About Zero to Billions - Unicorn tech founders best practices
Listen to best practices and lessons learned from unicorn founders. Techstars Alumni ($99B in valuations, 19+ graduate unicorns), is a private alumni founder community that has access to exclusive chats with unicorn founders. Our community is made of venture-backed Techstars alumni across industries and geographies.
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Kris Bliesner - CEO of Vega Cloud (orchestrated a $150 million+ Cloud exit)
Kris Bliesner, is the CEO of Vega Cloud, with 27 years of technology leadership as a CEO, CIO, and CTO. With a 15-year background in Public Cloud infrastructure, Kris orchestrated a $150 million+ Cloud exit, delivering an outstanding return for investors. Kris's leadership was instrumental in scaling 2nd Watch from $0 to $40 million in revenue with 250 employees.
At Vega Cloud, Kris is on a mission to offer industry-leading soluQons that provide users with more control over their cloud services, translaQng to significant Qme and cost savings.
Join our host Alejandro (https://www.techstarsalumni.org/host), co-host Ricardo and the Techstars alumni tech founder community at this Web Series conversation with our special guest Kris Bliesner
9 May 2024
Trevor Koverko - Founder of Sapien (Raised over $105M)
Trevor Koverko is prominent Web3 founder and NHL draft pick of the New York Rangers (2005). Trevor became an early leader in the blockchain community, funding first-generation blockchain projects like Ethereum, Block.One and Hive - the first public market blockchain company. In 2017, after predicting the mega-trend of financial securities migrating to the blockchain, Trevor founded Polymath a leading security token blockchain project, and later on, its layer 1 blockchain counterpart: Polymesh. Prior to Polymath, Trevor’s Oculus Rift-based project became one of the world's first VR exits. Trevor is also the founder of several now public Web3 companies: Tokens.com (https://tokens.com/) (COIN.NE (http://coin.ne/)), First Carbon (MKT.V) and Matador. In his spare time, Trevor enjoys jiu jitsu, chess, squash and is a proud sponsor of important charitable organizations like The Africa Inland Mission, Brynn Children Home of India and Capes For Kids.
Join our host Alejandro (https://www.techstarsalumni.org/host), co-host Ricardo and the Techstars alumni tech founder community at this Web Series conversation with our special guest Trevor Koverko
19 Apr 2024
Deborah Kilpatrick - Executive Chair and former CEO of Evidation Health
Deb Kilpatrick is the Executive Chair and former CEO of Evidation Health in San Mateo, California. The Evidation tech platform characterizes health in everyday life through the use of person-generated health data (PGHD) at scale, enabling individuals to participate in the world's most advanced decentralized research and personalized health programs. She began her medtech career at Guidant Corporation in multiple leadership roles that included Research Fellow, Director of R&D, and Director of New Ventures in its Vascular Intervention Division prior to its acquisition by Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX). Deb is currently on the board of directors of Sleep Number (NASDAQ: SNBR) as well as Sutter Health, a large not-for-profit integrated healthcare system in California. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and was the first woman to chair the advisory board for Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering, the largest producer of engineering degrees in the US. In 2021, Deb was named to the Digital Health Hall of Fame by the University of California-San Francisco, and she is the co-founder of Silicon Valley's annual MedtechVision Conference. Deb has been named to the San Francisco Business Times’ 100 Most Influential Women in Business, the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 100 Women of Influence, FierceMedicalDevice’s Top Women in Medtech, and Forbes 50 Over 50. She holds B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering, with a doctorate minor in applied mathematics and statistics, from Georgia Tech.
Join our host Alejandro (https://www.techstarsalumni.org/host), co-host Ricardo and the Techstars alumni tech founder community at this Web Series conversation with our special guest Deborah Kilpatrick
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