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      <image:caption>Scott Painter: Founder of TrueCar (NASDAQ: TRUE), Fair.com ($1BN+ funding), Cars Direct (acquired for $1.1BN).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Nuno Arantes-Oliveira: Managing Partner at Arantes Saude Investments</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Stanislav Sirakov: Partner at LAUNCHub Ventures</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Peter Lazou: Venture Builder &amp; Angel Investor at ValaCo Ventures, Director of Milan FI</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sasha Bezuhanova: Founder and Chairperson at MOVE.BG, Angel Investor</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rossi Mitova: Founder &amp; CEO of Farmhopping, Forbes "30 Under 30" Europe</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Joel Hughes: Director of Europe, Indiegogo</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ben Larson: General Partner of Backplane Capital, Co-Founder &amp; Managing Partner, Gateway Incubator</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Andrew Crawford: Global Finance Manager, Founder Institute</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A. Dara Dotz: Co-Founder &amp; Principal Designer at Field Ready, 3D Printing Pioneer</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Eeppi Nieminen: Founder of Coachilla, Founder Institute Alumni</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Milen Ivanov: Founder of Angels Club, Founder Institute Director, Angel Investor</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Raphael Crouan: Founder &amp; CEO of the Startupbootcamp IoT Program</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Stefano L. Tresca: Managing Partner of iSeed, StartupHome, Founding Member of Level39</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Maz Cohen: Founder of Wisher.com, Co-Founder of Metamorph.io</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kamal Hassan: Partner at Loyal Venture Capital, Global Director at Founder Institute</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Enis Hulli: Venture Partner at 500 Startups</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mark Rogers: CEO of Futurist Labs, Founder Institute Mentor</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Adeo Ressi: Co-Founder &amp; CEO of the Founder Institute, 9X entrepreneur</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jonathan Greechan: Co-Founder of the Founder Institute, Head of Marketing</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Daan Weddepohl: Founder &amp; CEO of Peerby, Alumni of Rockstart, Techstars, FI</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>NetSuite provides an integrated system that includes financials / Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), inventory management, HR, professional services automation and omnichannel commerce, used by more than 36,000 customers in 217 countries and dependent territories.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Holland &amp; Knight LLP is a global law firm that provides representation in litigation, business, real estate, healthcare and governmental law.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>GORA LLC is a corporate, securities, intellectual property, and litigation law firm based in Stamford, Connecticut.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Grasshopper Bank is a client-first digital bank built to serve the business and innovation economy.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Firstbase helps startups worldwide expand into the United States and confidently navigate ongoing compliance. Since YC in '21, we've helped 35,000 founders from over 175 countries to launch and grow their companies in the US.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lighter Capital pioneered revenue-based financing 14 years ago. Leah brings deep experience as a serial co-founder and then VC to supporting startups, but now she can provide funding free of equity, restrictions or founder guarantees. Flexible funding so you maintain all of your options.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jukka Alanen is the Managing Partner of Rebellion Ventures where he focuses on helping entrepreneurs build revolutionary AI and Automation companies. Rebellion Ventures is a Silicon Valley based seed/pre-seed investment firm that helps entrepreneurs build AI and Automation startups that revolutionize operations and business models. Previously, Jukka was a senior operating executive and built three VC-backed companies to $3.5B in IPO and M&amp;A exits. Most recently, he was SVP of Strategy, Business &amp; Corporate Development at PagerDuty, where he helped take the company public ($2.8B IPO) and led the strategy to revolutionize digital operations with AI and Automation.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Evan Goldberg is a Co-Founder of NetSuite, which was acquired by Oracle in 2016 for approximately $9.3BN. Evan now leads the Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit. He and his team are responsible for the product strategy, development, and delivery of NetSuite’s unified business management suite, encompassing ERP/Financials, CRM, ecommerce, and more. In 1998, Evan co-founded NetSuite and it was the first cloud computing company – ushering in the new era of cloud computing. Prior to Oracle’s acquisition of NetSuite, Evan was CTO and Chairman of the NetSuite board. Before founding NetSuite, he spent eight years at Oracle Corporation, where he served as a vice president. He was involved in a variety of projects, all focused on making powerful database technology more accessible to users. Evan holds a B.A. Summa Cum Laude in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Daniel Sylvester is an attorney in Holland &amp; Knight’s Chicago office and a member of the firm’s Financial Services Team. Mr. Sylvester’s practice focuses on the representation of borrowers and lenders in senior secured credit facilities, second-lien credit facilities, real estate finance and syndicated credit facilities. Mr. Sylvester is a member of Holland &amp; Knight’s Diversity Council and serves as a co-chair of the firm’s DiverseAbility Affinity Group. Mr. Sylvester served as chair/co-chair of the firm’s Veterans Group for 10 years. Mr. Sylvester began his career by serving more than 10 years as an army officer. Mr. Sylvester served on the U.S. humanitarian operations into Bosnia and the Dayton Peace Accord’s multinational NATO logistics command for the former Yugoslavia.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Martin Tobias is the founder of Incisive Ventures, a Pre-Seed Fund based in Seattle. Incisive Ventures invests in technology companies that reduce friction at scale, leveraging the vast network Martin built as an angel investor in over 60 companies in the sector. Among these, 4 stand out as unicorns that have collectively secured $2.5B+ in follow-on financing. Martin's entrepreneurial journey is extensive. He has invested in over 250 companies as an angel, partnered with a major VC firm, and has become a limited partner in over a dozen VC funds. Additionally, he founded the leading Angel network, Element8. With experience from Microsoft, Accenture, and as a three-time venture-backed CEO, Martin has successfully secured over $500M in funding for his companies, marking two of them with successful IPOs.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Barbara Belvisi is the Founder and CEO at Interstellar Lab, which develops food production and habitation modules for sustainable living on Earth and space. She is also a Co-founder of Hardware Club, the first community based investment firm dedicated to hardware startups. Barbara started her career in finance at 22, investing in tech companies worldwide, and launched several global initiatives to foster scientific innovation and entrepreneurship. Youngest woman founder of a venture capital fund at 26, she is in the top 1O Women in Tech in France and Forbes Top 1OO in Europe in 2O18. Self-taught in engineering and architecture, Barbara is passionate about space, biology, and AI.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Adeo Ressi is CEO of Decile Group, which runs the leading venture capital accelerator VC Lab and operates the Decile Hub platform. Adeo is also Executive Chairman at the Founder Institute. Adeo has launched 14 VC funds and founded 11 startups, having nearly $2 billion in exits before the age of 30. He previously served on the Board of the X Prize foundation to pursue his interests in space exploration, and studied architecture and spent time living on a commune to explore his interests in designing better ways to live. Adeo is passionate about inspiring people to achieve their potential.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ali Jamal is a founding partner at First Check Ventures. With over 10 years of experience, he has held various Product and Growth roles at companies like Zynga, RockYou, Agoda, Rappi, and most recently at PayClip, one of LatAm's fastest-growing FinTech companies. He is also an accomplished angel investor, having completed more than 200 deals.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Nichol Bradford is a Co-Founder and Partner at Nirmeia Collective, a seed-stage venture fund; and Co-Founder of TransformativeTech.org, a global ecosystem dedicated to educating, gathering, and activating wellbeing of tech founders, investors, and innovators – with 9000 members in 72 countries. Nichol is a pioneer, innovator, investor, and thought leader at the intersection of technology and human transformation. She shapes global thinking as a speaker, futurist, strategist, and author.  