirWatch, Cherwell Software, Kinnser Software, Shopify and Zumba Fitness, and works with a number of other infrastructure and software/SaaS portfolio companies as well.
Prior to IV, he worked at Verizon Information Serviceswhere he gained experience in online advertising optimization at Verizon Information Services; at Deutsche Bank Asia, where got first-hand experience in debt restructuring and issuance; and at Merrill Lynch, where his focus was electronic communications risk management.
Gatto graduated with high honors from the University of Pennsylvania, with a BS in Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School.
His personal likes: golf (and most other sports), the outdoors, trying new foods and craft brews, and travel.
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Sutian Dong
Senior Associate, FirstMark Capital
Senior Associate of the early stage venture capital firm FirstMark Capital, Sutian Dong is responsible for evaluating new investment opportunities. Sutian Dong has had a varied career over the years. She began as a co-organizer at Ultra-Light Startups, and then went on to work in sales and marketing at MarketFactory, a FirstMark portfolio company developing software applications for high-speed trading platforms.
She moved on to serve as the director of marketing at Norisol Ferrari LLC,a New York-based luxury outerwear brand, leaving to become a Teaching at NYU Stern School of Business.
Dongearned her B.S. in Finance and Marketing from Stern, where she was a National Merit List and made the Dean’s List.
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Graham Brown
Senior Associate, Softbank Ventures
Graham joined SoftBank Capital in 2014 and is based in the company’s NYC office, where he focuses on Seed and Series A opportunities. Specifically, on enterprise and consumer mobile, consumer Internet, and local marketplaces.
Softbank Ventures focuses on mobile applications and devices, ecommerce, online advertising, social media, gaming, and cloud-based enterprise services, investing in early stage and growth stage companies.
Prior to joining firm, Brown helped lead digital strategy at Life Line Screening, where he grew ecommerce and online customer acquisition for the largest direct-to-consumer company in the preventive health space.
That was his foray into non-venture world. Prior to this, Brown worked as an Associate at Polaris Partners, a $3.5 billion multistage venture capital firm. While at Polaris, Graham focused on software, consumer Internet and financial technology investments, and began his career at CanaccordGenuity, where he was an Investment Banking Associate in the Software, Digital Media and Internet Technology group.
He earned a BA in Economics with distinction from Colby College, and was an MBA with honors at Columbia University.
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Julian Moncada
Analyst, LererHippeau Ventures
Julian Moncada is an Analyst at LererHippeau Ventures, one of the most active early stage funds in New York.
He’s also a Wiscontrepreneur. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin School of Business with a BBA in Finance, Investment & Banking and International Business, he is also the recipient of a Wiscontrepreneur Scholarship, which is awarded to students from all fields of study who demonstrate an affinity for entrepreneurship.
That’s Moncada, who, besides his day job at LHV, also develop mobile apps, such as brkr, an app that helps eliminate awkward silences by facilitating conversations, and which can be found on the app store.
His experience also includes having been a Senior Investment Analyst at Prudential Capital Group and interning at General Mills, Inc.
As for being entrepreneurial, he was also co-owner and founder of Mara Accessories, a family-run business that sells hand-made jewelry and accessories and donates its profits to orphans in Colombia.
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Alexander Pease
Analyst, Union Square Ventures
Although his current focus is on venture capital analytics at Union Square Ventures, which is easily one of the best known VC firms in New York, Alexander Pease is an inventor at heart, and has been a part of many research teams looking for new technologies to make lives easier, including the Near-Eye Tool for Refractive Assessment (NETRA), which is an eyepiece that turns any mobile phone into a portable optometry diagnostic device.Besides working on NETRA, Pease has also dabbled in game development and UI development for mobile apps.
Surprisingly, along with his Princeton Bachelors degree in Physics, Pease has studied piano performance at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, which is where he picked up the Mandarin Chinese. And to put his Mandarin Chinese to good use, Pease has also worked as a translator.
Currently his focus is on venture capital analysis.
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Steve Berg
Senior Analyst, RTP Ventures
Steve Berg is a financial and strategy analyst for RTP Ventures, where he focuses on driving a methodical approach to the RTP investment decision-making process. His investment background is in datacenter technologies with experience in both public acquisitions and private strategic investments.
He also occasional engages in angel investing, as part of New York Angels and Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator.
Berg spent most of his nearly 20-year career in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street. Most recently he was Principal and lead consultant of Steven Berg LLC, a consultancy he founded, focused on corporate finance activities of small and medium sized technology companies. Prior to this, he was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Emulex Corporation, an NYSE listed company with revenues of $450 million, where he drove the strategic agenda and led the identification and execution of new business opportunities including strategic investments, mergers and acquisitions, and internal innovation. Before this, he worked as a technology equity analyst on both the sell side (at Punk, Ziegel & Co.) and the buy side (at Train Smith Counsel), where he established strong industry contacts, developed in-depth industry knowledge and honed his skills in finance and analytics.
Berg holds a BS in Business Administration from the Farmer School of Business of Miami University and a Master of Business Administration from Northern Illinois University . In addition, He also holds a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
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Jonathan Libov
Analyst, Union Square Ventures
The first thing to notice about Jonathan Libov is his active social media presence – he has had 16,700+ tweets till date. He obviously has a lot to say, as one might expect from an Analyst at Union Square Ventures also reflects that. Prior to this, he has worked as a product manager at Appsfire, project manager at Wellness Layers, and in advertising and content operations at Joost, a desktop, web and mobile platform for premium video content.
He does have his entrepreneurial side: before the days of the iPhone, he was the cofounder at Lasso Mobile, which was a precursor to Tinder. He also holds a patent on “Method and apparatus of a location-based network service for mutual social notification.”
A Vassar College graduate with a degree in Cognitive Science, he actually began his career as a research technician in the Neuroscience department at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
He can also lift 100 lbs. over his head with very little effort. Just FYI.
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