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As a founder, when you apply to Alpha, you automatically apply to an elite group of first hires at tech unicorns, renowned operators, and pre-seed angels (all curated by Afore). These people see Alpha founders as Afore sees them.
Experts in their fields who have been there, done that. Operator angels and pre-seed VC's who invest with conviction, and have years of experience guiding early-stage founders.
AJ Frank
#Product
Angel - Director of Product at Facebook
Previously: Director of Product at Dropbox; GM of Vine at Twitter, BizDev at Google
Allison Barr Allen
#Founder
Angel - Trail Run Capital
Previously: Co-Founder & COO at Fast, Head of Global Product Ops (Money Team) at Uber
Allison Pickens
#GTM
VC - Founder & GP at The New Normal Fund
Previously: COO at Gainsight, EIR at Bessemer, Consulting at Bain & BCG
Amber Illig
#Operations
VC - General Partner at The Council Capital
Previously: Program Management Lead at Cruise, Snap, Apple
Andrew Endicott
#Fintech #Fundraising
VC - Co-Founder & GP at Gilgamesh Ventures
Co-Founder and President at Petal (raised $750m+), Investment Banking at Lazard
Ankur Pansari
#Founder
VC - GP at Divide by Zero, VP at Bling Capital
CEO at Purplemana, previously: Head of VC / Startup Partnerships at Google
Badrul Farooqi
#Product
Angel Investor
Previously: Product at Figma & Square, QA at Teespring, Hook Studios, Expedia
Chris Fong
#Community
Angel - Founder at Xoogler.co
Previously: BD & Partnerships & Sales at Google, Marketing Manager at Expedia
Dan Rumennik
#Product #Operations
VC - Co-Founder & GP at AirAngels
Previously: Global Operations at Airbnb, VP at Toptal, Product at WalmartLabs
David Ongchoco
#Growth #GTM
VC - Co-Founder at Comma Capital
Growth & Marketing at Rutter, previously: GTM (Sales & Growth) at Amplitude
Em Herrera
#Community
VC - Investor at Night Ventures
Founder at The Wiress, previously: VC at BBG & Harlem, Marketing at NBC & Boston Globe
Hayden Simmons
#BizDev
VC - General Partner at RaliCap
Previously: BizDev / Strategy at Facebook, Migo, Juvo, TheRoute.co, Crossboard Mobile
Itamar Novick
#BizDev #Finance
VC - Managing Partner at Recursive Ventures
Previously: Chief Business Officer at Life360, VC at Canvas Ventures, Product at Gigya
Ivan Kirigin
#Product
VC - Founder at Tango.vc
Previously: Product at Lyft (Level 5) at Dropbox, SWE at Facebook and iRobot
Karine Hsu
#Branding
Angel - Partner at Slope
Previously: Growth at Verishop, CEO at And Comfort (YC S17), Strategy at Affirm
Kelly Graziadei
#Marketing
VC - Founder & GP at F7 Ventures
Previously: Director of Product Marketing at Facebook, MD Account Mgmt at Yahoo
Kintan Brahmbhatt
#Product
Angel - Co-Founder & CEO at Olto.com
Previously: GM & Co-Founder of Amazon Podcasts & Head of Amazon Music
Nitesh Banta
#Founder
Angel - Co-Founder & CEO at B12
Previously: Co-Founder at Rough Draft Ventures, VC at General Catalyst
Rex Salisbury
#Fintech
VC - Founder & GP at Cambrian
Previously: Fintech Partner at a16z, Product Engineer at Checkr and Sindeo
Rohini Pandhi
#Product
Angel - Product Lead at Block
Previously: Product Manager at Pubnub, Rackspace, Nodeable
Sameed Musvee
#Finance
Angel - Strategic Finance at Chime
Previously: Sr Mgr Finance at Doordash & AppNexus, Associate at Wells Fargo & Citi
Somrat Niyogi
#BizDev
Angel - Head of BizDev at Gusto
Previously: VP BizDev at Clari, CEO and Co-Founder at Stitch and Miso
Sri Batchu
#Growth #GTM
Angel - Head of Growth at Ramp
Previously: Head of Growth at Instacart, VP of Operations at Opendoor
Sriram Krishnan
#Growth #GTM
VC - Investor at Kearny Jackson
Previously: Growth at Spotify & Tinder, Advisor at Notion, Figma, AngelList, Calm
Tim Chen
#Engineering #DevTools
VC - GP at Essence VC
Previously: Eng Leader at Grid.ai, Tendermint, Cloudera, Co-Founder at Hyperpilot
Turner Novak
#Consumer #Commerce
VC - Founder at Banana Capital
Previously: Investor at Gelt, Founder at TDN Capital, Investment Analyst at Van Andel
William Smith
#Founder
VC - Investor at Octave
Previously: Product at WeWork, CEO & Chairman at Euclid (acq by WeWork)
Venky Karnam
#Engineering #DevTools
Angel
Previously: Eng at Google, AdMob (acq by Google), Yahoo
Wiz Abdulla
#Branding
VC - Co-Founder at Spacecadet
Previously: Serial founder (Hazel, Rise People) of HR and people startups
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Investors, see top Alpha deals right as Afore sees them