Nik Nayar

Stability AI sparked the Generative AI revolution with the release of Stable Diffusion in August 2022, marking our position as a global leader in the field. We develop cutting-edge open models in image, video, 3D, and audio, as well as professional applications designed for enterprise-grade visual media creation. Our models have garnered immense popularity among creators, developers and enterprises alike, with over 260 million downloads and counting. Stability AI has been recognized as one of Fortunes 50 AI Innovators and as one of Times Most Influential Companies. Additionally, Stable Audio was featured on TIMEs list of the Best Inventions of 2023. For press inquiries, please contact us at press@stability.ai. For customer support, reach out to support@stability.ai.

Stability AI sparked the Generative AI revolution with the release of Stable Diffusion in August 2022, marking our position as a global leader in the field. We develop cutting-edge open models in image, video, 3D, and audio, as well as professional applications designed for enterprise-grade visual media creation. Our models have garnered immense popularity among creators, developers and enterprises alike, with over 260 million downloads and counting. Stability AI has been recognized as one of Fortunes 50 AI Innovators and as one of Times Most Influential Companies. Additionally, Stable Audio was featured on TIMEs list of the Best Inventions of 2023. For press inquiries, please contact us at press@stability.ai. For customer support, reach out to support@stability.ai.

Greycroft is a seed-to-growth venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs who are striving to build category-defining companies across intelligent consumer and enterprise applications, AI infrastructure, sustainability, and consumer products. Greycroft has raised over $3 billion in capital and has made over 400 investments since inception.

The 23 Fund is a venture capital firm that backs extraordinary entrepreneurs from the Stanford Graduate School of Business MBA Class of 2023. The fund aims to add value by being the most hands-on investor to every GSB founder. We leverage our class strength and breadth of experience through a network of Limited Partners and a dedicated Operations Team for portfolio support.

Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, bio/healthcare, crypto, fintech and games spaces. a16z is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial company building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. The firm is led by general partners, many of whom are former founders/operators, CEOs, or CTOs of successful technology companies, and who have domain expertise ranging from biology to crypto to distributed systems to security to marketplaces to financial services. We aim to connect entrepreneurs, investors, executives, engineers, academics, industry experts, and others in the technology ecosystem. We have built a network of experts including technical and executive talent; top media and marketing resources; Fortune 500/Global 2000 companies; as well as other technology decision makers, influencers, and key opinion leaders. a16z uses this network as part of our commitment to help our portfolio companies grow their business, so our operating teams provide entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights across the entire spectrum of company building. https://a16z.com/portfolio/ https://a16z.com/podcasts/ https://a16z.com/videos/ http://a16z.com/subscribe See Disclosures: https://a16z.com/disclosures/

Bowery Capital is an early-stage venture capital investor focused exclusively on founders looking to modernize business through technology. As more and more internet natives drive purchasing decisions, Bowery Capital believes that roughly $468B will change hands over the next 10 years as old products are replaced with new. In addition, the firm believes that the key ingredient to early success is revenue and customer growth, and as such provides various products and services through their Acceleration Team that portfolio companies can leverage to develop a strong early base. This combination of a focused thesis and support system are the cornerstones of Bowery Capitals investment approach.