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Kyle Duffy
Kyle specializes in boosting early sales for Gradient portfolio companies, offering both tactical support in closing deals and support establishing effective sales processes. He also provides strategic insights on sales team expansion and market positioning, playing a pivotal role in scaling startups from zero to over $1M in revenue.
Previously, Kyle worked on Google’s enterprise sales team, where he helped large customers drive revenue across advertising products and tech platforms. Before that, Kyle led Sales and Customer Success teams at startups and big companies, including building a B2B SaaS startup from $0 to $18M in ARR. He holds a BS in Marketing from Boston College.
Away from work, Kyle is passionate about outdoor activities, often found running, biking, and skiing in Boulder, CO, with his wife and two sons.
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Udai Chopra
Udai Chopra
Udai joined FoW Partners as a legacy member of the Two Sigma Impact team. Prior to Two Sigma Impact, he served as an investment manager at Potentia Capital in Sydney, Australia. In this role, he was actively involved in transaction sourcing, due diligence, deal execution and portfolio management across software, technology and technology-enabled services businesses in Australia and New Zealand.
Udai previously worked at UBS AG in Sydney, Australia, as a director in the Investment Banking Division. He also has experience with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in international development, as well as with SGI Frontier Capital, in frontier markets investing.
Udai earned an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, an M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and both a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
Andrew Brackin
Andrew Brackin
Andrew Brackin is a Partner at Gradient Ventures. Prior to Gradient, Andrew co-founded Vial, a tech-enabled clinical trial platform that raised over $100M in venture capital from top-tier firms. Prior to Vial, he was part of the founding team and the Head of Growth at Newfront (YC W18), an AI-powered commercial insurance brokerage valued at $2.2BN, insuring numerous Fortune 500 companies. His career began at Jobr, a mobile job search business that Monster.com acquired in 2016.
Andrew was a 2013 recipient of the Thiel Fellowship. Outside of work, he loves reading about global affairs, working out at Barry’s Bootcamp, and enjoying live music.
Sam Campbell
Sam Campbell
Sam Campbell is an Investor at Samsung Next, where he is focused on AI, Health, and crypto. His recent investments include Saga, Science IO, Manifold, & LayerZero. Previously he was at Stanford Management Company where he supported portfolios with over 1,000+ venture capital portfolio companies across sectors and stage.
Lukas Huber
Lukas Huber
Based in Vienna, Lukas has been a part of Speedinvest since 2015. As the company’s deal flow manager, he is making sure that the thousands of leads which enter Speedinvest’s system every quarter are processed properly. His daily work with a host of data points also enables him to generate complex reports on our deal flow and beyond.
A Vienna native, Lukas also lived in Virginia Beach and London. He studied Economics and History and holds a Master’s degree in History with a special focus on global topics.
When not crunching numbers for Speedinvest, Lukas spends his time studying his favorite subject, the History of ideas and how the past shapes our understanding of the present and the future alike.
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