Early-stage founders, pay attention up! You want 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, companion, Index Ventures; Jerry Chen, common companion, Greylock; and Viviana Faga, common companion, Felicis, all of whom will share their 2026 funding priorities throughout AI, information, cloud, robotics, and extra. This seasoned group of VCs offers you their tackle rising sectors and improvements capturing their consideration. Need to discover out the place good cash is headed subsequent? Attend.
Disrupt 2025, occurring October 27-29, at Moscone West in San Francisco. Register right here, make the most of low pricing with as much as $675 off tickets earlier than charges go up.
Pencils down. A deal with automating “forgotten” features and industries.
Nina Achadjian is a companion at Index Ventures, investing throughout seed, enterprise, and progress phases in AI, robotics, enterprise software program, and vertical SaaS. She is worked up by corporations that construct options to automate “forgotten” features 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 Knowledge
Common Associate, Jerry Chen, joined Greylock in 2013, and backs founders with a powerful product and operational sense throughout a spread of sectors, together with AI, information, enterprise functions, cloud infrastructure, and open-source applied sciences. His present investments at Greylock embrace 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 Common Associate at Felicis, bringing over 20 years of expertise designing and constructing model classes for profitable cloud/SaaS and enterprise social corporations. Her experience contains 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 companion and advisor at Emergence Capital. She held management positions in advertising and marketing at Yammer, Salesforce, Platfora, and Zenefits.
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