Nikita Bier is Head of Product at X (formerly Twitter). He is a sought after advisor to consumer technology companies for his expertise in growth and virality. He previously founded Gas, a viral social network acquired by Discord. Before that, he founded TBH, a social network acquired by Meta. He currently advises the Solana Foundation and works as a venture partner to Lightspeed Ventures.

Aditi Maliwal is a General 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.