Entries by Karina Saravia-Butler

Alfred Chuang’s Startup Story

Alfred Chuang is a general partner at Race Capital. Recognized by Andreessen Horowitz as the Silicon Valley CEO’s CEO, Alfred Chuang is an accomplished entrepreneur and venture investor. Known for being the co-founder and CEO of BEA Systems, Alfred led BEA Systems to its acquisition by Oracle for $8.5 billion. Alfred’s notable awards include CIO […]

Sterling Anderson’s Startup Story

Sterling Anderson is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Aurora, the self-driving technology company. Before Aurora, Sterling led the autopilot programs at Tesla, worked as an engagement manager at McKinsey, co-founded a selective autonomous driving system company, and conducted research on shared-adaptive or autonomous control of passenger vehicles. Get inspired by the startup stories of […]

Nitin Gupta’s Startup Story

Nitin Gupta is the VP of Enterprise at MasterClass. Additionally, Nitin Gupta was also the Founder & CEO of Fairy, a home management platform for hotel-like cleaning service for homes. His experience includes leading one of the top strategic verticals at Box through IPO, leading a strategic enterprise team at Postmates through acquisition to Uber […]

Agustina Sartori’s Startup Story

Agustina Sartori Odizzio was the CEO and Founder of GlamST, an augmented reality (AR) technology company and Virtual Makeup Platform designed for beauty brands and retailers that allows women to try on makeup from anywhere, anytime. After GlamST’s acquisition by Ulta Beauty, Sartori now serves as the Director of AR Innovation at Ulta Beauty. In […]

Erika Hairston’s Startup Story

Erika Hairston is the co-founder & CEO of Edlyft, a YC backed tech startup helping create the next million computer science grads. At 24,  her and her co-founder became 2 of the youngest Black women to raise  over $1M in venture funding. After raising from investors such as  Kleiner Perkins, Village Global, and Jeff Weiner, […]

Juanita Lott’s Startup Story

Juanita Lott is the founder and former chair and CEO of Bridgestream Software, an enterprise software company that was sold to Oracle in 2007. Gartner recognized Bridgestream as one of the ‘cool vendors in security and privacy’, and Burton Group recognized Ms. Lott as ‘a pioneer’ in role based access management solutions. Get inspired by […]