Builders & creators: A fireside chat with Brianne Kimmel & Michele Catasta

​Join Worklife for a special night for builders & creators!

​-Live music by Brooklyn’s own Christian Rougeau.

-A special discussion between Worklife founder Brianne Kimmel and Replit President and Head of AI Michele Catasta in partnership with Contra.

​-Great drinks, cool crowd, and the best views of NYC.

Event flow:
• 5:15 to 5:45pm: Arrivals
• 5:45 to 6:00pm: Worklife + Contra intro
• 6:15 to 6:45pm: Panel + Q&A
• 6:45 to 7:30pm: DJ, music + mingling

​Michele Catasta (President & Head of AI, Replit)

​Michele Catasta is the President and Head of AI at Replit, where he built the company's AI team from scratch and architected the Replit Agent. A computer scientist with a Ph.D. from EPFL, he previously served as the Head of Applied Research at Google X and Google Labs.

​With over 50 million users, Replit has enabled a future where anyone can be a founder with no coding experience.

​Valued at 9 billion following a Series D funding round, it's a leader in paving the way for AI driven productivity.

​Brianne Kimmel — Worklife Ventures

​Brianne Kimmel is a leading venture capitalist and founder of Worklife Ventures. Brianne writes the first check to technical founders and helps with GTM. She is an early investor in Deel, Supabase, Hex, WorkOS, and 50+ startups.

​In 2019, Brianne founded Worklife with the belief that in the future anyone can be a founder. Worklife is backed by the founders of Twitch, Spotify, Cameo, and YouTube.

​Whether that’s a podcast, a food truck, or finding new ways to make money for your passions online, Brianne believes the future belongs to self-made, self-taught creatives.

​To date, her $12M debut investment fund is valued at $60B and she has backed 9 unicorns in her first fund alone.

​Brianne writes a weekly newsletter on Substack (brianne.substack.com), you can follow her on X (@briannekimmel). 


Margarita Di Monte - Worklife Ventures

Margarita Di Monte joined Worklife Ventures this year, most recently coming from The Walt Disney Company. At Disney she worked across product operation asset management and market roll out for Disney+ across 30+ territories in EMEA, APAC, LATAM and Canada while managing a $300M content portfolio and $25M asset management expense pipeline.

​Having also spent time in production and development at studios within Disney & NBC Universal, Margarita is passionate about building ideas from concept to full fledged products disseminating into millions of people’s homes, park experiences and more.

​Coupled with CAA agency experience and working across shows like Tell Me Lies, Only Murders In the Building, Shogun, Abbot Elementary, 9-1-1, Chicago Med, Fire & PD and more, Margarita looks for opportunities to connect the right creators to the right operators to build at scale while simultaneously building the right operational, distribution & retention methodology for teams to sustain the life of any product around the world.

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