Early-stage founders, hear up! You will have a entrance row seat on the Builders Stage on Oct 27 at 1:00 pm. This session at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 brings collectively Nina Achadjian, associate, Index Ventures; Jerry Chen, common associate, Greylock; and Viviana Faga, common associate, Felicis, all of whom will share their 2026 funding priorities throughout AI, knowledge, cloud, robotics, and extra. This seasoned group of VCs provides you their tackle rising sectors and improvements capturing their consideration. Need to discover out the place good cash is headed subsequent? Attend.
Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27-29, at Moscone West in San Francisco. Register right here, reap the benefits of low pricing with as much as $675 off tickets earlier than charges go up.
Pencils down. A give attention to automating “forgotten” capabilities and industries.
Nina Achadjian is a associate at Index Ventures, investing throughout seed, enterprise, and progress levels in AI, robotics, enterprise software program, and vertical SaaS. She is happy by corporations 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 prospects, have an insatiable curiosity, and function with a progress mindset.
Investing in product-driven founders throughout AI, Cloud, and Information
Normal Associate, Jerry Chen, joined Greylock in 2013, and backs founders with a powerful product and operational sense throughout a variety of sectors, together with AI, knowledge, enterprise functions, cloud infrastructure, and open-source applied sciences. His present investments at Greylock embody 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 govt. As an early rent, he watched the corporate develop from 250 to greater than 15,000 workers.
Architecting model classes and scaling go-to-market for cloud/SaaS
Viviana Faga is a Normal Associate at Felicis, bringing over 20 years of expertise designing and constructing model classes for profitable cloud/SaaS and enterprise social corporations. 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 associate and advisor at Emergence Capital. She held management positions in advertising and marketing at Yammer, Salesforce, Platfora, and Zenefits.
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