She is also a senior interactive entertainment executive. Nichol has been responsible for strategy, operations, marketing, and production roles at major brands that include: Epic Games, Activision Blizzard, Disney, and Vivendi.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jed Katz is a Co-Founder &amp; Managing Director at Javelin Venture Partners, where he sits on the boards of Thumbtack, SmartAsset, HighArc, Landed, Fello, Arrive and Linqia, and is a board observer for MasterClass, Carbon Health and Homeward. One of the true pioneers of online commerce, Jed has spent his career developing, advising, and investing in early-stage technology ventures, including founding four companies. He was also appointed by President Biden to be on the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Prior to forming Javelin Venture Partners, Jed was a Managing Director of DFJ Gotham Ventures in New York. Prior to DFJ Gotham, Jed was the COO of Yamcon, the developer of the highly acclaimed “SkyScout”, one of the best-selling astronomy products of all time.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>George Ploss is the Head of Venture Capital Practice and Head of Oracle NetSuite Startup Accelerator, where he takes the resources of Oracle-NetSuite and uses them to accelerate the success of startups in incubators. He was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign where he received his MBA in finance and strategic leadership along with his bachelor's in African American studies and Political Science. While in undergrad, George enlisted in the Marine Corps, Reserves where he served a total of nine years.  George has been a Senior Program Manager at Oracle in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Veterans and has helped establish relationships and build more diverse recruiting pipelines. He also ran the Oracle-NetSuite Solution Consulting Academy, where he hired, enabled, and trained multiple, diverse teams of Solution Consultants to be a trusted advisor to companies.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Genevieve LeMarchal is the Managing Partner of Suncoast Ventures. She spearheaded Expert Dojo’s healthcare program, overseeing three full cohorts of health tech and medtech startups. This led her to become one of Southern California's most active early-stage VC investors (as recognized by Crunchbase, 2022) and the winner of the 2022 Biocom Lifescience Catalyst Award. Genevieve is passionate about innovating financial models and discovering optimized ways to structure and finance companies and deals. In her illustrious career, she has served as a Partner at a science-focused advisory and fund formation, held the position of General Partner at the Oregon-based FoundersPad VC Fund II, and co-founded the XXcelerate Fund. She also hosts the AdVentureous Podcast.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cliff DeGroot is a Partner at Holland &amp; Knight. He focuses his practice on counseling startups on governance and general corporate matters from formation to financing to eventual sale. He has extensive experience forming and structuring corporations, limited liability companies and limited partnerships, and frequently advises clients on mergers, acquisitions and private placements of convertible notes, preferred stock, limited liability company interests and limited partnerships to angel investors, venture capital groups and private equity funds. His experience prior to entering the practice of law includes working as a certified public accountant for an international accounting firm and serving as CFO of a public company.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jason Calacanis is an entrepreneur, author, and angel investor in over 250 startups, including 7 "unicorns". He also hosts the popular podcasts 'This Week in Startups' and 'All-In'. Named “arguably the world’s greatest angel investor” by The Twenty Minute VC, Jason was among the early investors in companies such as Uber, Robinhood, Wealthfront, Thumbtack, and Trello. He is the author of "Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups" (Harper Collins, 2017) and serves as Founder &amp; CEO of LAUNCH (which encompasses the LAUNCH Festival and the LAUNCH Incubator). Additionally, he is the Founder &amp; CEO of Inside.com, among other ventures.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kamal Hassan is a Managing Partner at Loyal VC, a global venture fund designed to offer above-average returns while preserving capital, through diversification and a unique gate-stage investing process that reduces bias. Loyal is the fund Kamal wished he had available during his 20-year career as an entrepreneurial CEO, and 15 years as an angel investor. It draws upon his professional and philanthropic experiences and networks formed as a Global Director with the Founder Institute accelerator, former INSEAD Alumni Association President, a consultant at Bain &amp; Co, and as an engineer at IMAX.   He has an INSEAD MBA and a degree in engineering physics from Queen's University. He has traveled to over 100 countries and speaks 5 languages.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Peter Pham is the Co-Founder of startup studio/incubator Science, which was behind Dollar Shave Club ($1B exit to Unilever), Liquid Death, and more. Peter leads the effort to raise money for Science incubated companies which has totaled $400M. By focusing on business development throughout his career and building a robust and strong network, Peter has sharpened his skills in identifying the best talent behind strong brand identity, as seen with his hands-on work with PlayVS, Liquid Death, and Mammoth Media.  Previously as an operator, he has helped companies like Photobucket as employee No. 5, spearheading growth and corporate development, thereby leading the company to its $300M acquisition of MySpace, as well as lending his insights as co-founder and CEO of BillShrink, which was acquired by MasterCard in 2012.  He is also an angel advisor to companies like Nextdoor, Ring, and Medium.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Eren Bali co-founded Udemy (Silicon Valley FI Alum) in January 2010 and has served as a member of Udemy’s board of directors since then. Mr. Bali also served as Udemy’s Chief Executive Officer from January 2010 to April 2014. Mr. Bali currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Carbon Health, a technology-enabled healthcare provider, which he co-founded in October 2015. Carbon Health operates more than 125 brick-and-mortar clinics in 13 U.S. states along with virtual care services, and provides care for more than a million patients. Mr. Bali serves on the boards of directors of various private companies. Mr. Bali received a B.S. in computer engineering and mathematics from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jonathan Greechan is Co-Founder and CEO of the Founder Institute, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator. Since 2009, Jonathan has grown and scaled the organization to chapters in over 200 cities and 95 countries, which have produced over 6500 portfolio companies with nearly $2 billion in venture funding. He also serves as an Advisor to Oxford Entrepreneurs (Oxford University), Horasis, and the USC Incubator (University of Southern California).  Previously, Jonathan was a Partner of TheFunded.com; Executive Producer of the Founder Showcase; and Product Manager at RealNetworks (RNWK), a company he joined after its acquisition of Game Trust (a startup that raised $18M+ in venture capital, where he built and led all marketing and content).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Andrew Tauhert is the Chief Impact Officer at XPRIZE, responsible for driving and enabling the foundation’s impact across all of our programs, including program fundraising, strategic partnerships and activating the ecosystem of organizations and individuals who guide and support our work. Lastly, Andrew oversees the “visioneering” process at XPRIZE which convenes experts and thought leaders in their respective domains to chart the future direction of the foundation and focus of its forthcoming prizes. Andrew came to XPRIZE with over 25 years of experience driving successful results in large enterprises and startups operating throughout high tech, telecom/networking, data and AI. Andrew is the former COO of Prodea Systems, a leader in Internet of Things Solutions, as well as Founder and Managing Director of VaticX Inc., a global accelerator with best practices to optimize value creation for growth stage AI, DLT, IoT, and Edge Computing companies.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mike Sherbakov serves as General Partner at The Veteran Fund, a pre-seed venture capital fund in Silicon Valley, and Managing Director of the FI San Diego program. As the CEO of Greatness Ventures, he led the organization to thousands of investor members and hundreds of companies in their portfolio. Their venture philanthropy arm has built homes in underdeveloped communities since 2014 and continues to lead impact trips open for the community to join. Mike previously founded three startups, helped grow two companies from $0 to over $20M, and consulted with leading brands including Fitbit, lululemon athletica, Equinox, and Qualcomm.