The Venture Capital Perspective: Retail’s Future

Feb 28, 2018

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Anna Palmer is cofounder of Wondermile. Prior to Wondermile Anna was co-founder and CEO of Fashion Project, where she scaled the company to millions in revenue, led national brand partnerships and raised multiple rounds of venture funding. With the sale of Fashion Project in 2016, Anna took over as SVP of marketing for the acquirer and later was promoted to Chief Operating Officer. Most recently, Anna is a co-founder and Investing Partner of XFactor Ventures, a seed fund investing in the next wave of billion dollar female founders, where she focuses on retail innovation, consumer goods and marketplace businesses. She holds a J.D from Harvard Law School, graduating in 2011. Kobie is a partner at Upfront Ventures, the largest and longest-running venture firm in Southern California. He joined the firm in 2016 and leads investments including TheWaveVR, Cordial, Token, The Mighty and Nexkey. Kobie has deep experience in SaaS businesses, marketing technologies, and emerging technologies including VR and AR (he was an early personal investor in Oculus.) Kobie joined Upfront from Accel, where he was involved in investments including Campaign Monitor, UserTesting, AdRoll, EmergentVR and Invoca. Prior to Accel, Kobie was the Chief Marketing Officer at REVOLVE, one of the largest global fashion ecommerce players based in Los Angeles. Earlier in his career, Kobie helped found OpenView Venture Partners and was an investor at Insight Venture Partners where he sourced notable early investments in Exact Target (acquired by Salesforce for $2.5B) and Instructure (NYSE: INST.) Kobie received an AB in Economics from Harvard University. Hans Tung joined GGV Capital in 2013 as a managing partner to focus on consumer mobile internet and cross-border ecommerce in China and the U.S. Hans led GGV’s investment and serves on the boards of Wish, a fast growing cross border mobile commerce marketplace; Xiaohongshu, a leading active social community and recommendation app for cross-border shopping in China; Poshmark, a simple and fun way to buy and sell fashion; GrubMarket, a marketplace for local farm goods; and OfferUp, a place for consumers to buy and sell goods locally. He has invested in mobile social communication companies such as musical.ly, a highly popular video social network for creating, sharing and discovering short videos; Slack, which brings all your communication together in one place; Bustle, an online community providing a fresh spin on information and all subjects; Wheelwell, a market network for automotive parts and services,Peloton, a fitness technology platform and community, and Curse, a social communication platform for gamers acquired by Twitch. Hans is a personal investor in leading Indian e-commerce companies Flipkart and Snapdeal. He's also actively involved with GGV portfolio companies Airbnb, Flipboard, DraftKings, and Yodo1. Hans has been ranked as a top VC on the Forbes Midas list since 2013 and was recognized by The Founder and CBN News magazines in the past as a Top 10 most entrepreneur-friendly VC in China. Tim leads consumer technology investments at Mayfield focusing on next-gen Commerce & Marketplaces, Communities, Health & Wellness and Digital Media, and has been named to the Forbes Midas List and the AlwaysOn Power Players of top investors, as well as receiving the Special Achievement award from the Gamification Summit for his work in leveraging game design thinking. Tim has led early stage investments in Iridigm, Playdom, ngmoco, Basis, AdChina, and Moat, creating more than $2.6B in total exit value. His current portfolio includes Grove Collaborative, Massdrop, Ript Labs, Classpass, HealthTap, TRIPP, Next Entertainment, Pillow, Lantern and 3Drobotics. Tim holds an MBA with honors from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and MSEE/BSEE from the University of Michigan. Tim is an accomplished musician who performer in three bands, and is passionate about leveraging technology with wisdom to boost consciousness and fitness across body, mind and spirit.

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