Harvard x MIT x Cambridge Alumni Founder in London
Join Harvard, MIT, and Cambridge alumni founders in London for a cross-university mixer and a panel with experienced founders and investors on how fundraising is evolving in the age of AI-native startups.
Event Agenda
6:00 – 6:30
Check-In and Networking
6:30 – 7:30
Opening Remark and Panel Discussion
7:30 — 9:00
Drinks and Networking
*There will be small dishes and bites passed around throughout the event.
Guest Speakers
Sitar Teli has been a VC since 2008, focusing on early-stage investments in consumer and B2B2C enablement in marketplaces, market networks and networked SaaS. Prior to Connect, she was with Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures, where she led their Series A round in SoundCloud. Sitar’s expertise is in products with network effects or community-led growth. Her investments include ai-coustics, Hopkins and Deepstash.
Eric Landau is the CEO & Co-Founder of Encord, the leading platforming for managing, curating and annotating AI data. Eric was the lead quantitative researcher on a global equity delta-one desk, putting thousands of models into production. Before Encord, he spent nearly a decade in high-frequency trading at DRW. He holds an S.M. in Applied Physics from Harvard University, M.S. in Electrical Engineering, and B.S. in Physics from Stanford University.
David Buxton is the co-founder of Harriet, a platform that helps enterprises bottle and share the best of the skills and AI capabilities they create. Before Harriet, he founded and ran Arachnys, an AML/KYC startup he grew across London, New York and Singapore over 11 years and sold in 2021. When he's not building, you'll find him flying planes, cold-water swimming, or reading spy novels.
Daniel Glazer is an American technology lawyer, strategic business advisor, and the Founding and Managing Partner of Wilson Sonsini's London office. Since the 2010 launch of the UK Government's Tech City initiative, Dan has advised high-growth UK/European technology and life sciences companies on raising capital in the US and UK/Europe, expanding their businesses into US markets, and connecting with investors, corporates, and advisors.
Panel Moderator
Andrew Shailer-Smith is a serial founder, experienced CFO, and co-lead of CAMentrepreneurs London, the society for University of Cambridge alumni in the entrepreneurship field.