Baiju Bhatt is the Founder and CEO of Aetherflux. Baiju’s lifelong passion for space began in childhood, inspired by his father's work as a research scientist at Langley Research Center with NASA. At Stanford, he earned his B.S. in Physics and M.S. in Mathematics. He later co-founded Robinhood and served as co-CEO until November 2020. Today, Robinhood is a publicly-traded company with more than 20 million customers. In 2024, Baiju left his day-to-day role at Robinhood to focus on Aetherflux. He continues to serve on Robinhood’s Board of Directors.

Vanessa Larco co-founded Premise, a modern VC firm focused on agentic technology. She is focused on backing technical founders with an eye for consumer behavior change at the pre-seed and seed stages.

Prior to starting Premise, Vanessa was a General Partner at NEA from 2016 to 2025 where she focused on Enterprise SaaS and Consumer Internet investing. Vanessa has led investments in Kindred, Mejuri, Assembled, Greenlight, and others. She was also a board observer at Robinhood from 2017 through the IPO in 2021.

Prior to joining NEA, she held senior product management roles at Box, Twilio, Playdom (acq. Disney) and XBOX Kinect. She also started a mobile gaming company, Funloop which was acquired in 2013.

Vanessa holds a BS in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has been on the Board of Advisors for Georgia Tech’s College of Computing since 2019.