Web 3, Crypto & NFTs
Fireside Chat: The future of Metaverse, Crypto, and NFTs
About This Talk
Speakers
Kirthiga Reddy brings over twenty years of experience leading technology-driven transformations to her role as President, Athena Technology II, the third in a series of all women-led SPACs bringing leading talent, access to capital and transaction experience to enable a market leader to access the equity capital markets. She is Founding Investment Partner of F7 seed fund. She serves on the Board of Directors for WeWork and Pear.
Previously, she was the first female Investing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers (SBIA), manager of the $100B+ SoftBank Vision Fund. At SBIA, Kirthiga focused on frontier, enterprise and health tech investments and managed a portfolio of $5B+. She served on the Board of Directors for Collective Health and Fungible. She also served on the Investment Committee for Emerge, global accelerator for brilliant companies led by underrepresented founders.
Prior to SBIA, she was Managing Director, Facebook India and South Asia for over six years, starting as their first employee in India. Her subsequent experiences at Facebook focused on emerging and high-growth markets including Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa and the Middle East. She has also served as Chair, Stanford Business School Management Board. Kirthiga holds an MBA from Stanford University, where she graduated with highest honors as an Arjay Miller Scholar, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a B.E. in Computer Science from Marathwada University, India. She has been recognized as Fortune India’s “Most Powerful Women” and as Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business” among other recognitions.
Previously, she was the first female Investing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers (SBIA), manager of the $100B+ SoftBank Vision Fund. At SBIA, Kirthiga focused on frontier, enterprise and health tech investments and managed a portfolio of $5B+. She served on the Board of Directors for Collective Health and Fungible. She also served on the Investment Committee for Emerge, global accelerator for brilliant companies led by underrepresented founders.
Prior to SBIA, she was Managing Director, Facebook India and South Asia for over six years, starting as their first employee in India. Her subsequent experiences at Facebook focused on emerging and high-growth markets including Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa and the Middle East. She has also served as Chair, Stanford Business School Management Board. Kirthiga holds an MBA from Stanford University, where she graduated with highest honors as an Arjay Miller Scholar, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a B.E. in Computer Science from Marathwada University, India. She has been recognized as Fortune India’s “Most Powerful Women” and as Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business” among other recognitions.
Randi has always believed that the world is better when technology and the arts come together. She left a successful career in Silicon Valley to star in Rock of Ages on Broadway. Since then, she has won three Tony awards and returned to her tech roots as an advisor/investor/ board member making her one of the only leaders in the Web3 space to have expertise and credibility in both groundbreaking technology and the creative arts.
She believes that the new breed of Web3 leaders are a new type of entrepreneur who is fearless in leading through both art and technology, and through her experience on the ground floor of Web2, as well as her expertise leading commercially successful artistic projects, she can’t wait to help grow the next crop of billion dollar brands that nurture both these worlds.
She believes that the new breed of Web3 leaders are a new type of entrepreneur who is fearless in leading through both art and technology, and through her experience on the ground floor of Web2, as well as her expertise leading commercially successful artistic projects, she can’t wait to help grow the next crop of billion dollar brands that nurture both these worlds.