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Esosa Ighodaro co-founded Black Women Talk Tech, the largest collective of Black women tech founders, supporting over 150,000 global entrepreneurs. She drives strategy, partnerships, and marketing for the organization, which includes the Roadmap to Billions Conference and AcceleratorCON. She is also an Angel &amp; LP Investor, and a Scout for Zeal Capital Partners. With 15+ years in entrepreneurship and corporate roles, Esosa has been named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Most Powerful Women and featured in outlets like Forbes, ELLE, and NBC.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Linda Avey is a Founding Managing Partner of Humain Ventures, investing in category-defining tech bio companies; and was at the forefront of the digital health movement as a Founder of 23andMe, and as the first independent board director of Rock Health. Her interests span precision health, AI-driven drug development, and the emergence of biology as a programmable operating system for health and longevity. Linda sits on the board of fellows of Stanford Medical School and is a current or former advisor to health and science companies including Colossal Biosciences (driving de-extinction), Verily (Alphabet’s life science subsidiary), and Ôura (a leading health tracking wearable). She is also a director at the Human Immunome Project and an advisor to London-based Giant Ventures and the Autism Impact Fund.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kamal Hassan is a Managing Partner at Loyal VC, a global venture fund designed to offer above-average returns while preserving capital, through diversification and a unique gate-stage investing process that reduces bias. Loyal is the fund Kamal wished he had available during his 20-year career as an entrepreneurial CEO, and 15 years as an angel investor. It draws upon his professional and philanthropic experiences and networks formed as a Global Director with the Founder Institute accelerator, former INSEAD Alumni Association President, a consultant at Bain &amp; Co, and as an engineer at IMAX.   He has an INSEAD MBA and a degree in engineering physics from Queen's University. He has traveled to over 100 countries and speaks 5 languages.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rob Kaminski (Co-founder of Fletch) has helped over 400 B2B startups develop their positioning strategies and translate those strategies into clear homepage messaging.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sunil is the Managing Partner at Feedback and a founding partner of SuperAdvisors. Over the past decade, he has invested in tech startups, amassing a portfolio of 150+ active investments through various funds, including Techstars. As the Managing Partner of Techstars Toronto, he made 100 direct investments across 16 countries and achieved 8 successful exits. Previously, Sunil was a Managing Partner at Extreme Venture Partners, where he co-founded Extreme Startups—an early equity-based pre-seed accelerator in Canada. Additionally, Sunil supports over 450 portfolio companies launched through the Founder Institute's pre-accelerator program, representing the largest active startup portfolio in Canada. Sunil also co-hosts the Collision Conference, an annual event attracting over 40,000 attendees to Toronto and part of the global WebSummit series held in cities like Doha, Lisbon, Hong Kong, and Rio de Janeiro.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lyn Graft is the Founder of Storytelling for Entrepreneurs, an online platform for founders to help create, tell, and share their story; an author of Start with Story: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Using Story to Grow Your Business. Over the last fifteen years, Lyn has filmed and captured the stories of more than five hundred of the world’s top entrepreneurs, including the founders of LinkedIn, Starbucks, Dell, and Whole Foods. He has produced more than eight hundred videos focused on entrepreneurs, startups, and business content, and dedicated twenty thousand hours to studying and practicing entrepreneurial storytelling. Lyn is an entrepreneur, producer, dog lover, and co-creator of CNBC’s American Made.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Allison Ellsworth is the Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer of Poppi: the modern soda brand revolutionizing soda for the next generation. She created poppi after discovering the benefits of apple cider vinegar and experimenting in her kitchen to make it taste great. From the farmers market to a Shark Tank deal, poppi quickly became one of the fastest-growing non-alcoholic beverages in the U.S. and is the #1 selling soda on Amazon. Ellsworth leads the Austin-based beverage company’s overall brand strategy, creative, and innovation. She pioneered the brand’s cultural cache and digital-first approach, attracting a loyal community of over 1M followers, over 2B+ page views on TikTok and celebrity brand fans including Kim Kardashian, Post Malone, Alix Early, Hailey Bieber, Billie Eilish and more. Allison has been recognized in the 2024 Inc. Female Founders 250 and Founder of the Year from Modern Retail. She lives in Austin, TX with her husband and three boys.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jonathan Greechan is Co-Founder and CEO of the Founder Institute, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator. Since 2009, Jonathan has grown and scaled the organization to chapters in over 200 cities and 95 countries, which have produced over 7000 portfolio companies with nearly $2 billion in venture funding. Previously, Jonathan was a Partner of TheFunded.com; Executive Producer of the Founder Showcase; and Product Manager at RealNetworks (RNWK), a company he joined after its acquisition of Game Trust (a startup that raised $18M+ in venture capital, where he built and led all marketing and content).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jason Calacanis is an entrepreneur, author, and angel investor in over 250 startups, including 7 "unicorns". He also hosts the popular podcasts 'This Week in Startups' and 'All-In'. Named “arguably the world’s greatest angel investor” by The Twenty Minute VC, Jason was among the early investors in companies such as Uber, Robinhood, Wealthfront, Thumbtack, and Trello. He is the author of "Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups" (Harper Collins, 2017) and serves as Founder &amp; CEO of LAUNCH (which encompasses the LAUNCH Festival and the LAUNCH Incubator). Additionally, he is the Founder &amp; CEO of Inside.com, among other ventures.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cheryl Sew Hoy is the CEO and Founder of Tiny Health, the leading microbiome health platform helping individuals and families optimize their gut and vaginal microbiome. Launched in 2022, Tiny Health pioneered the first at-home gut microbiome test for moms and babies, using shotgun metagenomic sequencing. Since then, it has expanded to serve adults and older children, offering advanced testing for chronic conditions, performance, longevity, and overall health. A repeat founder and entrepreneur, Cheryl was previously Director at Flexiroam, CMO at Hack Reactor, and Founder &amp; CEO of Reclip.It, acquired by Walmart Labs in 2013. She later served as CEO of MaGIC, a $30M government-backed initiative to grow Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem. With expertise in brand building, fundraising, and scaling startups, Cheryl has raised $34M across her ventures and advises numerous startups. She holds a master’s in Engineering Management &amp; Data Mining and a bachelor’s in Operations Research &amp; Industrial Engineering from Cornell University, both on full scholarships. Tiny Health’s team includes leading scientists, physicians, and microbiologists from Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Harvard Medical, and UCSF.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>As a Principal of Frontera Technology Ventures (“FTV”), Harvin Moore has invested in and advised growth-stage technology companies. He has been involved in the Houston and Texas technology innovation movement since the 1990s as a startup entrepreneur, mentor, advisor, investor, and limited partner of one of Houston's leading startup development organizations and co-working hubs. From 2019 to 2021, Harvin served as President and CEO of Houston Exponential ("HX"), an independent non-profit which works to accelerate the growth of Houston's rapidly expanding technology innovation ecosystem. Harvin currently serves on several boards including Space Workforce Incubator for Texas (SWIFT), KIPP Houston, TXRX Labs, NASA’s Space Center Houston, and the Powell Foundation.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Pat LaPointe is the Chairman at Entrelliance, Managing Director at Frontier Angels, and an entrepreneur who built and sold three companies in the marketing and data analytics field. These days he brings a very entrepreneur-friendly approach to angel and venture investing, and served on the Board of the Angel Capital Association. With a portfolio of over 60 investments and afflicted by endless curiosity, Pat enjoys learning about new business models and innovative technologies and loves helping entrepreneurs find their path to growth and success.