Upfront Summit 2026
Upfront Summit 2026
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Aydin Senkut

Aydin Senkut

An original super angel turned multi-stage investor, Aydin has been named on the Forbes Midas List for the past nine years (2014-2022) as well as the New York Times Top 20 Venture Capitalists list for four consecutive years (2016-2019). Before starting Felicis, he was the first product manager at Google and helped launch their first ten international sites. He received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with Honors from Boston University, an MBA in Marketing from the Wharton School, and a master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Aydin currently sits on the Graduate Board of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Lior Susan

Lior Susan

Lior is an investor, entrepreneur, and the Founder and Managing Partner of Eclipse, a venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with entrepreneurs rearchitecting the industries that are critical to people’s lives and national economies. He is passionate about building groundbreaking technology companies. During his time at Flex, a multinational manufacturing leader — where he led the hardware investment platform, Lab IX — Lior witnessed firsthand the headwinds physical industries were facing, in addition to inefficiencies and eroding of competitive advantage these negative forces were causing. Convinced that digital transformation would strengthen physical industries and support both economic and national security, Lior began to build Eclipse in late 2014. An unlikely venture capitalist, Lior grew up on a kibbutz and spent many years in the Special Forces of the Israeli military. A relentless optimist with a passion for company building, Lior believes that the world needs a New Economy and wants to help the best entrepreneurs build it.

Dana Settle

Dana Settle

Dana Settle is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Greycroft. As a member of Greycroft’s management committee, she is responsible for the firm’s operations, investment strategy, and vision. Dana is on the investment committee for all Greycroft funds and has been involved in all phases of Greycroft’s growth. Dana’s active investments include Acorns, Anine Bing, Avaline, Citizen, Goop, HamsaPay, Happiest Baby, Mayk.it, Merit Beauty, MNTN, Rembrand, Seed Health, Stability.ai, Thrive Market, and Versed. Her notable exits include Bumble (IPO), Maker Studios (acquired by Disney), Pulse (acquired by LinkedIn), The RealReal (IPO), Trunk Club (acquired by Nordstrom), and WideOrbit (interest sold to company management). Dana is a Board Director to IMAX Corporation and she is a founding member of the non-profit Baby2Baby and the female mentorship collective, All Raise. Prior to Greycroft, Dana spent several years as a venture capitalist and advisor to startups in the Bay Area, including six years at Mayfield, and investment banking at Lehman Brothers. Dana holds a BA in Finance and International Studies from the University of Washington and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Mark Suster

Mark Suster

Mark Suster has been a Managing Partner at Upfront since 2007, where he has led notable investments in companies including Invoca, Density, Nanit, and Maker Studios (acquired by Disney). He previously was the founder & CEO of two successful enterprise software companies, the most recent of which was sold to Salesforce.com where Mark became VP, Products. Prior to being a founder, Mark was a software developer at Accenture where he lived and worked in Europe, Japan and the U.S. Mark is a graduate of UCSD and has an MBA from the University of Chicago.

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