WHEN FOUNDERS APPLY TO ALPHA, THEY AUTOMATICALLY APPLY TO
ELITE OPERATORS, ANGELS, AND PRE-SEED FUND MANAGERS

AJ Frank
Former Director of Product at Dropbox
#Product
Director of Product at Facebook
Akins Van Horne
VP of Product Management at ThreeFlow
#Product
Active angel investor and advisor
Alana Goyal
Previously Product at Samsara, Blend, AppDynamics
#Product
Founder & Managing Partner at Base Case Capital
Allison Barr Allen
Former COO at Fast
#Founder
Trail Run Capital
Allison Pickens
Former COO of Gainsight
#GTM
Founder & GP at The New Normal Fund
Amber Illig
Former Program Management Lead at Cruise
#Operations
GP at The Council Capital ($5m fund)
Andrea Funsten
Previously Founder & CEO at Loop Buildings
#Founder
Managing Partner at Basecamp Fund
Andrew Endicott
Co-Founder and President at Petal
#Founder
Co-Founder & GP at Gilgamesh Ventures ($9.5m fund)
Ankur Pansari
CEO at Purplemana
#Founder
GP at Divide by Zero, VP at Bling Capital
Ariana Poursartip
Previously Product Lead at Shopify, Petal, Square
#Product
Active angel investor
Badrul Farooqi
Previously Product at Figma
#Product
Active angel investor
Bruno Werneck de Almeida
BizDev Lead at Plaid
#GTM
Active angel investor
Charles Hudson
Previously Partner at Uncork Capital
#Operations
Managing Partner at Precursor Ventures
Charley Ma
Previously Head of Growth at Ramp, NYC GM @ Plaid
#GTM
Head of Growth at Alloy
Chris Fong
Previously BD & Partnerships & Sales at Google
#Community
Founder at Xoogler.co
Dan Rumennik
Previously Global Operations at Airbnb
#Product
Co-Founder & GP at AirAngels ($20m fund)
Cindy Bi
Previously Founder at A/Z and Hunting Camera Online
#Founder
General Partner at CapitalX
David Ongchoco
Growth & Marketing at Rutter
#GTM
Co-Founder at Comma Capital
Em Herrera
Founder at the Wiress
#Community
Investor at Night Ventures ($20m fund)
Enrique Allen
Former designer at Facebook, 500 Startups, and Venrock
#Product
Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Designer Fund ($40m fund)
Evan Moore
Previously Co-Founder of Doordash & VP Product at Opendoor
#Founder
Active angel investor
Garrett Goldberg
Previously Founder at GSquare Management
#Operations
Partner at Bee Partners
Hayden Simmons
Previously Bizdev / Strategy at Facebook
#GTM
GP at RaliCap ($30m fund)
Itamar Novick
Previously Chief Business Officer at Life360
#GTM
Managing Partner at Recursive Ventures
Ivan Kirigin
Previously Product at Lyft
#Product
Founder at Tango.vc ($4.7m fund)
Jenny Lefcourt
Co-Founder of All Raise
#Founder
General Partner at Freestyle Capital
Jesse Middleton
Previously Founding Team at WeWork; Co-Founder of WeWork Labs
#Operations
General Partner at Flybridge & The Community Fund
Josh Constine
Previously Senior Editor at TechCrunch
#Operations
Venture Partner & Head of Content at SignalFire
Joshua Schachter
Previously Engineering at Google & Yahoo
#Engineering
Venture Partner at U.P.Partners & active angel investor
Karine Hsu
Previously Growth at Verishop
#Product
Partner at Slope
Kelly Graziadei
Previously Director of Product Marketing at Facebook
#GTM
Founder & GP at F7 Ventures ($50m fund)
Kintan Brahmbhatt
Previously GM & Co-Founder of Amazon Podcasts
#Product
Co-Founder & CEO at Olto.com
Maia Bittner
Previously Co-Founder at Pinch (sold to Chime)
#Founder
Investment Partner at XFactor Ventures
Mitchell Friedman
Software Engineer at Hightouch
#Engineering
Active angel investor
Mahdi Raza
Previously Operations at Stytch & Robinhood
#Operations
Founding Partner at Exponent Founders Capital
Nick Abouzeid
Previously Growth at MainStreet & Product Hunt
#GTM
Growth Lead at Ramp
Nitesh Banta
Previously Co-Founder at Rough Draft Ventures
#Founder
Co-Founder & CEO at B12
Nonso Maduka
Product Lead at Plaid
#Product
Active angel investor
Paige Finn Doherty
Previously Syndicate Lead, Author at Seed to Harvest
#Operations
Founding General Partner at Behind Genius Ventures
Paul Klein IV
Previously Co-Founder & CTO at Stream Club
#Founder
Angel Investor at Hawk Hill Ventures
Rex Salisbury
Previously Fintech Partner at a16z
#Product
Founder & GP at Cambrian ($20m fund)
Rohini Pandhi
Previously Product Manager at Pubnub
#Product
Product Lead at Block
Rohit Sharma
Previously CTO at Ciena
#Operations
Partner at True Ventures
Sameed Musvee
Previously Sr Mgr Finance at Doordash
#Operations
Strategic Finance at Chime
Shankar Pasupathy
Previously Senior Director, AI & Data Engineering at NetApp
#Engineering
VP, Data Platform at Twilio
Somrat Niyogi
Previously VP Biz dev at Clari
#GTM
Head of BizDev at Gusto
Sophia Amoruso
Previously Founder @ Girlboss & Nasty Gal
#Founder
Founder & General Partner at Trust Fund
Sri Batchu
Previously Head of Growth at Instacart
#GTM
Head of Growth at Ramp
Sriram Krishnan
Previously Growth at Spotify & Tinder
#GTM
Investor at Kearny Jackson
Tim Chen
Previously Eng Leader at Grid.ai
#Engineering
GP at Essence VC
Tommy Leep
Previously Venture Team at AngelList
#Climate
Founding Partner at Jestream ($10m fund)
Turner Novak
Previously Investor at Gelt
#Operations
Founder at Banana Capital ($20m fund)
William Smith
Previously Product at WeWork
#Founder
Investor at Octave
Umesh Khanna
Product Manager at Middesk
#Product
Sequoia scout & active angel investor
Venky Karnam
Previously Eng Lead at Google
#Engineering
Active angel investor
Warren Shaeffer
Previously Co-Founder at Knowable (acq. by Medium) & Vidme (acq. by Giphy)
#Operations
Vice President at Medium
Wiz Abdulla
Previously Serial Founder at Hazel & Rise People
#Community
Co-Founder at Spacecadet ($15m fund)
Yasyf Mohamedali
Previously Co-Founder & CEO at Sym & Karuna Health
#Engineering
Engineer in Residence at Root Ventures
Zann Ali
Previously Founding Team at Fidelity Health
#Operations
Principal at 2048 Ventures
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