Venture Capital Websites

David Chang is GM, Expert Network at Hunt Club and Founding Member at TBD Angels. He has 20 years of operating experience at early-stage startups and large companies. As an entrepreneur, he has held operating roles at 6 internet/mobile startups that raised $150m and were acquired for $750m. He has invested in 100 companies as an angel investor. He was previously the CEO of Gradifi (E*TRADE), EIR at Harvard Business School, and Director of the Babson Summer Venture Program. David holds a BS with Distinction in Computer Science from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

QuHarrison Terry is an American author, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and growth marketing leader. He is a venture capitalist with Mark Cuban Companies, advising over 200 portfolio companies. He is the co-author of The NFT Handbook and The Metaverse Handbook, as well as The Japanese Handbook and the novel Last Train To Us. Terry co-founded LearnJapanese.com and leads BrandDeals.com as its President. He also sits on the Board of Directors at Nextsense. He previously led marketing efforts at Redox. Terry is a four-time recipient of LinkedIn’s Top Voices in Technology award and a co-host of CNBC’s primetime series No Retreat: Business Bootcamp. He has presented at CES, SXSW, TEDx, and Harvard Business School.

Muhammad Altalib is a product owner at Cur8 Capital, where he focuses on solving problems using technology. He specializes in all aspects of digital product development, excluding coding. Currently, he works at IslamicFinanceGuru, aiming to empower Muslims to achieve financial parity. Previously, Muhammad was a VC Principle at Cur8.VC, investing in early-stage startups. He has been responsible for over 100 investments with 2 exits and 2 failures. He also founded Seedlink Africa, a startup that aimed to bring Malawi's small-scale farmers into the formal economy. Seedlink Africa worked with over 100,000 farmers and was backed by the University of Cambridge and Barclays.

Nathan Lustig is an entrepreneur and investor. He is currently the managing partner at Magma Partners, a seed stage investment fund and accelerator based in Santiago, Chile. Nathan bought ExchangeHut.com in 2005 and grew it into a national business before it was acquired in 2008. He co-founded Entrustet, which was later acquired by SecureSafe. In 2010, he moved to Santiago, Chile as part of Startup Chile. He also wrote a book called Startup Chile 101. Nathan founded Capital Entrepreneurs and cofounded Madison’s Forward Technology Conference. He also worked as head of marketing at Welcu and taught entrepreneurship at three Chilean universities.

Martin Ferfers is an inventor, investor, and "architect of ideas" focused on bringing ideas to life that improve the world or make it more fun. He co-founded a web design agency while in school and later studied arts, film, literature, and European Business. He co-founded Grünspar and invented a paper-saving paper bin. Martin has worked with Sturm und Drang, Zukunftsinstitut, and supersieben. He has co-founded or supported ventures like Lykon, Thiocyn, and Wowlabs. He invests in innovative areas like Crypto, Gene Editing, and Climate Tech.

Zach Ware is a private company investor and real estate developer at Freehouse Capital Partners. Previously, he led product at Zappos, was an early-stage VC at VTF Capital, and led a large-scale development of Downtown Las Vegas. He also founded and ran several startups. Zach lives between Austin and Northwest Montana, but will be mostly based in NYC from October 2025 to March 2026. In his spare time, he is a competitive hybrid athlete and amateur river guide. His primary focus is Freehouse Partners, a multi-strategy real estate development firm focused on acquiring and developing generational real estate in hard-to-access growth markets of the Upper Rockies. He also invests and co-owns two operating companies.

Jose Paul Martin helps companies raise money and grow their business. He has experience helping businesses scale and grow, and shares insights from his experience as a relationship builder, legal negotiator, financial modeler, and management consultant. He has worked on deals over USD 300 million in emerging markets like Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey, and South Asia. He runs ENCAPITA and is building BayFolio, a mutual fund distribution division.

Aamir Virani helps founders build products and develop leadership teams. He has founded multiple companies, helped teams raise capital and exit their businesses, and worked as a venture capitalist. Prior to his work with startups, Aamir studied electrical engineering at Rice University and Stanford University, and worked in hardware engineering at National Instruments. He co-founded Dropcam, which was acquired by Google Nest. In 2021, he was a Presidential Innovation Fellow, working with the National Geo-spatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) to bring software product management into its software development process. He currently works on small software and data products.

Ari Klinger is a founder and investor with a strong interest in tech, marketing, and finance. He enjoys exploring opportunities and working with founders to accelerate their success. He currently invests with No Brand and works with founders via FounderCo. Ari has invested in, advised, or been on the board of companies like AuthSignal, Design.com, and Hipages. Previously, he founded iMega, OMG: Online Marketing Group, and Spring.me. He was also a founding partner of Right Click Capital and Right Click Partners.

Mark Xu is working to improve global coordination. He was previously the first employee at the Alignment Research Center, where he worked on aligning AI systems with human interests. Before that, he was a student at Caltech. He has a blog with his partner Sidney at markandsid.com. He can be found on Google Scholar and iNaturalist. He has written about theoretical research, London, commitments, and preference utilitarians. He also has photos of birds, alpine environments, landscapes, fungi, cooking, mammals, and bugs. He has videos of a great horned owl, burrowing owl, thunderstorm, pika, and yellow-bellied marmot.

Zain Jaffer is the Founder & CEO of a stealth startup. He started his first company at 14. He later moved to the U.S. and co-founded Vungle, an ad tech platform that scaled to $400M+ in annual revenue before being acquired by Blackstone for $780M. Since then, he has invested in 20+ startups and built companies across multiple industries. He supports causes worldwide through the Zain Jaffer Foundation. He has been honored with awards such as Forbes 30 Under 30 and Inc. Magazine’s 35 Under 35. His work has been featured in Mashable’s “Behind the Launch” series and CNBC’s Squawk Box.

Pradeep Nalluri is a technology enthusiast with a passion for learning and building things. He is interested in Cloud Computing, DevOps, and Data Engineering. He currently works as a Cloud Architect. He enjoys automating infrastructure and building CI/CD pipelines. He is also interested in data engineering and building data pipelines. He is always looking for new things to learn and new challenges to tackle. He shares his learnings on his blog.

Christopher Petkas is a former U.S. Navy SEAL who has transitioned into a career in defense innovation, technology, investing, and operating businesses. Born in Houston, Texas, he graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science in International Relations. He was a member of the Men’s Lacrosse team for four years. Chris served as a Surface Warfare Officer before joining the Navy SEALs in 2012, serving until 2020 with five deployments. He earned an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business in 2020. Chris led the commercial artificial intelligence group at the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). Today, Chris is the General Partner at Contrarian Thinking Capital. He and his wife Codie reside in Austin, Texas.

Annika Lewis is a researcher and writer working on the history of technology, science, and medicine. Her current book project examines the history of lead poisoning prevention in the twentieth-century United States. She is also at work on a project tracing the history of electronic fetal monitoring. Annika holds a PhD in History from Princeton University. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Chemical Heritage Foundation.

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