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Steve Munisteri is a Senior Advisor to the Governor of the State of Texas, Greg Abbott. In 2017, Munisteri joined the Trump Administration as White House Deputy Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy Director of the Office of Public Liaison. Munisteri served as Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas from 2010 to 2015. Prior to his chairmanship, Munisteri founded his own law firm in 1982 and an oil and gas investment company in 1989. From Houston, Texas, Munisteri received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Texas.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gabe Dominocielo is the President and Co-founder of Umbra, a technology company specializing in advanced space systems to both commercial and government clients. Before establishing Umbra in 2015, Dominocielo co-founded and served as Chief Operating Officer of a legal services firm whose panel attorneys achieved over $1 billion in verdicts and settlements. Under his leadership, Umbra has distinguished itself by offering the highest-resolution commercial satellite images available, utilizing proprietary technology to capture clear imagery through clouds and at night. Dominocielo is recognized for his pragmatic approach to the space industry, emphasizing sound unit economics and transparent business practices. He advocates for strong partnerships free of channel conflicts and has implemented transparent, self-service scheduling and tasking, permissive licensing, and clear public universal pricing at Umbra.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rajeev Behera is the Founder &amp; CEO of Every.io, an All-in-One back office platform for technology companies that simplifies entity formation, banking, bookkeeping, corporate cards, reimbursements, taxes, payroll, compliance, R&amp;D tax credits, benefits, and much more. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of Reflektive, where he raised $100 million from a16z and Lightspeed. He built the organization to 250 employees. Reflektive was ranked the 13th fastest growing company in North America by Deloitte in terms of revenue growth.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cara Abbott is the Founder &amp; CEO at Betterleave, the leading experience platform built to support individuals and families as they navigate serious illness, end-of-life &amp; loss. Cara is also a Partner at Everywhere Ventures, a global pre-seed fund backed by 500 founders and operators; an Advisor for the Founder Institute; and a member of the Forbes HR Council. Prior to Betterleave, she co-founded Code Pilot, one of the fastest growing developer training &amp; recruitment platforms for hiring teams. Code Pilot was acquired by AngelList in 2020. Cara loves to partner with founders and leaders to support complex organizational and high-growth people initiatives for successful outcomes -- including WorldFirst, Acquisition and RetailMeNot, IPO.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Adeo Ressi is CEO of Decile Group, which runs the leading venture capital accelerator VC Lab and operates the Decile Hub platform. Adeo is also Executive Chairman at the Founder Institute. Adeo has launched 14 VC funds and founded 11 startups, having nearly $2 billion in exits before the age of 30. He previously served on the Board of the X Prize foundation to pursue his interests in space exploration, and studied architecture and spent time living on a commune to explore his interests in designing better ways to live. Adeo is passionate about inspiring people to achieve their potential.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Julia Cheek is the Founder and CEO of Everly Health, a digital health company providing virtual-first disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. In just 10 years, Everly Health has served over 50 million people and delivered more than 200 million personalized health insights, giving people crucial information about their health. Julia is a visionary leader, serving on the Board of Directors for Headspace Health and The University of Texas at Austin President's Innovation Board. She demonstrates her passion for entrepreneurship by supporting underrepresented founders, investing in over a dozen healthcare startups. Julia was named a 2024 Digital Health Icon by Rock Health, 2023 Entrepreneur of the Year by Springboard Enterprises, and Fortune Magazine's 2022 15 Most Powerful Women in Startups.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Martin Tobias is the founder of Incisive Ventures, a Pre-Seed Fund based in Seattle. Incisive Ventures invests in technology companies that reduce friction at scale, leveraging the vast network Martin built as an angel investor in over 60 companies in the sector. Among these, 4 stand out as unicorns that have collectively secured $2.5B+ in follow-on financing. Martin's entrepreneurial journey is extensive. He has invested in over 250 companies as an angel, partnered with a major VC firm, and has become a limited partner in over a dozen VC funds. Additionally, he founded the leading Angel network, Element8. With experience from Microsoft, Accenture, and as a three-time venture-backed CEO, Martin has successfully secured over $500M in funding for his companies, marking two of them with successful IPOs.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mercedes Bankston is the Director of the FI Silicon Valley program and an Advisor to Loyal VC. She specializes in jump-starting new business units, re-launching failed units, and rolling out new products, primarily in innovative technical companies. She is also an expert in global investments in high-potential tech startups.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>George Ploss is the Head of Venture Capital Practice and Head of Oracle NetSuite Startup Accelerator, where he takes the resources of Oracle-NetSuite and uses them to accelerate the success of startups in incubators. He was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign where he received his MBA in finance and strategic leadership along with his bachelor's in African American studies and Political Science. While in undergrad, George enlisted in the Marine Corps, Reserves where he served a total of nine years.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Paul Kwiatkowski is co-founder at GroupRaise, a leading platform for community groups, charities, and other non-profits to fundraise by partnering with a variety of merchants and brands, from restaurants to movie theaters and more. Prior to GroupRaise, he received a degree in Computer Science from Rice University and assisted with product development at several startups as they were going from zero to one. Paul has a deep empathy for the challenges faced by entrepreneurs in their first stages of growth, and was co-organizer of the Houston Lean Startup Circle for three years. Over the last decade, he has mentored and advised startups through his involvement in multiple accelerators, including the Founder Institute in Houston.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lee Shapiro is a Partner at 7wire Ventures, an investment firm he co-founded over a decade ago. He also served as Chief Financial Officer of Livongo Health [NASDAQ:LVGO] until November 2020. Previously he was President of Allscripts [NASDAQ:MDRX] from 2001 until the end of 2012. His leadership was integral in the execution of over $4B in mergers, acquisitions, and financings. During his tenure as CFO, Livongo also had a successful secondary offering, raised $550M in convertible debt and entered into an agreement to merge at the highest valuation, $18.5B, of any healthcare technology company, based on revenue multiples. The price of $159 per share was over six times the price of Livongo’s shares at the time of its IPO, just 12 months earlier. Lee serves on the National Board of Directors of the American Heart Association as Chair Elect, assuming his new role in July 2025.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Adeo Ressi is CEO of Decile Group, which runs the leading venture capital accelerator VC Lab and operates the Decile Hub platform. Adeo is also Executive Chairman at the Founder Institute. Adeo has launched 14 VC funds and founded 11 startups, having nearly $2 billion in exits before the age of 30. He previously served on the Board of the X Prize foundation to pursue his interests in space exploration, and studied architecture and spent time living on a commune to explore his interests in designing better ways to live. Adeo is passionate about inspiring people to achieve their potential.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy - final for FI Texas) - Mercedes Bankston</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mercedes Bankston is the Director of the FI Silicon Valley program and an Advisor to Loyal VC. She specializes in jump-starting new business units, re-launching failed units, and rolling out new products, primarily in innovative technical companies. She is also an expert in global investments in high-potential tech startups.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Martin Tobias is the founder of Incisive Ventures, a Pre-Seed Fund based in Seattle. Incisive Ventures invests in technology companies that reduce friction at scale, leveraging the vast network Martin built as an angel investor in over 60 companies in the sector. Among these, 4 stand out as unicorns that have collectively secured $2.5B+ in follow-on financing. Martin's entrepreneurial journey is extensive. He has invested in over 250 companies as an angel, partnered with a major VC firm, and has become a limited partner in over a dozen VC funds. Additionally, he founded the leading Angel network, Element8. With experience from Microsoft, Accenture, and as a three-time venture-backed CEO, Martin has successfully secured over $500M in funding for his companies, marking two of them with successful IPOs.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy - final for FI Texas) - Paul Kwiatkowski</image:title>
