Delian Asparouhov is a partner at Founders Fund and co-founder and President of Varda Space Industries, which is building the world's first space factories. Before joining Founders Fund, he was a principal at Khosla Ventures, head of growth at Teespring, and founder of a healthcare company called Nightingale. Delian is Bulgarian, attended MIT, and likes to kitesurf and play soccer.

Phin is the co-founder and managing partner of The General Partnership (TheGP), a venture capital firm that’s redefining what partnership means for founders and investors through sweat equity. Before starting The GP with Dan Portillo in 2022, Phin spent over a decade at First Round Capital, starting off as a summer associate and leaving as a managing partner. While at First Round, Phin came to understand venture capital as a product that founders buy with their equity and turned that idea into a cultural mandate of service to founders. This helped define the firm’s brand and inspired community programs like Angel Track and Dorm Room Fund, which he co-founded and led. Throughout his tenure there, he was responsible for over 60 investments, partnering with companies like Notion, Clover, Gauntlet, Clay, and Persona.

Before First Round, Phin was an early employee at AND 1 Basketball and served as the Creative Director for Footwear. A basketball player during his time at Haverford College, Phin has since maintained his addiction to sneakers, love of hip-hop, and a decent trash-talk vocabulary. Phin lives in San Francisco with his wife, Carrie, and daughter, Etta.

Dayna Grayson is Co-founder & Managing Partner of Construct Capital, an early stage venture firm that invests behind the accelerating changes in foundational industries that together make up half our economy’s GDP are failing to meet customer expectations. Some of their investments across the manufacturing to supply chain to mobility and defense spaces include Hadrian, Copia, Veho, Atomic Machines, and Vammo. Dayna was one of the first venture capitalists to turn her attention to transforming industrial sectors of our economy over a decade ago. During her time as a partner at NEA from 2012-2020, she was the lead investor from the earliest stages and was on the board of companies including Desktop Metal, Tulip, Onshape (acqd by PTC), NeuralMagic (acqd by Redhat), Guideline, and Framebridge (acqd by Graham Holdings) among others.

Dayna started her career in product development and led design at Blackbaud [NASDAQ: BLKB], the leading global provider of software to nonprofit organizations, as the company grew to over $130 million in revenue and completed a successful public offering and was an investor at North Bridge Venture Partners from 2007-2012.

She is a graduate of the University of Virginia (Systems Engineering) where she’s on the board of the Engineering Foundation and Harvard Business School, where she serves as a venture partner.

Vanessa Larco joined NEA as a partner in 2016 and spent eight years focused on opportunities in enterprise and consumer applications. She left the firm in 2025 to pursue an entrepreneurial path (to be announced!) and is passionate about well-designed products and services that enable people to be more productive and fulfilled in their daily lives. Vanessa has led investments in Assembled, Kindred, Rewind AI, Cleo, Evernow, Rocket.Chat, Mejuri, EvidentID, Greenlight Card, and Lily AI. She is also a board observer at Forethought AI, Safebase, Orby AI, and Granica AI. She was a board observer at Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) until its IPO in 2021. Prior to Venture, she led Product Teams at Box, Twilio, Disney and Xbox.

Aditi Maliwal is a partner at Upfront Ventures, investing in early stage companies across financial technology and enterprise software. Aditi partners with founders at their earliest stages of inception and supports them throughout the stages of company building. While at Upfront, she has partnered deeply in this way with Arcade, Clair, Renew, Stem, WriterAI and ZestAI amongst others.

Before joining Upfront, Aditi was at Google, first on the Corporate Development team leading acquisitions across various sectors including AI, commerce and fintech, and then on the Next Billion Users team building products for users in emerging markets. Prior to Google she worked in early stage venture at Crosslink Capital where she invested in Chime, BetterUp, and PowerToFly among other companies. She began her career in investment banking at Deutsche Bank, in the technology banking group. She has a B.A. from Stanford University. She has lived between Mumbai, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Singapore and San Francisco.