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Lightspeed Ventures ($25 Billion), Moritz Baier-Lentz

Lightspeed Ventures manages $25 Billion, Moritz is a partner there and dropped some serious knowledge for our members

Don Stein
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Nanea Reeves, CEO of Tripp ($26M+)

Nanea is one of the top founders in all of XR. She's raised $26M for her business, and is growing her revenue like crazy as one of the top apps on Meta's Quest store.

Don Stein
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Dean Takahashi (VentureBeat), Ben Lang (Road to VR)

We were joined by legendary writer, Dean Takahashi from VentureBeat, and Ben Lang the founder of Road to VR.

Don Stein
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Niko Bonatsos, General Catalyst ($15 Billion)

Niko is the Managing Director of General Catalyst, a global leader in venture capital investing.

Don Stein
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Esteban Castano, TRM Labs ($100M+)

Esteban Castaño is the co-founder and CEO of TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence firm that helps governments and financial institutions manage risk and combat financial crime. He previously led the technology team at Generation and worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.

Don Stein
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Peter Rojas (Meta)

Peter is part of the product leadership team for Messenger at Meta, tackling some of the company's most complex challenges. He previously led Meta's NPE group and co-founded four successful startups, including Gizmodo/Gawker Media and Engadget, now part of Yahoo.

Don Stein
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Sam Cole, CEO of FitXR ($28M+)

Sam is the CEO and co-founder of FitXR, a leader in immersive VR fitness experiences. With a background in management consulting and private equity, he launched FitXR to revolutionize fitness through virtual reality, providing guided workouts and personalized programs to help people stay active.

Don Stein
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Lizzie Mintus (Here's Waldo Recruting)

Lizzie is the Founder and CEO of Here’s Waldo Recruiting, a firm specializing in recruiting for the video game industry. Known for emphasizing quality and diversity, she helps connect people with their dream jobs while building world-class teams. Lizzie also serves as an ambassador for Women in Games and hosts The Here's Waldo Podcast, sharing insights from gaming and AR/VR industry leaders.

Don Stein
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Harvard MedTech, Shan Padda

Shan is a serial entrepreneur who has founded and sold three healthcare companies prior to Harvard MedTech. He's raised hundreds of millions in the public and private markets over his career, and his VR therapeutics company has crossed the $10 million/yr run rate.

Don Stein
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Andreessen Horowitz, Jack Soslow

Jack is an Investing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz on the A16Z GAMES team

Don Stein
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Kleiner Perkins, Bing Gordon

Bing Gordon joined Kleiner Perkins in 2008 and serves as Chief Product Officer and advisor for the firm.

Don Stein
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Earthling VC, Arian Ghashghai

Arian founded Earthling VC (backed by Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Andrew Chen, Adam Draper).

Don Stein
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Leen Segers, Fors VC

Leen Segers is Managing Director at ForsVC Partners NV.

Don Stein
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Anorak Ventues, Amal Dorai

Amal is an entrepreneur who sold his last business to Microsoft, turned investor

Don Stein
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Greg Castle (Anorak Ventures)

Greg is the managing partner of Anorak Ventures, a seed-stage firm focused on emerging technologies. He has invested in over 90 startups, including five valued at over $1 billion, such as Oculus and Rec Room, with his portfolio raising $2.5 billion and reaching a total market cap of $15.2 billion.

Don Stein
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Paola Origel (Chainlink Capital)

Paola is the Co-founder and CEO of Hyla Fund Management, a hedge fund specializing in emerging technologies. With over 18 years of experience, she integrates traditional finance with cutting-edge innovations like blockchain and AI, aiming to reshape global infrastructure across industries.

Don Stein
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Braitman & Co, Larry Braitman

Larry is a seasoned investor with a talent for identifying early-stage companies on the brink of success. He co-founded Flycast Communications, which sold for $2.2 billion, and Adify, which sold for $350 million, while also playing a key role in Flixster's $80 million deal with Warner Brothers.

Don Stein
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Meta, Anand Dass

Anand is a tech leader with over 20 years of experience across developer platforms, enterprise SaaS, and AR/VR. He co-founded a Y Combinator-backed virtual desktop company acquired in 2014 and later played a pivotal role in growing Postmates to nearly $1 billion in annualized GMV. At Meta, Anand now leads efforts to expand Virtual & Mixed Reality content across multiple verticals.

Don Stein
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Progression Fund, Mark Linao

Mark is an investor focused on media, entertainment, gaming and consumer internet. Mark has extensive experience in corporate venture and development.

Don Stein
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FOV Ventures, Dave Haynes

Based in UK, Dave Haynes is partner at FOV Ventures, backing founders building for a new era of computing. We're investing at the earliest stage and at the intersection of frontier technologies such as spatial, AI and robotics.

Don Stein
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Leen(Fors VC), Ives(Cyborn)

We were joined by Leen from Fors VC, and Ives from Cyborn

Don Stein
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Meta, May-May Chen

May-May runs the Lifestyle Accelerator for XR apps at Meta, where she helps guide developers in shaping and framing their applications to align with Meta's focus.

Don Stein
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Sfermion, Andrew Steinwold

Andrew is a Managing Partner at Sfermion and runs a $100M venture fund focused on the metaverse. Based in Chicago, he has over 6 years of experience investing in tech that enables a more immersive and intelligent internet, having first bought Bitcoin in 2013.

