Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City. IA is managing $475M across four funds, and is currently investing out of its $160M fourth fund. Roger previously was an active angel investor through IA Capital Partners, a seed-stage investment firm focused on digital media and financial technology. Earlier in his career, Roger served as CEO of DB Advisors, was Global co-head of Deutsche Bank’s Strategic Equity Transactions Group, and was an investment banker at Citibank in derivatives, capital structuring and Mergers & Acquisitions.

Roger currently sits on the Boards of Ethyca, Gospel Technology, Mighty, Octane and TransferWise, and until recently was lead investor in and Board Member of The Trade Desk (NASDAQ: TTD) and among the first investors in Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG). He is also a Board observer of MemSQL, Robin Healthcare and Signifyd. Formerly, he served on the boards of Buddy Media (sold to Salesforce for $800M), Recorded Future (sold to Insight Ventures for $780M) and Simple Finance (sold to BBVA for $120M). Roger sits on the External Advisory Board of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, as well as serving as a member of the Data & Society Council of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University.  

Roger holds an MBA in Finance, Accounting and Management from Columbia Business School and a BBA in Finance, Economics and Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan. Roger blogs at https://medium.com/@infoarbitrage and tweets at @infoarbitrage. But most importantly, Roger's two sons, Andrew and Ethan, are both University of Michigan Wolverines, keeping the family tradition alive.

Eric Paley is a Partner at Founder Collective, a seed-stage venture capital fund. Eric led Founder Collective's investments into numerous companies including Uber, Cruise Automation, Makerbot, Embark, Airtable, Integral Ad Science, and The TradeDesk (Nasdaq: TTD). Previously, Eric founded Brontes Technologies, a 3D imaging company, which was acquired by 3M. Eric has been named to the Forbes Midas List of top venture capitalists for the past four years, and in 2018 and 2019 was also the top-ranked seed investor on the list. Eric has served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School and is a frequent contributor to Techcrunch.

SF-based rock-n-roll outfit Effie Zilch and the Houseband is a collaboration between TV/Sync songwriter Effie Zilch (MTV, Fox Searchlight) and Grammy-award winning musician and producer Steve Wyreman (Leon Bridges, Jay-Z, Richard Ashcroft).

Amanda Outerbridge joined HarbourVest’s primary partnership team in Boston in 2000 and focuses on US partnership investments. She transferred to the London office in 2007, where she evaluated and monitored European venture capital and buyout partnership investments. She also spent two years in HarbourVest’s Hong Kong office, where she concentrated on partnership investments in Asia Pacific and emerging markets. Her previous experience includes internships with XL Capital Ltd and the Bank of Bermuda. She received a BS (summa cum laude) in Business Administration from Babson College in 2000.

Mel has been investing in private equity for over 20 years and is also a seasoned entrepreneur.

Before co-founding TrueBridge with long-time friend Edwin Poston, Mel co-founded UNC Management Company (UNCMC), where he worked closely with the President/CIO to manage over $2 billion of endowment capital for the University of North Carolina, along with other North Carolina-based institutions. As part of the senior management team, Mel had primary portfolio management responsibility for all illiquid asset classes, including UNCMC’s venture portfolio. During his time at UNCMC, Mel formed strong ties with some of the industry’s top-performing managers, which he has continued to develop at TrueBridge.

Prior to UNCMC, Mel helped co-found two venture-backed companies. He also spent time as an entrepreneur-in-residence with Commonwealth Capital Ventures in Boston.

Throughout his career, Mel has served on the advisory boards of several private capital partnerships. He has also spoken at a number of global private equity conferences and appears frequently as a guest lecturer at UNC and Duke University. In 2012, he was named an Honorary Kauffman Fellow by the Center for Venture Education, in appreciation of TrueBridge’s contribution and commitment to the Kauffman Fellows Program.

Early in his post-graduate career, Mel worked as a manager with both the General Electric Capital Company and the General Electric Corporate Audit Staff.

Mel received his MBA from Harvard University and his BA with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.