Sukna Ventures

Dutch strategy and finance professional who began at Rabobank and worked as an Investment Manager at private equity fund Karmijn Kapitaal, then served as CFO of sustainable tech startup BIYU. She founded Investing For Purpose in Greece and holds an MSc in International Economics and Business.

Asher Siddiqui is a technology investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area and serves as Managing Director at Song United, where he oversees the venture investment portfolio of Dug Song, founder of Duo Security. He is building ASILICA, a service that assists founders and tech operators in evaluating investment opportunities and constructing venture portfolios across funds, direct investments, and secondaries. His career spans entrepreneurship, corporate development and M&A, and venture capital as both a general partner and limited partner, including more than 100 early-stage investments and over 20 venture fund investments as an LP.

Founder and CIO of SAM Capital Partners. Previously a senior portfolio manager at Cheyne Capital in London for over six years, building its European equity business, and held senior roles at Morgan Stanley in London and Frankfurt covering German equities. Earlier spent seven years as a fixed income and equity-linked trader at Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt and New York.

Marvin Liao is an investor and former operator who currently serves as an Investment Committee Member at Sukna Ventures and runs Sukna Holdings, an investment holding company. Previously a Partner at 500 Startups and Diaspora VC, he has invested in and worked with over 470 pre-seed and seed-stage startups across digital media, enterprise SaaS, fintech, and other sectors. He spent 10.5 years at Yahoo! in executive roles spanning sales, business development, ad operations, and marketing across multiple regions, most recently managing a business unit that achieved 100% year-over-year revenue growth.