John Melas-Kyriazi

What were you doing one year ago? Every day, millions of loyal users log into timehop to relive that day in their social media history. Timehop delivers a satisfying blast-from-the-past that will keep you coming back for more! Founded in 2010, timehop was part of the Winter 2010 class of TechStars NYC. Timehop created the digital nostalgia category and our team continues to lead the industry by reinventing what it means to reminisce in the digital era. Our mission is to connect billions of people globally through new ways of consuming media, storytelling and finding meaning in our digital histories.

Clipboard Health connects healthcare facilities with local professionals who can work unfilled shifts. Patients get improved care, and nurses get more flexibility and higher pay. Nurses can compare work details and pay rates (or negotiate for more) in an open, transparent marketplace. Today, healthcare facilities are understaffed, which can result in poor patient care, regulatory penalties, and employee burnout. Meanwhile, local nurses have time and want to pick up extra shifts. These two parties don’t know each other and aren’t sure if they can work together (licenses, qualifications, or even trust might get in the way). Clipboard Health exists to solve this problem.

At Full Harvest, our vision is a world where there is 0% food waste and 100% full harvests, where all edible produce grown goes towards consumption. We aim to reinvent the produce supply chain with technology to bring the industry online for the first time ever and maximize resources.

Wildtype isn’t plant-based, farmed-raised, or wild-caught. Were making cultivated seafood, starting with sushi-grade salmon.

Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people, on topics including illustration, design, photography, video, freelancing, and more. On Skillshare, millions of members come together to find inspiration and take the next step in their creative journey. Are you looking for a holistic learning solution for your entire organization? Learn about Skillshare for Teams: https://teams.skillshare.com/ Want to work at Skillshare? Our collaborative culture goes far beyond our online community. It’s a real part of the humans-first way we work as a team. We believe the work we do makes a difference in the lives of our members, and our mission extends to ensuring our own team members live balanced, fulfilling lives. That means different things for everyone, but it begins with a workplace that embraces modern flexibility, inclusivity and transparency. See our career opportunities: https://jobs.lever.co/skillshare

Clora is an intelligent platform that matches life science companies with flexible, on-demand expertise. Clora is faster, more cost-efficient, and yields higher quality on-demand talent compared to traditional recruitment methods. Clora has access to the entire global network of life science consultants, with decades of combined industry experience across dozens of roles from companies like Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Novartis, and the FDA. Clora was built by industry veterans who have experienced firsthand the pain and costs associated with staffing projects with the right talent. With Clora, you simply post a project, identifying your unique requirements and our proprietary technology will select up to 3 candidates that meet the specific needs of your project. We have a 100% success rate in matching candidates to projects, within days. Posting a project only takes minutes and is risk free. Post a project today.

Capella, an IonQ company, builds trusted space systems that deliver secure, rapid, and actionable Earth intelligence for our allied partners. Powered by IonQ, we’re creating the world’s first quantum-enabled Earth observation network, transforming how intelligence is delivered through innovation, speed, and trust. As the first U.S. company to launch and operate a commercial SAR constellation, Capella provides precise, high-resolution imagery in any condition, day or night, through clouds, smoke, or darkness. We design for speed, sovereignty, and resilience, delivering reliable, low-latency data that empowers governments and global partners to see, decide, and act with confidence in any environment.

Clora is an intelligent platform that matches life science companies with flexible, on-demand expertise. Clora is faster, more cost-efficient, and yields higher quality on-demand talent compared to traditional recruitment methods. Clora has access to the entire global network of life science consultants, with decades of combined industry experience across dozens of roles from companies like Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Novartis, and the FDA. Clora was built by industry veterans who have experienced firsthand the pain and costs associated with staffing projects with the right talent. With Clora, you simply post a project, identifying your unique requirements and our proprietary technology will select up to 3 candidates that meet the specific needs of your project. We have a 100% success rate in matching candidates to projects, within days. Posting a project only takes minutes and is risk free. Post a project today.

