A serial entrepreneur who exited his first company, Piper, after raising $15M from top-tier investors. Mark arrived in New Zealand as an Edmund Hillary Fellow just before the 2020 lockdown and saw an opportunity to empower Kiwi founders with global ambition.

Hendrik's venture journey began in Europe, leading the expansion of Founders Intelligence before its acquisition by Accenture. At Merantix, he helped build Europe's leading AI venture studio and co-founded AI House Davos. Now based in Australia, he's passionate about scaling ANZ startups globally.

Formerly leading the Applied Machine Intelligence team at Google Brain, Glen has invested in over 50 early-stage companies across deep tech, B2B SaaS, and consumer sectors. He brings deep AI expertise and venture experience from Monta Vista Capital to New Zealand's startup ecosystem.

With 22 years in the financial industry across Asia, Europe, and North America, Ajay led equity trading at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Now based in the Bay Area, he's an active investor in early-stage startups spanning deep tech, healthcare, and AI-driven technologies.

An early-stage investor and advisor in the Asia-Pacific startup ecosystem for over a decade. As an Edmund Hillary Fellow, Vishal co-founded Xelp, a technology services company that went public in India in 2019. His global experience includes roles at Coca-Cola and RBS.

A technologist with a passion for open-source and crypto, Rich has held technical roles at Singularity University and Kiva.org. He's also a founding member of SpaceBase, contributing to the growth of innovative communities.

2x startups sold. $30M invested into startups via 500 Startups. Believer in community movements.

Danielle is a cofounder and general partner of 1517, a top tier pre-seed fund backed by investors like Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen.

On demand services, international growth, scaling engineering teams, content and editorial.

Rohit is an Aerospace Engineer focused on building the future of urban aviation.

Cody’s recent work spans from performance benchmarking of hardware and software systems (i.e., DAWNBench and MLPerf) to computationally efficient methods for data selection.

Casey is a Founder and CEO at Amplifier with a passion for empowering other founders and high-growth startups.

Daria Zhao drives product-led growth (PLG) for B2B SaaS. She focuses on modern GTM: layering bottom-up product adoption with top-down sales expansion to drive >100% y/y growth.

Seasoned Advisor, Entrepreneur, Keynote Speaker, Professor & Investor based in Beijing and Bali now well into my third decade in Asia where I help startups build, scale-ups grow and organizations innovate.

She built a new way of making data visualization accessible for viusally impaired users, and open-sourced the Android solution in 2019.

Angel investor in 20+ startups + mentor at Spearhead; Co-Founder of After School, a teen social network with ~20m users. Acquihired by Ancestry

Angel investor in 20+ startups + mentor at Spearhead; Co-Founder of After School, a teen social network with ~20m users. Acquihired by Ancestry

Compiler engineer and rapid prototyping expert.

A generalist operator across various industries including logistics, electric vehicles, saas, charity, investments.

An experienced leader and business all rounder with a passion for start-ups, clinical trials, biotech and the Asian Pacific region.

John is currently CEO of TracMap, a profitable, growing international AgTech company with head quarters in NZ.

He is best known as the Co-founder and Former CEO of HUBBA, Thailand’s first coworking space.

Matt is a Taiwanese venture investor, serial entrepreneur, company advisor and former junior tennis player.

Lenka is the CPO for Girlup Entrepreneurs and a product leader for Zynga, Meta, and Moody's. She led a PM team through the IPO process for Skillz, and provides PM training and coaching. Experienced in fintech B2B, gaming, and social media.

10+ years Internet startup experience, built two market place businesses backed by top VCs from Silicon Valley and China.

Launched and scaled two global nonprofit organizations (education and youth empowerment).