Global Conference 2021

Feb 23, 2021, 2:00 PM – Feb 25, 2021, 11:00 PM (UTC)

Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area

Nothing can replace human interaction, but the power of online allows us to bring the education, access, opportunities and inspiration of Startup Grind’s Global Conference to startups around the world. This year’s event is more accessible for startups globally than ever before. Join us and 15,000 others for conversation and collaboration around tech, startups, and the future of innovation.

Virtual event

About this event

OFFICIAL CONFERENCE PAGE: https://startupgrind.tech/conference/

A home for startups everywhere.

Now more accessible than ever before.

Nothing can replace human interaction, but the power of online allows us to bring the education, access, opportunities and inspiration of Startup Grind’s Global Conference to startups around the world. Our new virtual and choose-what-you-pay model makes this year’s event more accessible for startups globally than ever before. Join us for conversation and collaboration around tech, startups, and the future of innovation.

Grab your tickets today, invite a friend or a few. We'll see you soon! 

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Speakers

  • Stacey Abrams

    Fair Fight Action

    Board Chair

  • Biz Stone

    Twitter + Future Positive

    Co-founder

  • Tamar Yehoshua

    Slack

    Chief Product Officer

  • Geoff Ralston

    Y Combinator

    President

  • Jeff Lawson

    Twilio

    Founder + CEO

  • Michelle Zatlyn

    Cloudflare

    Co-founder, President + COO

  • Henry Ward

    Carta

    CEO

  • Benoit Dageville

    Snowflake

    Co-founder + President of Product

  • Lucy Liu

    Airwallex

    Co-founder + President

  • Parker Conrad

    Rippling

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Melissa Alvarado

    Chime

    CMO

  • Markus Villig

    Bolt

    Founder + CEO

  • Noah Kerner

    Acorns

    CEO

  • Hayley Barna

    First Round Capital, Birchbox

    Partner, Co-founder

  • Harry Stebbings

    The Twenty Minute VC

    Founder

  • Eren Bali

    Carbon Health

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Sriram Krishnan

    Andreessen Horowitz

    General Partner

  • Hernan Kazah

    Kaszek Ventures

    Co-founder + Managing Partner

  • Alda Leu Dennis

    Initialized Capital

    General Partner

  • George Arison

    Shift

    Co-Founder + Co-CEO

  • Alexi Robichaux

    BetterUp

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Claire Diaz-Ortiz

    Magma Partners

    Partner

  • Prakash Janakiraman

    Nextdoor

    Co-Founder + Chief Architect

  • Jean-Denis Greze

    Plaid

    Chief Technology Officer

  • Rebecca Kaden

    Union Square Ventures

    Partner

  • Paul Bassat

    Square Peg Capital

    Co-Founder & Partner

  • Alexa von Tobel

    LearnVest, Inspired Capital

    Founder + Managing Partner

  • Byron Deeter

    Bessemer Venture Partners

    Partner

  • KR Sridhar

    Bloom Energy

    CEO, Founder, Chairman

  • Tien Tzuo

    Zuora

    Founder + CEO

  • David Cohen

    Techstars

    Co-founder, Managing Partner + Board Member

  • Aviad Pinkovezky

    Hippo

    Chief Product Officer

  • Ali Parsa

    Babylon

    CEO + Founder

  • Sonja Gittens Ottley

    Asana

    Head of Diversity + Inclusion

  • Job van der Voort

    Remote

    CEO

  • Emily Melton

    Threshold

    Co-founder + Partner

  • Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau

    MIT Technology Review

    CEO + Publisher

  • Alvin Graylin

    HTC

    President of HTC, China

  • Gary Stewart

    Techstars New York City Accelerator

    Managing Director

  • Michele Romanow

    Clearbanc

    Co-founder + President

  • Kamran Elahian