      <image:caption>Paul Kwiatkowski is co-founder at GroupRaise, a leading platform for community groups, charities, and other non-profits to fundraise by partnering with a variety of merchants and brands, from restaurants to movie theaters and more. Prior to GroupRaise, he received a degree in Computer Science from Rice University and assisted with product development at several startups as they were going from zero to one. Paul has a deep empathy for the challenges faced by entrepreneurs in their first stages of growth, and was co-organizer of the Houston Lean Startup Circle for three years. Over the last decade, he has mentored and advised startups through his involvement in multiple accelerators, including the Founder Institute in Houston.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gabe Dominocielo is the President and Co-founder of Umbra, a technology company specializing in advanced space systems to both commercial and government clients. Before establishing Umbra in 2015, Dominocielo co-founded and served as Chief Operating Officer of a legal services firm whose panel attorneys achieved over $1 billion in verdicts and settlements. Under his leadership, Umbra has distinguished itself by offering the highest-resolution commercial satellite images available, utilizing proprietary technology to capture clear imagery through clouds and at night. Dominocielo is recognized for his pragmatic approach to the space industry, emphasizing sound unit economics and transparent business practices. He advocates for strong partnerships free of channel conflicts and has implemented transparent, self-service scheduling and tasking, permissive licensing, and clear public universal pricing at Umbra.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy - final for FI Texas) - Esosa Ighodaro</image:title>
      <image:caption>Esosa Ighodaro co-founded Black Women Talk Tech, the largest collective of Black women tech founders, supporting over 150,000 global entrepreneurs. She drives strategy, partnerships, and marketing for the organization, which includes the Roadmap to Billions Conference and AcceleratorCON. She is also an Angel &amp; LP Investor, and a Scout for Zeal Capital Partners. With 15+ years in entrepreneurship and corporate roles, Esosa has been named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Most Powerful Women and featured in outlets like Forbes, ELLE, and NBC.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy - final for FI Texas) - Steve Munisteri</image:title>
      <image:caption>Steve Munisteri is a Senior Advisor to the Governor of the State of Texas, Greg Abbott. In 2017, Munisteri joined the Trump Administration as White House Deputy Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy Director of the Office of Public Liaison. Munisteri served as Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas from 2010 to 2015. Prior to his chairmanship, Munisteri founded his own law firm in 1982 and an oil and gas investment company in 1989. From Houston, Texas, Munisteri received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Texas.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy - final for FI Texas) - Sunil Sharma</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sunil is the Managing Partner at Feedback and a founding partner of SuperAdvisors. Over the past decade, he has invested in tech startups, amassing a portfolio of 150+ active investments through various funds, including Techstars. As the Managing Partner of Techstars Toronto, he made 100 direct investments across 16 countries and achieved 8 successful exits. Previously, Sunil was a Managing Partner at Extreme Venture Partners, where he co-founded Extreme Startups—an early equity-based pre-seed accelerator in Canada. Additionally, Sunil supports over 450 portfolio companies launched through the Founder Institute's pre-accelerator program, representing the largest active startup portfolio in Canada. Sunil also co-hosts the Collision Conference, an annual event attracting over 40,000 attendees to Toronto and part of the global WebSummit series held in cities like Doha, Lisbon, Hong Kong, and Rio de Janeiro.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy - final for FI Texas) - Pat LaPointe</image:title>
      <image:caption>Pat LaPointe is the Chairman at Entrelliance, Managing Director at Frontier Angels, and an entrepreneur who built and sold three companies in the marketing and data analytics field. These days he brings a very entrepreneur-friendly approach to angel and venture investing, and served on the Board of the Angel Capital Association. With a portfolio of over 60 investments and afflicted by endless curiosity, Pat enjoys learning about new business models and innovative technologies and loves helping entrepreneurs find their path to growth and success.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy - final for FI Texas) - Jason Calacanis</image:title>
      <image:caption>Jason Calacanis is an entrepreneur, author, and angel investor in over 250 startups, including 7 "unicorns". He also hosts the popular podcasts 'This Week in Startups' and 'All-In'. Named “arguably the world’s greatest angel investor” by The Twenty Minute VC, Jason was among the early investors in companies such as Uber, Robinhood, Wealthfront, Thumbtack, and Trello. He is the author of "Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups" (Harper Collins, 2017) and serves as Founder &amp; CEO of LAUNCH (which encompasses the LAUNCH Festival and the LAUNCH Incubator). Additionally, he is the Founder &amp; CEO of Inside.com, among other ventures.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy - final for FI Texas) - Rob Kaminski</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rob Kaminski (Co-founder of Fletch) has helped over 400 B2B startups develop their positioning strategies and translate those strategies into clear homepage messaging.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy - final for FI Texas) - Lyn Graft</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lyn Graft is the Founder of Storytelling for Entrepreneurs, an online platform for founders to help create, tell, and share their story; an author of Start with Story: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Using Story to Grow Your Business. Over the last fifteen years, Lyn has filmed and captured the stories of more than five hundred of the world’s top entrepreneurs, including the founders of LinkedIn, Starbucks, Dell, and Whole Foods. He has produced more than eight hundred videos focused on entrepreneurs, startups, and business content, and dedicated twenty thousand hours to studying and practicing entrepreneurial storytelling. Lyn is an entrepreneur, producer, dog lover, and co-creator of CNBC’s American Made.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy - final for FI Texas) - Harvin Moore</image:title>
      <image:caption>As a Principal of Frontera Technology Ventures (“FTV”), Harvin Moore has invested in and advised growth-stage technology companies. He has been involved in the Houston and Texas technology innovation movement since the 1990s as a startup entrepreneur, mentor, advisor, investor, and limited partner of one of Houston's leading startup development organizations and co-working hubs. From 2019 to 2021, Harvin served as President and CEO of Houston Exponential ("HX"), an independent non-profit which works to accelerate the growth of Houston's rapidly expanding technology innovation ecosystem. Harvin currently serves on several boards including Space Workforce Incubator for Texas (SWIFT), KIPP Houston, TXRX Labs, NASA’s Space Center Houston, and the Powell Foundation.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy - final for FI Texas) - Andrew Tauhert</image:title>
      <image:caption>Andrew Tauhert is the Chief Impact Officer at XPRIZE, responsible for driving and enabling the foundation’s impact across all of our programs, including program fundraising, strategic partnerships and activating the ecosystem of organizations and individuals who guide and support our work. Lastly, Andrew oversees the “visioneering” process at XPRIZE which convenes experts and thought leaders in their respective domains to chart the future direction of the foundation and focus of its forthcoming prizes. Andrew came to XPRIZE with over 25 years of experience driving successful results in large enterprises and startups operating throughout high tech, telecom/networking, data and AI. Andrew is the former COO of Prodea Systems, a leader in Internet of Things Solutions, as well as Founder and Managing Director of VaticX Inc., a global accelerator with best practices to optimize value creation for growth stage AI, DLT, IoT, and Edge Computing companies.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy - final for FI Texas) - Allison Ellsworth</image:title>
