Susan Su

Sumo Group, Inc. is a private company that specializes in building animated ads for marketing campaigns and social media without coding. Sumo Group is based in Austin, TX and was founded in 2010 by Noah Kagan. The company offers a marketing platform that allows users to find influencers and monitor campaign performance. The company also provides thousands of unique images from diverse artists to upgrade marketing campaigns. Additionally, they offer top software deals for entrepreneurs at incredible prices and the latest productivity, marketing, and content tools for businesses with no monthly fees. The CEO is Ayman Al-Abdullah.

500 Startups Management Co LLC (500 Startups) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Dave McClure and Christine Tsai. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Part of MecklerMedia Corp., Inside Network, Inc. is a company that specializes in digital out-of-home advertising networks. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA. The company provides services that help businesses advertise in public spaces using digital displays. Inside Network was acquired by MecklerMedia Corp. on May 12, 2011 for $14.49 million.

Stripe, Inc. is a technology company, which builds economic infrastructure for the Internet. The firm offers services that enable platforms and merchants to run businesses, and to safely conduct online payment transactions. Its products include payments, billing, connect, payouts, atlas, radar, issuing, terminal, corporate card, capital, SaaS platforms, marketplaces pricing, and global guides. The company was founded by John Collison and Patrick Collison in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Toba Capital LLC (Toba Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Vincent C. Smith, Wilder Ramsey and Brinkley Morse. The firm is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.

Sound Ventures LLC (Sound Ventures) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. founded in 2015 by Guy Oseary and Christopher Ashton Kutcher. The firm is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.

Reforge, Inc. is a company that offers advanced growth strategy programs for experienced tech professionals in product, marketing, data, design, and engineering. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and provides a systemic approach to iteration and idea validation to realize the goal of getting to product market fit. The programs offered by Reforge focus on building sophisticated systems of compounding growth, developing effective engineering leaders, and becoming fully data-driven with strategic experimentation skills. Additionally, Reforge teaches frameworks for building, communicating, and executing a product strategy, scaling high-quality product execution across product and engineering teams, defining a technical strategy, optimizing it based on company context, and assessing strategic tradeoffs more effectively. The company also offers programs on developing monetization strategies, managing a marketing team, driving scalable and cost-effective acquisition, and leveraging data to make smart product decisions. The company was founded by Brian K. Balfour and he has been the CEO since incorporation.