SoundHouse pulls forward the monetary value of your music streaming royalties, providing you with the capital and freedom to do whatever you choose. Use this capital to take advantage of other opportunities, such as investing in new projects, furthering estate planning or making charitable contributions. Lock in the value of your music streaming royalties now and transfer the risk of future performance to us.

Andela was created with one thing in mind: Brilliance is evenly distributed, but opportunity isn’t. Our platform bridges that gap. We specialize in helping our highly-skilled, global technology talent community in emerging markets, connect with hundreds of leading companies like InVision, Cloudflare, and ViacomCBS who leverage Andela to scale their technology teams quickly and cost-effectively. Our talent spans six continents and Andela is backed by investors including Generation Investment Management, SoftBank, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Spark Capital, and Google Ventures.

Our mission is to create a global infrastructure to revolutionize local access to food. Here We believe that healthy food is a right, not a luxury. For this reason, we are dedicated to making fresh food accessible to anyone, anywhere, any time with a complete platform of products and services – the Greenery S, farmhand®, and Client Services - to empower our global community of partners. With this global infrastructure, we aim to revolutionize local access to food for a more sustainable future–not just in terms of the environment, but by also making communities more resilient and secure. Together with our team and network of farmers, we hope to build a future-facing and inclusive world. Today, we have Freight Farmers around the world: snowy Canadian wildernesses, Middle Eastern deserts, concrete urban jungles, and everything in between. While our Freight Farmers have different backgrounds, they all want to shorten the distance that food travels from farm to table. Our farmers rely on container farms as a source of high-quality and sustainable produce, 365 days a year.

We are Spark Capital, investors in products we love by creators we admire, including Affirm, Anthropic, Carta, Cruise, Discord, Oculus, Plaid, Postmates, Slack, Twitter, and Wayfair. We know there are no playbooks or formulas for success and are here to help founders win their own way. We invest across all sectors and stages, and work out of San Francisco, Boston, and New York City.

Academia.edu has built and is expanding the premier distribution and peer review platform for academic research. Guided by our mission to democratize and accelerate the world’s research, Academia aims to make every academic paper ever published available for free online and accessible by anyone in the world. This is just the start of our long-term vision and we are growing fast! Academia’s platform has registered more than 210 million users (still growing at 2M monthly), and has many millions of unique visitors every month, including over 30M logged-in monthly active users (MAU). We have over 300,000 paying premium subscribers, which has contributed to us being profitable YOY the last five years in a row. Academia has attracted $62 million in investment from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital, and Tencent. Our work has garnered favorable attention from trade and mainstream media including UK Times, Fortune, Wired, EdTech, Venture Beat, San Francisco Business Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scientific American, and Forbes. Our Remote Work Policy * You can work 100% remotely from anywhere in the US or Canada if you are legally living and working in the USA or a Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident Academia is a proud equal-opportunity employer, and we are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. *NOTE: LinkedIn is incorrect. As of January 2023, we are only ~72 employees and ~38 Engineers.

First Round is a venture capital firm that works with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an “imagine if.” We fill in where we can until the team is filled out, tackling crucial early hiring and equipping those who are great at building product with the skills to sell it, too. By getting the foundational firsts right, we increase the odds of finding extreme product-market fit. Our founders’ “imagine ifs” have turned into companies like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square.

8VC is a venture capital fund based in Austin, Texas. For more information, please visit www.8VC.com

Investors like General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Accel use Standard Metrics to streamline partner meetings, portfolio reviews, LP reporting, valuations processes, and performance benchmarking.

What were you doing one year ago? Every day, millions of loyal users log into timehop to relive that day in their social media history. Timehop delivers a satisfying blast-from-the-past that will keep you coming back for more! Founded in 2010, timehop was part of the Winter 2010 class of TechStars NYC. Timehop created the digital nostalgia category and our team continues to lead the industry by reinventing what it means to reminisce in the digital era. Our mission is to connect billions of people globally through new ways of consuming media, storytelling and finding meaning in our digital histories.