      <image:caption>Allison Ellsworth is the Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer of Poppi: the modern soda brand revolutionizing soda for the next generation. She created poppi after discovering the benefits of apple cider vinegar and experimenting in her kitchen to make it taste great. From the farmers market to a Shark Tank deal, poppi quickly became one of the fastest-growing non-alcoholic beverages in the U.S. and is the #1 selling soda on Amazon. Ellsworth leads the Austin-based beverage company’s overall brand strategy, creative, and innovation. She pioneered the brand’s cultural cache and digital-first approach, attracting a loyal community of over 1M followers, over 2B+ page views on TikTok and celebrity brand fans including Kim Kardashian, Post Malone, Alix Early, Hailey Bieber, Billie Eilish and more. Allison has been recognized in the 2024 Inc. Female Founders 250 and Founder of the Year from Modern Retail. She lives in Austin, TX with her husband and three boys.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy - final for FI Texas) - Cheryl Sew Hoy</image:title>
      <image:caption>Cheryl Sew Hoy is the CEO and Founder of Tiny Health, the leading microbiome health platform helping individuals and families optimize their gut and vaginal microbiome. Launched in 2022, Tiny Health pioneered the first at-home gut microbiome test for moms and babies, using shotgun metagenomic sequencing. Since then, it has expanded to serve adults and older children, offering advanced testing for chronic conditions, performance, longevity, and overall health. A repeat founder and entrepreneur, Cheryl was previously Director at Flexiroam, CMO at Hack Reactor, and Founder &amp; CEO of Reclip.It, acquired by Walmart Labs in 2013. She later served as CEO of MaGIC, a $30M government-backed initiative to grow Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem. With expertise in brand building, fundraising, and scaling startups, Cheryl has raised $34M across her ventures and advises numerous startups. She holds a master’s in Engineering Management &amp; Data Mining and a bachelor’s in Operations Research &amp; Industrial Engineering from Cornell University, both on full scholarships. Tiny Health’s team includes leading scientists, physicians, and microbiologists from Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Harvard Medical, and UCSF.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mike Sherbakov serves as General Partner at The Veteran Fund, a pre-seed venture capital fund in Silicon Valley, and Managing Director of the FI San Diego program. As the CEO of Greatness Ventures, he led the organization to thousands of investor members and hundreds of companies in their portfolio. Their venture philanthropy arm has built homes in underdeveloped communities since 2014 and continues to lead impact trips open for the community to join. Mike previously founded three startups, helped grow two companies from $0 to over $20M, and consulted with leading brands including Fitbit, lululemon athletica, Equinox, and Qualcomm.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Linda Avey is a Founding Managing Partner of Humain Ventures, investing in category-defining tech bio companies; and was at the forefront of the digital health movement as a Founder of 23andMe, and as the first independent board director of Rock Health. Her interests span precision health, AI-driven drug development, and the emergence of biology as a programmable operating system for health and longevity. Linda sits on the board of fellows of Stanford Medical School and is a current or former advisor to health and science companies including Colossal Biosciences (driving de-extinction), Verily (Alphabet’s life science subsidiary), and Ôura (a leading health tracking wearable). She is also a director at the Human Immunome Project and an advisor to London-based Giant Ventures and the Autism Impact Fund.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cara Abbott is the Founder &amp; CEO at Betterleave, the leading experience platform built to support individuals and families as they navigate serious illness, end-of-life &amp; loss. Cara is also a Partner at Everywhere Ventures, a global pre-seed fund backed by 500 founders and operators; an Advisor for the Founder Institute; and a member of the Forbes HR Council. Prior to Betterleave, she co-founded Code Pilot, one of the fastest growing developer training &amp; recruitment platforms for hiring teams. Code Pilot was acquired by AngelList in 2020. Cara loves to partner with founders and leaders to support complex organizational and high-growth people initiatives for successful outcomes -- including WorldFirst, Acquisition and RetailMeNot, IPO.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rajeev Behera is the Founder &amp; CEO of Every.io, an All-in-One back office platform for technology companies that simplifies entity formation, banking, bookkeeping, corporate cards, reimbursements, taxes, payroll, compliance, R&amp;D tax credits, benefits, and much more. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of Reflektive, where he raised $100 million from a16z and Lightspeed. He built the organization to 250 employees. Reflektive was ranked the 13th fastest growing company in North America by Deloitte in terms of revenue growth.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kamal Hassan is a Managing Partner at Loyal VC, a global venture fund designed to offer above-average returns while preserving capital, through diversification and a unique gate-stage investing process that reduces bias. Loyal is the fund Kamal wished he had available during his 20-year career as an entrepreneurial CEO, and 15 years as an angel investor. It draws upon his professional and philanthropic experiences and networks formed as a Global Director with the Founder Institute accelerator, former INSEAD Alumni Association President, a consultant at Bain &amp; Co, and as an engineer at IMAX.   He has an INSEAD MBA and a degree in engineering physics from Queen's University. He has traveled to over 100 countries and speaks 5 languages.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>George Ploss is the Head of Venture Capital Practice and Head of Oracle NetSuite Startup Accelerator, where he takes the resources of Oracle-NetSuite and uses them to accelerate the success of startups in incubators. He was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign where he received his MBA in finance and strategic leadership along with his bachelor's in African American studies and Political Science. While in undergrad, George enlisted in the Marine Corps, Reserves where he served a total of nine years.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lee Shapiro is a Partner at 7wire Ventures, an investment firm he co-founded over a decade ago. He also served as Chief Financial Officer of Livongo Health [NASDAQ:LVGO] until November 2020. Previously he was President of Allscripts [NASDAQ:MDRX] from 2001 until the end of 2012. His leadership was integral in the execution of over $4B in mergers, acquisitions, and financings. During his tenure as CFO, Livongo also had a successful secondary offering, raised $550M in convertible debt and entered into an agreement to merge at the highest valuation, $18.5B, of any healthcare technology company, based on revenue multiples. The price of $159 per share was over six times the price of Livongo’s shares at the time of its IPO, just 12 months earlier. Lee serves on the National Board of Directors of the American Heart Association as Chair Elect, assuming his new role in July 2025.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Julia Cheek is the Founder and CEO of Everly Health, a digital health company providing virtual-first disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. In just 10 years, Everly Health has served over 50 million people and delivered more than 200 million personalized health insights, giving people crucial information about their health. Julia is a visionary leader, serving on the Board of Directors for Headspace Health and The University of Texas at Austin President's Innovation Board. She demonstrates her passion for entrepreneurship by supporting underrepresented founders, investing in over a dozen healthcare startups. Julia was named a 2024 Digital Health Icon by Rock Health, 2023 Entrepreneur of the Year by Springboard Enterprises, and Fortune Magazine's 2022 15 Most Powerful Women in Startups.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jonathan Greechan is Co-Founder and CEO of the Founder Institute, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator. Since 2009, Jonathan has grown and scaled the organization to chapters in over 200 cities and 95 countries, which have produced over 7000 portfolio companies with nearly $2 billion in venture funding. Previously, Jonathan was a Partner of TheFunded.com; Executive Producer of the Founder Showcase; and Product Manager at RealNetworks (RNWK), a company he joined after its acquisition of Game Trust (a startup that raised $18M+ in venture capital, where he built and led all marketing and content).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cheryl Sew Hoy is the CEO and Founder of Tiny Health, the leading microbiome health platform helping individuals and families optimize their gut and vaginal microbiome. Launched in 2022, Tiny Health pioneered the first at-home gut microbiome test for moms and babies, using shotgun metagenomic sequencing. Since then, it has expanded to serve adults and older children, offering advanced testing for chronic conditions, performance, longevity, and overall health. A repeat founder and entrepreneur, Cheryl was previously Director at Flexiroam, CMO at Hack Reactor, and Founder &amp; CEO of Reclip.It, acquired by Walmart Labs in 2013. She later served as CEO of MaGIC, a $30M government-backed initiative to grow Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem. With expertise in brand building, fundraising, and scaling startups, Cheryl has raised $34M across her ventures and advises numerous startups. She holds a master’s in Engineering Management &amp; Data Mining and a bachelor’s in Operations Research &amp; Industrial Engineering from Cornell University, both on full scholarships. Tiny Health’s team includes leading scientists, physicians, and microbiologists from Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Harvard Medical, and UCSF.