Green Cow Venture Capital

Samir Saran serves as President of the Observer Research Foundation and founded gTrade, described as India's first Green Index. He chairs organizations working on geo-political and geo-economic issues, cyber security, and internet governance, and previously held the role of VP of Corporate Affairs at Reliance Industries Ltd.

Vikram Lakhwara has worked in startups and venture capital, including a role managing startups and venture capital at Wilson Sonsini, a venture capitalist position at SK Telecom Ventures, and consulting at Reinventures. He is an angel investor and completed cohort #3 of Oper8r. He holds a BA in Economics from Vassar College.

Andrew Hyde is Chairman of Glider.com and has held community leadership roles at Solana and Origin Protocol, where he was the second employee and Head of Community. He was the first employee at Techstars and founded Startup Weekend, Ignite Boulder, and TEDxBoulder.

Ciara Peter has held senior product and design leadership roles across enterprise software companies, including Vice President of Product and Design at Medallia and Gainsight, VP of Product at Betterworks, and Senior Director of Product Design at Salesforce. She was also Head of Consumer and a Senior Director of Product at Box. She is a founding member of Chief, a network for women in leadership roles.

Eleanor Herrin previously served as CEO of Farmdrop, an online food delivery company, and as Finance Director at Clover Health, a data-driven health and fintech company. She spent 17 years at Amazon in various roles, including Head of Finance for Worldwide Amazon Fresh, Prime Pantry, and Amazon Campus. She holds an MBA from Wharton.

Eric Benhamou founded BGV in 2003, focusing on early-stage global enterprise and telecom markets. He previously served as CEO and Chairman of 3Com and as Chairman of Palm, and has served on more than 25 boards, including 10 public companies. Over his career he has participated in 7 IPOs and 35 M&A transactions.

Johnie Lee is a fintech professional with 15 years of experience across Wall Street and technology. He previously led Payment Efficiency teams at Uber and was a founding engineer on Google Wallet Loyalty and Google Handsfree Payment. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Columbia and an MBA from Wharton.

Kyle Bailey has held engineering leadership roles across several technology companies, including Senior Director of Engineering at Cash App and Head of Engineering for Airbnb.org at Airbnb. He previously worked as a software engineer and manager at Uber, where he founded a Black Employee Resource Group, and served as an engineering lead at AirWatch, which was acquired by VMware.

Laura Brightsen was the first limited partner in Initialized Capital and an early investor in Coinbase and Instacart. She previously held senior marketing executive positions at private equity and public companies.

Sara Ahmadian is a Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She co-founded The Laundry, a creative co-working and event space, and founded Seamless Planet, a mobile AI travel concierge that was acquired. She also co-founded the Google-sponsored Robotic Hackathon and works as an advisor and consultant to startups and governments.

Sheel Mohnot is Managing Director at Better Tomorrow Ventures. He previously led global fintech investing at 500 Startups, backing around 200 companies, and has made roughly 30 angel investments. As an entrepreneur he had two exits in fintech, and he speaks on financial innovation, entrepreneurship, and social innovation.

Taz Patel co-founded Captiv8, a social analytics platform serving brands and influencers. He previously served as CRO at Republic Project (acquired by Sizmek) and held sales leadership roles at Interclick and BlueLithium, both acquired by Yahoo!. He is also an angel investor, startup advisor, and mentor.