Jay Aurora

Taiyō.AI is the worlds first infrastructure intelligence platform. Our objective is to improve efficiency and outcomes for global infrastructure stakeholders by providing better data, intelligence, and tools for early-stage planning across the industry.

Founded in 2011, G Squared is aligned to a fundamental shift – venture-backed companies are staying private longer. As a result, private companies need both primary capital to continue their growth trajectory and transitional capital to provide liquidity to early investors, current and former employees, and other sellers. Positioned at the crux of this liquidity access challenge, G Squared partners with portfolio companies throughout their lifecycle using a fundamentally different approach than traditional VCs. We invest in companies that challenge the status quo and demonstrate a clear path to superior returns, partnering world-class entrepreneurs tackling big problems. G Squared funds have invested in household names such as 23andMe, Coursera, Instacart, Lyft, Pinterest, and Spotify, and in the next generation of disruptors including Auto1 Group, Blend, Bolt, Brex, Capsule, Flexport, Impossible Foods, Toast, and Turo.

Taiyō.AI is the worlds first infrastructure intelligence platform. Our objective is to improve efficiency and outcomes for global infrastructure stakeholders by providing better data, intelligence, and tools for early-stage planning across the industry.

Founded in 2011, G Squared is aligned to a fundamental shift – venture-backed companies are staying private longer. As a result, private companies need both primary capital to continue their growth trajectory and transitional capital to provide liquidity to early investors, current and former employees, and other sellers. Positioned at the crux of this liquidity access challenge, G Squared partners with portfolio companies throughout their lifecycle using a fundamentally different approach than traditional VCs. We invest in companies that challenge the status quo and demonstrate a clear path to superior returns, partnering world-class entrepreneurs tackling big problems. G Squared funds have invested in household names such as 23andMe, Coursera, Instacart, Lyft, Pinterest, and Spotify, and in the next generation of disruptors including Auto1 Group, Blend, Bolt, Brex, Capsule, Flexport, Impossible Foods, Toast, and Turo.

Founded in 2000, Industry Ventures has pioneered flexible capital solutions over the past 25+ years across the life cycle of venture – from seed- and early-stage investing to late-stage secondaries and VC-backed companies transitioning to buyout. Today, the Firm manages over $8 billion on behalf of our Limited Partners and is regarded as a leader in the private technology ecosystem. Our full-scale platform, complementary funds and unparalleled network have contributed to our long-standing track record. Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Washington DC, London and Boston, Industry Ventures continues to be at the forefront of private technology.

The Berkeley Investment Group, founded in 1997 as the California Investment Association, is the first and largest undergraduate investment club at UC Berkeley. As a club we have two goals: to educate our members and have them feel comfortable investing on their own by the time they graduate, and managing our fund with $250,000 of AUM. We pursue a deep-value investing approach combining rigorous fundamental analysis with in-depth financial modelling, a method that has enabled us to regularly beat the S&P500 achieving a 32% return over the last fiscal year.