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Allison Ellsworth is the Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer of Poppi: the modern soda brand revolutionizing soda for the next generation. She created poppi after discovering the benefits of apple cider vinegar and experimenting in her kitchen to make it taste great. From the farmers market to a Shark Tank deal, poppi quickly became one of the fastest-growing non-alcoholic beverages in the U.S. and is the #1 selling soda on Amazon. Ellsworth leads the Austin-based beverage company’s overall brand strategy, creative, and innovation. She pioneered the brand’s cultural cache and digital-first approach, attracting a loyal community of over 1M followers, over 2B+ page views on TikTok and celebrity brand fans including Kim Kardashian, Post Malone, Alix Early, Hailey Bieber, Billie Eilish and more. Allison has been recognized in the 2024 Inc. Female Founders 250 and Founder of the Year from Modern Retail. She lives in Austin, TX with her husband and three boys.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mike Sherbakov serves as General Partner at The Veteran Fund, a pre-seed venture capital fund in Silicon Valley, and Managing Director of the FI San Diego program. As the CEO of Greatness Ventures, he led the organization to thousands of investor members and hundreds of companies in their portfolio. Their venture philanthropy arm has built homes in underdeveloped communities since 2014 and continues to lead impact trips open for the community to join. Mike previously founded three startups, helped grow two companies from $0 to over $20M, and consulted with leading brands including Fitbit, lululemon athletica, Equinox, and Qualcomm.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy- right after FX Texas) - Lee Shapiro</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lee Shapiro is a Partner at 7wire Ventures, an investment firm he co-founded over a decade ago. He also served as Chief Financial Officer of Livongo Health [NASDAQ:LVGO] until November 2020. Previously he was President of Allscripts [NASDAQ:MDRX] from 2001 until the end of 2012. His leadership was integral in the execution of over $4B in mergers, acquisitions, and financings. During his tenure as CFO, Livongo also had a successful secondary offering, raised $550M in convertible debt and entered into an agreement to merge at the highest valuation, $18.5B, of any healthcare technology company, based on revenue multiples. The price of $159 per share was over six times the price of Livongo’s shares at the time of its IPO, just 12 months earlier. Lee serves on the National Board of Directors of the American Heart Association as Chair Elect, assuming his new role in July 2025.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy- right after FX Texas) - Cara McCarty Abbott</image:title>
      <image:caption>Cara Abbott is the Founder &amp; CEO at Betterleave, the leading experience platform built to support individuals and families as they navigate serious illness, end-of-life &amp; loss. Cara is also a Partner at Everywhere Ventures, a global pre-seed fund backed by 500 founders and operators; an Advisor for the Founder Institute; and a member of the Forbes HR Council. Prior to Betterleave, she co-founded Code Pilot, one of the fastest growing developer training &amp; recruitment platforms for hiring teams. Code Pilot was acquired by AngelList in 2020. Cara loves to partner with founders and leaders to support complex organizational and high-growth people initiatives for successful outcomes -- including WorldFirst, Acquisition and RetailMeNot, IPO.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy- right after FX Texas) - George Ploss</image:title>
      <image:caption>George Ploss is the Head of Venture Capital Practice and Head of Oracle NetSuite Startup Accelerator, where he takes the resources of Oracle-NetSuite and uses them to accelerate the success of startups in incubators. He was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign where he received his MBA in finance and strategic leadership along with his bachelor's in African American studies and Political Science. While in undergrad, George enlisted in the Marine Corps, Reserves where he served a total of nine years.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy- right after FX Texas) - Julia Cheek</image:title>
      <image:caption>Julia Cheek is the Founder and CEO of Everly Health, a digital health company providing virtual-first disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. In just 10 years, Everly Health has served over 50 million people and delivered more than 200 million personalized health insights, giving people crucial information about their health. Julia is a visionary leader, serving on the Board of Directors for Headspace Health and The University of Texas at Austin President's Innovation Board. She demonstrates her passion for entrepreneurship by supporting underrepresented founders, investing in over a dozen healthcare startups. Julia was named a 2024 Digital Health Icon by Rock Health, 2023 Entrepreneur of the Year by Springboard Enterprises, and Fortune Magazine's 2022 15 Most Powerful Women in Startups.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy- right after FX Texas) - Kamal Hassan</image:title>
      <image:caption>Kamal Hassan is a Managing Partner at Loyal VC, a global venture fund designed to offer above-average returns while preserving capital, through diversification and a unique gate-stage investing process that reduces bias. Loyal is the fund Kamal wished he had available during his 20-year career as an entrepreneurial CEO, and 15 years as an angel investor. It draws upon his professional and philanthropic experiences and networks formed as a Global Director with the Founder Institute accelerator, former INSEAD Alumni Association President, a consultant at Bain &amp; Co, and as an engineer at IMAX.   He has an INSEAD MBA and a degree in engineering physics from Queen's University. He has traveled to over 100 countries and speaks 5 languages.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy- right after FX Texas) - Linda Avey</image:title>
      <image:caption>Linda Avey is a Founding Managing Partner of Humain Ventures, investing in category-defining tech bio companies; and was at the forefront of the digital health movement as a Founder of 23andMe, and as the first independent board director of Rock Health. Her interests span precision health, AI-driven drug development, and the emergence of biology as a programmable operating system for health and longevity. Linda sits on the board of fellows of Stanford Medical School and is a current or former advisor to health and science companies including Colossal Biosciences (driving de-extinction), Verily (Alphabet’s life science subsidiary), and Ôura (a leading health tracking wearable). She is also a director at the Human Immunome Project and an advisor to London-based Giant Ventures and the Autism Impact Fund.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy- right after FX Texas) - Rajeev Behera</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rajeev Behera is the Founder &amp; CEO of Every.io, an All-in-One back office platform for technology companies that simplifies entity formation, banking, bookkeeping, corporate cards, reimbursements, taxes, payroll, compliance, R&amp;D tax credits, benefits, and much more. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of Reflektive, where he raised $100 million from a16z and Lightspeed. He built the organization to 250 employees. Reflektive was ranked the 13th fastest growing company in North America by Deloitte in terms of revenue growth.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy- right after FX Texas) - Martin Tobias</image:title>