    Global Innovation Catalyst

    Founder + Chairman

  • Maya Horgan Famodu

    Ingressive Capital

    Founder + MD

  • Russ Heddleston

    DocSend

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Laura Holliday

    Depop

    Marketing Expert

  • Shishir Mehrotra

    Coda

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Amandine Lobelle

    Paystack

    Head of Business Operations

  • Sujeet Kumar

    udaan

    Co-founder

  • Liana Douillet Guzmán

    Skillshare

    CMO

  • Brian Brackeen

    LIGHTSHIP CAPITAL

    General Partner

  • Stephen McIntyre

    Frontline Ventures

    Founding Partner

  • Áine Kerr

    Kinzen

    Co-Founder + COO

  • Anis Uzzaman

    Pegasus Tech Ventures

    General Partner + CEO

  • Allison Robinson

    The Mom Project

    Founder + CEO

  • Albrey Brown

    Airtable

    Diversity, Equity, + Inclusion

  • Mae Karwowski

    Obviously

    Founder + CEO

  • Javier Mata

    Yalochat

    Founder + CEO

  • Luke Anear

    SafetyCulture

    Founder + CEO

  • Ashley Brucker-Stepien

    Webflow

    VP, Marketing

  • Chris Giovanniello

    Menlo Micro

    Co-Founder + SVP, Products + Marketing

  • Shuo Wang

    Deel

    Co-Founder and CRO

  • Courtney McKlveen

    Convoy

    Group VP, Head of Sales

  • Christina Cacioppo

    Vanta

    Co-founder & CEO

  • Dan DeFrancesco

    Business Insider

    Associate Finance Editor

  • Aaron Jacobson

    New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

    Partner

  • Songe LaRon

    Squire

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Eric Rea

    Podium

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Rashmi Gopinath

    B Capital Group

    General Partner

  • Mike Radice

    Toptal

    Director of Recruiting

  • Tsune Shirota

    World Innovation Lab

    Partner

  • Sarah Shewey

    Happily

    Founder + CEO

  • Wayne Berger

    International Workplace Group (IWG)

    CEO of IWG Americas

  • Ian Gardiner

    Innovation Bay

    Co-founder

  • Blessing Abeng

    Ingressive for Good

    Director of Communications

  • Jason Williamson

    Oracle for Startups & Oracle for Research

    VP

  • Christina Galbato

    Christina Galbato LLC

    CEO

  • Stephen Hamm

    Author

  • Jaime Schmidt

    Schmidt's Naturals/Color Capital

    Founder, Investor + Author

  • Alec Wright

    OneValley

    Chief Innovation Officer

  • Jomaree Pinkard

    Hella Cocktail

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Vieje Piauwasdy

    Secfi

    Director of Equity Strategy

  • Andrew Lee

    Initialized Capital

    Partner

  • Christine Feng

    Blackstone

    Senior Managing Director

  • Jeffrey Fidelman

    Fidelman & Co.

    CEO

  • Kyle Lui

    DCM

    Partner

  • Derek Andersen

    Bevy / Startup Grind

    Co-founder & CEO

  • Alexa Hall

    Google

    Startup Program Manager, Google Cloud

  • Rajiv Nathan

    Startup Grind Chicago / Startup Hypeman

    Chapter Director / Founder

  • Hubert Palan

    Productboard

    Founder + CEO

  • Kristin Stoller

    Forbes

    Staff Writer, Careers

  • Randall LaVeau

    BOSS Capital Partners, BOSS Startup Science

    CRO Founder of BOSS Capital Partners + CEO BOSS Stratup Science

  • Madeline Ulivieri

    Startup Grind

    Global Community Manager

  • Lauren Kolodny

    Acrew Capital

    Founding Partner

  • Tyler Lessard

    Vidyard

    Chief Video Strategist

  • Kirsten Billhardt

    Dell Technologies

    Marketing Director

  • Josh Constine

    SignalFire

    Principal Investor

  • Heather Delaney

    Gallium Ventures

    Founder

  • Sergey Gonchar

    Locals.org

    Co-Founder

  • Tim Jackson

    Walking Ventures

    General Partner

  • Alex Wheldon

    Rho Business Banking aka "Rho"

