Prashant Shah

PubNub, the worlds biggest pub/sub network, is now a complete platform for building, managing, and monetizing real-time interactive experiences in any app, regardless of purpose, scale, or complexity. Whether you’re in the early development phase and want to get to market faster, or you are looking to increase engagement and accelerate monetization in your existing app, PubNub provides the economies of scale and expertise necessary to grow your business at any speed while freeing your developers to focus on core initiatives. Over 2000 companies worldwide, including Amazon, RingCentral, Gameloft, and DAZN, choose PubNub to scale faster, reduce risk, and accelerate growth.

Sure Ventures is a Silicon Valley based early stage venture capital firm investing in rapidly growing technology companies. The firm invests with a mission to enable peace of mind for all individuals and businesses. The main areas of focus are insurance, aging, mental health, wealth management and related sectors. We support entrepreneurs who strive for positive impact through safety and prosperity.

Seed stage venture capital fund that invests in disruptive technologies in B2B space. We look for entrepreneurs with deep technology background and unique insight. We are entrepreneur friendly and provide help beyond funding. We leverage our extensive network of relationships for the benefit of entrepreneurs and help them find key employees, partners and customers.

TiE LaunchPad is an accelerator begun by TiE for enterprise-focused startups. We accept up to 8 companies per batch for a 5 month program run at TiE Silicon Valley in Santa Clara, CA. The program is operated, mentored and funded by TiE Charter Members, some of the most accomplished tech executives in Silicon Valley. The core focus of the program is to help enterprise startups validate their business and prepare for their first round of funding. It is a unique combination of minds, money, and market access.

PubNub, the worlds biggest pub/sub network, is now a complete platform for building, managing, and monetizing real-time interactive experiences in any app, regardless of purpose, scale, or complexity. Whether you’re in the early development phase and want to get to market faster, or you are looking to increase engagement and accelerate monetization in your existing app, PubNub provides the economies of scale and expertise necessary to grow your business at any speed while freeing your developers to focus on core initiatives. Over 2000 companies worldwide, including Amazon, RingCentral, Gameloft, and DAZN, choose PubNub to scale faster, reduce risk, and accelerate growth.

INVESTING IN HIGH-PERFORMING, WOMEN-LED COMPANIES Currently investing from Astia Fund I - a $32M Series A/B fund that is sector and geography agnostic. For twenty years, Astia has carved a unique path to source, screen and invest in the top performing companies. Astia’s proprietary Expert Sift™ deal sourcing and screening process is a robust, data-driven methodology that uses best-in-class tools and wisdom-of-the-crowd techniques to eliminate bias. To successfully address the intersectionality of race and gender, Astia established a clear focus on investing in women of color. Grounded in deep domain expertise, exceptional investment performance, a belief in the value of women as leaders and a proprietary investment process, Astia invests via a family of funds. Throughout its twenty years, Astia has paved the way for investors to align human values with investment rigor. Understanding the fundamentals of change, Astia has built an institution to last. Through a variety of investment vehicles, Astia enables investment at all stages of private company growth. With an acute understanding of the unique challenges of high-growth, Astia ensures portfolio success. We are entrepreneur-centric and hands-on. By investing with Astia, Limited Partners expand their legacy of impact. Founded by tech pioneer Catherine Muther in 1998, Astia has never wavered from its fundamental commitment to level the investment playing field. Still today, less than 10 percent of VC investments are made into companies that include even one woman leader. We believe in investment as a force for change.