      <image:caption>Martin Tobias is the founder of Incisive Ventures, a Pre-Seed Fund based in Seattle. Incisive Ventures invests in technology companies that reduce friction at scale, leveraging the vast network Martin built as an angel investor in over 60 companies in the sector. Among these, 4 stand out as unicorns that have collectively secured $2.5B+ in follow-on financing. Martin's entrepreneurial journey is extensive. He has invested in over 250 companies as an angel, partnered with a major VC firm, and has become a limited partner in over a dozen VC funds. Additionally, he founded the leading Angel network, Element8. With experience from Microsoft, Accenture, and as a three-time venture-backed CEO, Martin has successfully secured over $500M in funding for his companies, marking two of them with successful IPOs.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy- right after FX Texas) - Mercedes Bankston</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mercedes Bankston is the Director of the FI Silicon Valley program and an Advisor to Loyal VC. She specializes in jump-starting new business units, re-launching failed units, and rolling out new products, primarily in innovative technical companies. She is also an expert in global investments in high-potential tech startups.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Adeo Ressi is CEO of Decile Group, which runs the leading venture capital accelerator VC Lab and operates the Decile Hub platform. Adeo is also Executive Chairman at the Founder Institute. Adeo has launched 14 VC funds and founded 11 startups, having nearly $2 billion in exits before the age of 30. He previously served on the Board of the X Prize foundation to pursue his interests in space exploration, and studied architecture and spent time living on a commune to explore his interests in designing better ways to live. Adeo is passionate about inspiring people to achieve their potential.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jonathan Greechan is Co-Founder and CEO of the Founder Institute, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator. Since 2009, Jonathan has grown and scaled the organization to chapters in over 200 cities and 95 countries, which have produced over 7000 portfolio companies with nearly $2 billion in venture funding. Previously, Jonathan was a Partner of TheFunded.com; Executive Producer of the Founder Showcase; and Product Manager at RealNetworks (RNWK), a company he joined after its acquisition of Game Trust (a startup that raised $18M+ in venture capital, where he built and led all marketing and content).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Esosa Ighodaro co-founded Black Women Talk Tech, the largest collective of Black women tech founders, supporting over 150,000 global entrepreneurs. She drives strategy, partnerships, and marketing for the organization, which includes the Roadmap to Billions Conference and AcceleratorCON. She is also an Angel &amp; LP Investor, and a Scout for Zeal Capital Partners. With 15+ years in entrepreneurship and corporate roles, Esosa has been named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Most Powerful Women and featured in outlets like Forbes, ELLE, and NBC.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Paul Kwiatkowski is co-founder at GroupRaise, a leading platform for community groups, charities, and other non-profits to fundraise by partnering with a variety of merchants and brands, from restaurants to movie theaters and more. Prior to GroupRaise, he received a degree in Computer Science from Rice University and assisted with product development at several startups as they were going from zero to one. Paul has a deep empathy for the challenges faced by entrepreneurs in their first stages of growth, and was co-organizer of the Houston Lean Startup Circle for three years. Over the last decade, he has mentored and advised startups through his involvement in multiple accelerators, including the Founder Institute in Houston.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gabe Dominocielo is the President and Co-founder of Umbra, a technology company specializing in advanced space systems to both commercial and government clients. Before establishing Umbra in 2015, Dominocielo co-founded and served as Chief Operating Officer of a legal services firm whose panel attorneys achieved over $1 billion in verdicts and settlements. Under his leadership, Umbra has distinguished itself by offering the highest-resolution commercial satellite images available, utilizing proprietary technology to capture clear imagery through clouds and at night. Dominocielo is recognized for his pragmatic approach to the space industry, emphasizing sound unit economics and transparent business practices. He advocates for strong partnerships free of channel conflicts and has implemented transparent, self-service scheduling and tasking, permissive licensing, and clear public universal pricing at Umbra.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rob Kaminski (Co-founder of Fletch) has helped over 400 B2B startups develop their positioning strategies and translate those strategies into clear homepage messaging.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jason Calacanis is an entrepreneur, author, and angel investor in over 250 startups, including 7 "unicorns". He also hosts the popular podcasts 'This Week in Startups' and 'All-In'. Named “arguably the world’s greatest angel investor” by The Twenty Minute VC, Jason was among the early investors in companies such as Uber, Robinhood, Wealthfront, Thumbtack, and Trello. He is the author of "Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups" (Harper Collins, 2017) and serves as Founder &amp; CEO of LAUNCH (which encompasses the LAUNCH Festival and the LAUNCH Incubator). Additionally, he is the Founder &amp; CEO of Inside.com, among other ventures.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lyn Graft is the Founder of Storytelling for Entrepreneurs, an online platform for founders to help create, tell, and share their story; an author of Start with Story: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Using Story to Grow Your Business. Over the last fifteen years, Lyn has filmed and captured the stories of more than five hundred of the world’s top entrepreneurs, including the founders of LinkedIn, Starbucks, Dell, and Whole Foods. He has produced more than eight hundred videos focused on entrepreneurs, startups, and business content, and dedicated twenty thousand hours to studying and practicing entrepreneurial storytelling. Lyn is an entrepreneur, producer, dog lover, and co-creator of CNBC’s American Made.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Andrew Tauhert is the Chief Impact Officer at XPRIZE, responsible for driving and enabling the foundation’s impact across all of our programs, including program fundraising, strategic partnerships and activating the ecosystem of organizations and individuals who guide and support our work. Lastly, Andrew oversees the “visioneering” process at XPRIZE which convenes experts and thought leaders in their respective domains to chart the future direction of the foundation and focus of its forthcoming prizes. Andrew came to XPRIZE with over 25 years of experience driving successful results in large enterprises and startups operating throughout high tech, telecom/networking, data and AI. Andrew is the former COO of Prodea Systems, a leader in Internet of Things Solutions, as well as Founder and Managing Director of VaticX Inc., a global accelerator with best practices to optimize value creation for growth stage AI, DLT, IoT, and Edge Computing companies.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sunil is the Managing Partner at Feedback and a founding partner of SuperAdvisors. Over the past decade, he has invested in tech startups, amassing a portfolio of 150+ active investments through various funds, including Techstars. As the Managing Partner of Techstars Toronto, he made 100 direct investments across 16 countries and achieved 8 successful exits. Previously, Sunil was a Managing Partner at Extreme Venture Partners, where he co-founded Extreme Startups—an early equity-based pre-seed accelerator in Canada. Additionally, Sunil supports over 450 portfolio companies launched through the Founder Institute's pre-accelerator program, representing the largest active startup portfolio in Canada. Sunil also co-hosts the Collision Conference, an annual event attracting over 40,000 attendees to Toronto and part of the global WebSummit series held in cities like Doha, Lisbon, Hong Kong, and Rio de Janeiro.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Attend (Copy- right after FX Texas) - Harvin Moore</image:title>
      <image:caption>As a Principal of Frontera Technology Ventures (“FTV”), Harvin Moore has invested in and advised growth-stage technology companies. He has been involved in the Houston and Texas technology innovation movement since the 1990s as a startup entrepreneur, mentor, advisor, investor, and limited partner of one of Houston's leading startup development organizations and co-working hubs. From 2019 to 2021, Harvin served as President and CEO of Houston Exponential ("HX"), an independent non-profit which works to accelerate the growth of Houston's rapidly expanding technology innovation ecosystem. Harvin currently serves on several boards including Space Workforce Incubator for Texas (SWIFT), KIPP Houston, TXRX Labs, NASA’s Space Center Houston, and the Powell Foundation.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Steve Munisteri is a Senior Advisor to the Governor of the State of Texas, Greg Abbott. In 2017, Munisteri joined the Trump Administration as White House Deputy Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy Director of the Office of Public Liaison. Munisteri served as Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas from 2010 to 2015. Prior to his chairmanship, Munisteri founded his own law firm in 1982 and an oil and gas investment company in 1989. From Houston, Texas, Munisteri received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Texas.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Pat LaPointe is the Chairman at Entrelliance, Managing Director at Frontier Angels, and an entrepreneur who built and sold three companies in the marketing and data analytics field. These days he brings a very entrepreneur-friendly approach to angel and venture investing, and served on the Board of the Angel Capital Association. With a portfolio of over 60 investments and afflicted by endless curiosity, Pat enjoys learning about new business models and innovative technologies and loves helping entrepreneurs find their path to growth and success.</image:caption>
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