    Co-Founder

  • Ha Nguyen

    Swimply

    CXO

  • Mckeever "Mac" Conwell

    RareBreed Ventures

    Founder & Managing Partner

  • Tyler Norwood

    Antler

    Partner

  • Lars Vestergaard

    Oracle for Startups EMEA

    Head of Market Connect

  • JD Weinstein

    Oracle for Startups

    VC Connect

  • Carly Coleman

    Toptal

    Director of Talent Success

  • Sonny Mayugba

    Swimply

    VP of Revenue

  • Darren Murph

    GitLab

    Head of Remote

  • Karen Page

    B Capital Group

    General Partner

  • Robert Ravanshenas

    Maven Ventures

    Senior Associate

  • Madhu Shalini Iyer

    Rocketship.vc

    Partner

  • Dov Moran

    Grove Ventures

    Managing partner Grove Ventures

  • Jordan Kong

    Atomic

    Principal

  • Ty Findley

    Ironspring Ventures

    Managing Partner

  • Marian Gazdik

    Startup Grind | IPM Growth

    Director | Partner

  • Mary Ann Azevedo

    TechCrunch

    Senior Reporter

  • Bharat Agarwal

    New Delhi

    Chapter Director

  • Yoonkee Sull

    Iconiq Capital

    Principal

  • David Preston

    PeopleSuite

    Founder + President

  • Lynn Anstett

    Stett Transportation

    Founder + CEO

  • Bob Tassone

    TAGeX Brands

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Michel Kripalani

    Oceanhouse Media

    CEO

  • Mandeep Patel

    ElecTrip

    Founder

  • Darrell Etherington

    TechCrunch

    Science Editor

  • Connie Loizos

    TechCrunch; StrictlyVC

    Silicon Valley Editor; Founder

  • Jason Pressman

    Shasta Ventures

    Managing Director

  • Chris Wang

    ThunderCore

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Phil Chen

    Race Capital

    General Partner

  • Pablo Lascurain

    Startup Grind

    Mexico Chapter Director

  • Mandela SH Dixon

    FounderGym

    Founder + CEO

  • Jameela Jackson

    Startup Grind

    Hollywood Chapter Director

  • Wale Ayeni

    IFC

    Acting Global Head, Disruptive Technologies + VC Investments

  • Fred Destin

    Stride.VC

    Founder

Organizers

  • James Gee

    Startup Grind

    Global Partnerships Manager

  • Derek Andersen

    Startup Grind

    Chapter Organizer

Global sponsors

Notion logo

Notion

Builder logo

Builder

Gold

Toptal logo

Toptal

Dell Technologies logo

Dell Technologies

Happily logo

Happily

Snowflake logo

Snowflake

.com powered by Verisign logo

.com powered by Verisign

American Express logo

American Express

Silver

Spaces logo

Spaces

Blackstone LaunchPad & Techstars logo

Blackstone LaunchPad & Techstars

Oracle for Startups logo

Oracle for Startups

Attest logo

Attest

Entrepreneurs' Organization logo

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Ramp logo

Ramp

Vidyard logo

Vidyard

Bronze

Remote logo

Remote

Webflow logo

Webflow

Comcast LIFT Labs logo

Comcast LIFT Labs

Henkel dx ventures logo

Henkel dx ventures

Deel logo

Deel

OneValley logo

OneValley

vcita logo

vcita

Vonage logo

Vonage

Vanta logo

Vanta

Sendbird logo

Sendbird

Balsamiq logo

Balsamiq

.TECH Domains logo

.TECH Domains

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Leadspicker

Mixpanel logo

Mixpanel

Electric logo

Electric

Government of Australia - Global Business & Talent Attraction Taskforce logo

Government of Australia - Global Business & Talent Attraction Taskforce

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43North

Pendo logo

Pendo

Partner

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