Early-stage founders, hear up! You will have a entrance row seat on the Builders Stage on October 27 at 1:00 p.m. PT. This session at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 brings collectively Nina Achadjian, companion, Index Ventures; Jerry Chen, common companion, Greylock; and Viviana Faga, common companion, Felicis, all of whom will share their 2026 funding priorities throughout AI, knowledge, cloud, robotics, and extra. This seasoned group of VCs offers you their tackle rising sectors and improvements capturing their consideration. Need to discover out the place good cash is headed subsequent? Attend.
Disrupt 2025 is occurring October 27-29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Register right here and reap the benefits of low pricing, with as much as $675 off tickets earlier than charges go up.
Pencils down — a deal with automating “forgotten” capabilities and industries
Nina Achadjian is a companion at Index Venturesinvesting throughout seed, enterprise, and development phases in AI, robotics, enterprise software program, and vertical SaaS. She is happy by firms that construct options to automate “forgotten” capabilities and industries, changing pen and paper and siloed instruments. She’s impressed by founders who develop empathy for his or her clients, have an insatiable curiosity, and function with a development mindset.
Investing in product-driven founders throughout AI, Cloud, and Knowledge
Normal companion Jerry Chen joined Greylock in 2013 and backs founders with a robust product and operational sense throughout a spread of sectors, together with AI, knowledge, enterprise functions, cloud infrastructure, and open supply applied sciences. His present investments at Greylock embrace Cato Networks, Chronosphere, Docker, Gladly, Instabase, Onehouse, Notable, and others in stealth. Earlier than Greylock, Chen spent a decade at VMware as a product chief and government. As an early rent, he watched the corporate develop from 250 to greater than 15,000 staff.
Architecting model classes and scaling go-to-market for cloud/SaaS
Viviana Faga is a common companion at Fortunatebringing over 20 years of expertise designing and constructing model classes for profitable cloud/SaaS and enterprise social firms. Her experience consists of scaling go-to-market SaaS groups, messaging and positioning, class creation, freemium product technique, and gross sales enablement. An skilled angel investor, Faga served as an working companion and adviser at Emergence Capital. She held management positions in advertising at Yammer, Salesforce, Platfora, and Zenefits.
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