Member Directory
Rob Davenport is the Founder and CEO of Squid IQ Inc, a healthcare technology company based in San Francisco. The company offers a service that brings hospital device data and workflows together to manage equipment utilization, lifecycle and capital planning. The stated aim is to lower hospital costs and give nurses back time spent on device tasks.
Sharan Godya leads growth and monetization strategy at Adobe, a company that helps customers create, deliver and optimize content and applications through digital experiences. Earlier, Sharan held roles at Bain, Meta and Sony Pictures and earned an MBA at Kellogg. Sharan's work centers on media, content and AI.
Shivam Kumar is Co-Founder and CTO of Palo, a company building personal AI that helps social media creators study their audience and plan posts in their own voice. Shivam previously worked on cloud systems at Microsoft, data ingestion pipelines at Palantir, and retrieval workflows for developer productivity at Rubrik. His graduate research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign produced Fa
Ethan Teng is the founder of Ask Linc, a financial planning tool that lets people test money decisions against their own accounts. Earlier roles include growth and product work at Recurly, Braintree and PayPal, Postman, and meez. He also leads engineering at Navi Nurses, a healthcare staffing platform, and his current focus is keeping calculations separate from AI-generated explanations.
Gunnar Wagenknecht is a developer at Snowflake, working from San Francisco and Germany. He is also known as a public speaker and architect who builds open source tools, including knx-utils, a KNX toolkit for OpenHAB and Home Assistant. His GitHub work also spans a shared dotfiles setup for OS X and Linux and the cloudfree project.
Eric Inouye is a Co-Founder of BetWizzard, a prediction market analytics company based in San Francisco. The company's dashboard tracks real-time odds, arbitrage opportunities, and large trader activity across Kalshi, Polymarket, and IBKR prediction markets. Eric works with AI tools such as Claude, Gemini, Grok, Cursor, and Vercel.
Amey Banarse is a Senior Manager of Field Engineering at Databricks, a company that offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Its platform covers data pipelines, data warehousing, governance and AI development, with a data-centric approach to building AI. Amey has been at Databricks since July 2025 and is based in San Francisco.
Vik is also a co-founder of the firm. The fund looks for teams that control three layers of the AI stack, from the user-facing app to the model and the orchestration layer beneath it.
Kate Aeris is the Founder and CEO of Aeris PR, an international boutique agency that handles public relations for tech startups and VC funds in the US, Europe, MENA and CIS. Based in San Francisco, Aeris has led the firm since 2019, working across AI, FinTech, HealthTech and EdTech. Alongside the agency, Kate is developing Soully AI, aimed at self-discovery, personal growth and clearer decisions.
