Gigascale Capital

Victoria Beasley is a Founding Partner at Gigascale, where she co-leads firm strategy, oversees operations, and manages the investment and platform teams. She has over 15 years of experience in climate solutions as an investor, founder, and operator, previously serving as a General Partner at Prelude Ventures and as Head of Finance at solar company Suniva. She also founded an agriculture supply chain company, worked at BCG, and holds an MBA and MS in Environment and Resources from Stanford and a BS in Biology from the University of North Carolina.

Aaron Bernstein leads partnerships at Gigascale Capital, supporting portfolio companies with commercialization through strategic introductions and business development. He previously created and led the Partnerships team at Breakthrough Energy, where he helped raise over $1B for the Catalyst program and built go-to-market support for its portfolio companies. Earlier, he spent 10 years at Facebook (now Meta) building telecom connectivity and infrastructure partner ecosystems, cofounded the Telecom Infra Project, and held roles at Qualcomm, PacketVideo, and PwC. He holds an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and a BA in Political Science from Haverford College.

Evaline Tsai is a Partner at Gigascale Capital who moved from operating roles into venture investing, focusing on commercializing breakthrough science and supporting first-time technical founders. She previously spent two years at Fine Structure Ventures and completed a fellowship at Costanoa Ventures. She founded Y Combinator–backed Cambridge Cancer Genomics during her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge, and later served as the first AI/ML product manager at Samsara, where she was granted four patents. She holds a B.S.E. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Princeton and is a Kauffman Fellow.

Haley Prout is an Associate at Gigascale Capital who applies her background in hardware product engineering to assess the manufacturability of new technologies and customer insight behind them. Before Gigascale, she held climate and investing roles at DCVC, the Stanford Impact Fund, and in state government, developing investment theses on batteries and carbon removal. Earlier, she led orthopedic implant and surgical instrumentation development at Stryker. She holds an MBA–MS in Environment and Resources from Stanford and a BS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Janet Frishberg is a Visiting Talent Partner at Gigascale Capital, where she leads hands-on recruiting for the firm and its portfolio companies. She has over 12 years of experience as a technical recruiter and operator, designing recruiting systems and training programs for startups through public companies, and has worked with 40+ organizations including OpenAI, Deliveroo, Lucid Motors, Discord, and The New York Times. Earlier she spent more than six years at Airbnb, helping grow its engineering team from under 100 to over 1,000, and co-founded the nonprofit Equity for Impact. She holds a BA in Psychology with a minor in Sustainable Food Systems from UC Berkeley.

John Lilly is an Advising Partner at Gigascale Capital with roughly 30 years of experience as a founder, CEO, and investor. He previously spent 8 years as a General Partner at Greylock and was CEO of Mozilla, where he oversaw Firefox's growth. Earlier he co-founded the enterprise security company Reactivity, later acquired by Cisco, and held roles at Apple and Trilogy Software. He is also a Lecturer at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and holds BS and MS degrees from Stanford.

Merrill Feather leads marketing at Gigascale Capital, working with portfolio founders on positioning, go-to-market strategy, and early marketing hires, and also managing the firm's events, internal communications, and platform operations. She has about two decades of product marketing experience across climate tech, software, and consumer brands, and previously cofounded The Regenerates, a climate-focused marketing consultancy where she served as a fractional CMO for early-stage companies. Earlier she led marketing for products at Facebook/Meta, was Head of Marketing at edtech startup Seesaw, and began her career at Hasbro; she holds a BA from Brown University and an MBA from NYU Stern.

Nicolina Quickert is the Executive Assistant at Gigascale, with over 20 years of experience in startup operations and family office management. Before joining Gigascale, she spent nearly eight years at Luminar Technologies, starting as the founder's first executive assistant during the company's stealth phase and staying through its 2024 public offering. She holds a BA in Liberal Arts & Sciences from San Francisco State University.

Philipp Hoffmann is Research & Venture Scout at Gigascale, where he identifies technical innovations and founders by building relationships with universities, labs, and accelerators, and works with Evaline Tsai to help researchers move toward commercialization. He previously spent nearly nine years at Meta building recruiting teams for emerging research areas, including leading research recruiting for AR/VR at Meta Reality Labs (Oculus), and earlier worked at Microsoft on university talent recruiting. He holds a BA in Biblical Languages from Moody Bible Institute and studied Business Administration at Universität Klagenfurt in Austria.

Simran Arora leads finance at Gigascale Capital, where she runs fund accounting, valuations, tax, treasury, management company operations, and LP reporting. She was previously Director of Finance at SemperVirens Venture Capital, Senior Manager of Finance at Khosla Ventures, and Manager of Finance at Brookfield Asset Management, and began her career in audit at Deloitte in India and KPMG in Canada. She is a licensed CPA and holds a Master of Commerce in Accounting & Finance from Annamalai University and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) from Delhi University.