Niko Bonatsos is a managing director at the venture firm General Catalyst, partnering with founders from seed to growth stage and beyond to build companies that withstand the test of time. Niko focuses his investment strategy on finding first-time technology founders with strong product instincts, a robust appetite for learning, and a desire to create innovations with the potential to benefit millions. Niko is currently obsessed with partnering with young technical founders who are building products for themselves.

Leigh Marie Braswell is a principal at Founders Fund. Before joining Founders Fund, she was an early engineer & the first product manager at Scale AI, where she originally built & later led product development for the LiDAR/3D annotation products, used by many autonomous vehicles, robots, and AR/VR companies as a core step in their machine learning lifecycles. Leigh Marie is originally from Alabama, graduated from MIT, and loves to play poker, run long distances, and scuba dive.

Brett manages the investment team and leads Initialized’s dev tools and crypto deals. Prior to joining Initialized, he cofounded the blog platforms Posthaven and Posterous (acquired by Twitter) and later wrote software for Y Combinator, building its essential internal software systems. He was also a founder of the social news platform Slinkset, which was funded by YC in 2008, and DrawHere, a browser drawing startup acquired by DeviantArt in 2006. He is fond of pinball.

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