Alice joined Upfront in 2018, with a focus on biology and deep tech. Prior to joining Upfront, Alice spent two years at the Boston Consulting Group in San Francisco, where she advised enterprise technology and biopharma clients. Alice also supported business development and operations at the Rare Genomics Institute, a nonprofit connecting families in the rare disease space. Alice received her PhD in biomedical engineering from a joint program between the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, and Peking University.

Mira Chaurushiya, Ph.D. joined 5AM Ventures in 2015 as an Associate and was promoted to Principal in 2018. Dr. Chaurushiya joined from Genentech where she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physiological Chemistry studying mouse models of cancer and stem cells. Prior to Genentech, she completed her Ph.D. work at the Salk Institute, where she studied Herpes Simplex Virus infections and epigenetics. Her work has been published in Science and PNAS, among others. 

Michael will discuss B2B SAAS. Investment Group of Santa Barbara (IGSB) is a private investment company and familyoffice focused on building world-class software businesses. We were founded in 1968 andhave never taken capital from outside investors. Over our 50+ year history we have builtmore than 30 companies as lead investors. IGSB makes direct investments in both privateand public companies emphasizing a concentrated portfolio and significant strategicinvolvement.rformed.

Jack joined PeakSpan Capital in 2016. Prior to joining PeakSpan, Jack was a team member in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Investment Banking Group at Macquarie Capital where he evaluated principal investing opportunities, provided M&A advisory services and worked on a number of capital markets transactions with growth-stage technology businesses. 

Prior to joining Greycroft, Brentt led business development at Operator Inc., a venture stage company in the conversational commerce space and worked on technology commercialization at Numenta Inc., an artificial intelligence research company. Brentt also worked at Detroit Venture Partners, where he led investment diligence and supported portfolio companies. Brentt started his career in investment banking at Credit Suisse in Los Angeles, focusing on leveraged buyouts and debt financing transactions.

“Suz” is an associate on the Pelion investment team, Suz focuses on building Pelion’s sourcing pipeline, performing due diligence, and working with existing portfolio companies. Suz is passionate about investing in companies that will change the world as we know it today. She is focused in sourcing interesting deals within Vertical SaaS and Frontier Tech, and spends time researching companies within industries she believes are ready for disruption.