Don Stein
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Nanea Reeves, CEO of Tripp ($26M+) Part 2

Nanea is one of the top founders in all of XR. She's raised $26M for her business, and is growing her revenue like crazy as one of the top apps on Meta's Quest store.

Don Stein
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5 min read
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Blueprint, Danny Freed

Danny is the Founder and CEO of Blueprint, a SaaS platform that helps Behavioral Health Organizations measure and improve the quality of care at scale. Before Blueprint, he co-founded Companion, an award-winning personal safety app used by millions, and led product and design at Trunk Club, which was acquired by Nordstrom.

Don Stein
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ShapesXR, Inga Petryaevskaya

Inga is the Founder and CEO of ShapesXR, an award-winning startup that democratizes spatial design and collaboration for everyone. With a background in innovation at Siemens and Dell EMC, she transitioned into entrepreneurship to explore the transformative potential of VR. Inga previously co-founded Tvori, a pioneering VR animation software, before creating ShapesXR to empower users to design immersive experiences in XR, regardless of their 3D expertise.

Don Stein
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Shpere, Michael Rucker

Michael is the former owner and COO of OmniVirt, a VR advertising startup acquired by Facebook in 2020. He previously served as the head of content at YouTube and is currently working with Madison Square Garden’s Sphere to create the world’s highest resolution LED screen.

Don Stein
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Virtual Speech, Sophie Thompson

Sophie is the co-founder of VirtualSpeech, a multi-award-winning platform that combines e-learning with VR to enhance soft skills training. Since launching the world’s first VR public speaking application in 2016, VirtualSpeech has helped over 350,000 students worldwide and earned recognition from Forbes as one of the ten best online business courses.

Don Stein
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Augmodo, Ross Finman

Ross is the CEO of Augmodo, a company transforming the grocery store experience through AI and AR. Before Augmodo, he spent 4 ½ years at Niantic, where he founded the AR mapping and Visual Positioning System (VPS) and helped build Niantic's AR platform, Lightship.

Don Stein
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Ori Inbar (Augmented World Expo)

Ori is the founder of Super Ventures, the first early-stage fund dedicated to Augmented Reality (AR), and the co-founder and CEO of AWE XR, a global community driving the growth of AR and VR. Since 2010, AWE has connected over 50,000 professionals and 5,000 companies in the XR ecosystem through conferences, meetups, and educational content. Ori has been a pioneer in the AR industry since 2007, having co-founded Ogmento, one of the first AR game development companies, and the Augmented World Expo, the world’s largest AR conference.

Don Stein
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Zach Muligan (ZOP Studios)

Zach is the founder of ZOPStudios, a company focused on using Virtual and Augmented Reality to help creatives tell stories in new, immersive ways. As a 3D artist based in Los Angeles, his digital artwork and AR filters have garnered millions of views, and he has contributed to major films such as The Bad Guys, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, and Black Adam.

Don Stein
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Tony Parisi (WebGL)

Tony is a pioneer in the Metaverse and virtual reality space, known for co-creating international 3D graphics standards and authoring foundational books on VR and 3D programming.

Don Stein
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Ryan Engle (Golf+, $10M+)

Ryan is the Founder and CEO of GOLF+, a leader in VR golf that aims to make the sport more accessible and enjoyable. With over a decade of experience developing apps for Fortune 500 companies, Ryan is revolutionizing golf through augmented and virtual reality, having launched GOLF+ in partnership with the PGA of America.

Don Stein
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Andrea Wang (General Catalyst), Adam Draper (Boost VC), Ben Taft (Genius Ventures)

We were joined by some of the top VCs globally: Andrea from General Catalyst, Adam from Boost VC, and Ben from Genius Ventures

Don Stein
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Avris Technologies, Daniel Landau

Daniel is an Entrepreneur, Researcher, and Media Expert..

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ManageXR, Luke Wilson

Luke Wilson has extensive work experience in the XR industry. Luke is the CEO and Founder of ManageXR, a company that focuses on solving challenges related to working with XR at scale. In this role, they are responsible for distributing content, customizing user experiences, and troubleshooting devices.

Don Stein
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Immersed, Renji Bijoy

Renji Bijoy is the founder of Immersed, a startup company that creates virtual reality workspaces for remote teams. They enable ordinary laptops paired with mobile devices for Virtual Reality to produce a fully immersive virtual workplace. They are one of the companies accepted into the TechStars 2017 class. The company partnered with Meta, TikTok, Microsoft, and the other AR/VR tech giants on Virtual Reality Offices and has raised $20M to date.

Don Stein
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AXELAB, Jonathan Ovadia

Jonathan is the CEO of AEXLAB - a virtual reality technology and gaming studio building VAIL VR, a gunplay video game. AEXLAB specializes in creating meaningful technologies for virtual worlds, including gaming, training, simulation, and more.

Don Stein
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Ello, Catalin Voss

Catalin is currently building the world’s first complete AI teacher to maximize the potential of all children. He previously developed an AI-based augmented reality therapy for children with autism which is currently pursuing FDA clearance.

Don Stein
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HP, Angelo Del Priore

Angelo Del Priore is an Investor, Board Member and Advisor with a track record of helping tech companies at all stages grow exponentially. Skilled in Business Development, Negotiations, and Strategy.

Don Stein
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Bert Nepveu (Triptyq Capital), Jeff Crusey (7Percent Ventures), JP Minetos (Hartmann Capital, $55M)

We were joined by three incredible seed stage investors; Bert from Triptyq Capital, Jeff from 7Percent Venture, and JP from Hartmann Capital

Don Stein
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