Richard and Sandi Conniff Leaders in Business Ethics Speaker Series
The Richard and Sandi Conniff Leaders in Business Ethics Speakers Series in conjunction
with The Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship
is proud to present:
"Overcoming Bias in Venture Pitching"
Monday, February 22, 2021
6:00 pm to 7:15 pm
Featuring:
Manan Mehta
Manan Mehta is a Founding Partner of Unshackled Ventures, a fund for immigrant-founded
companies. Prior to Unshackled Ventures, Manan ran marketing for ed-tech startup Kno
(acq. by Intel 2013) that raised over $90M of funding from top VCs including a16z
and First Round Capital. Before Kno, Manan was an Investment Banker with $3B in transactions,
including the $1.9B acquisition of Skype. Manan is a 1st generation American and received
a double major at UCLA.
Larissa Russell
Larissa Russell is the CEO and cofounder of Pod Foods, a full-service b2b marketplace
connecting grocery retailers and brands. We are disrupting the $200bil+ industry of
wholesale grocery distribution by enabling intelligent retail with logistics, visibility
and data throughout the grocery supply chain. Russell and her cofounder Fiona Lee
experienced the challenges of wholesale distribution first hand when they started
a cookie company called Green Pea Cookie, which produced cookies out of peas. They
were named Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Retail and eCommerce in 2020.
Monisha Varadan
Monisha wears multiple hats. She works full time at Google, building partnerships
for products like Chrome, News and Search. She is a Founding Partner of Zephyr Ventures,
which invests in growth businesses. She is also a lecturer and Entrepreneur-in-Residence
at INSEAD, where she completed her MBA. She has co-authored articles, including one
on bias within the VC industry published in Harvard Business Review.
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