Maddie Peschong is a branding photographer and coach who is obsessed with teaching creative entrepreneurs how to build a profitable business by being themselves. Through coaching, digital products, and personal branding photos, she helps women discover their magic so they can stand out in a saturated market, confidently scale their income without trading more time for money, and do only work they love. She is the creator of the Rebrand group coaching program for brand photographers, host of the Take it Personally Podcast, and founder of the White Space Studio in Sioux Falls, SD, a place where creatives can design, dream, and collaborate while developing their own irresistible brands.

Einar Vollset is a YC-alum, former Cornell CS Professor, the co-founder of TinySeed (an early stage B2B SaaS investor), and the founder of Discretion Capital, a B2B SaaS focused M&A investment bank. He sold his first startup to Google in 2010, and exited his most recent in 2016.

Abhinaya is a principal at M25, focusing on Midwest-based pre-seed and seed-stage investments. She joined the fund in 2017 and spearheads the team's outbound efforts, along with leading deals and working with portfolio companies.

In addition to investing, Abhinaya brings the Midwest community together through various events she hosts or co-hosts, from 300-person events like ChiTechIRL to 5-person dinners. She actively runs a text group where 400+ people receive a weekly text about Chicago Tech events to attend.

With over 20 years of experience in product leadership, David is passionate about creating innovative and impactful solutions for learning, human capital management, and cloud-based platforms. He is currently the Product Leader for Udemy Business, the enterprise segment of the world's largest online learning marketplace, where he oversees the Or Success and the Instructor portfolio product roadmap, user experience, design, and go-to-market strategies for delivering AI-powered learning and teaching solutions to over 14,000 organizations worldwide.

David has a proven track record of leading high-performing product teams and driving product vision and strategy across various domains and industries. He was previously the SVP of Product at D2L, leading the product management, engineering, and design teams for the Brightspace learning platform through to IPO. He also held senior roles at Oracle, where he was the Chief Evangelist for Oracle Cloud Architecture and the VP of Product Management for Oracle Learn Cloud.

Additionally, he has extensive experience in the start-up ecosystem, as he founded The Batchery, an incubator-accelerator in Berkeley, CA, and co-founded IASV, a venture fund focused on early-stage investments.

Marty's path to esports traversed through film school at the University of Southern California (before they taught game design there), a career in advertising where he produced several Super Bowl commercials (including "Cat Herders"), a TV show for sports fans that he turned into his first startup (pioneering fan photo sharing on jumbotrons), and building the system of record for international drone racing, which caught the eye of esports organizers.

That led to the launch of LeagueOS, the all-in-one esports management system that handles everything from signups to streaming for the majority of high school esports leagues and collegiate esports programs in the country. Now his team has introduced LOS Portal, a new way for colleges to recruit student gamers with unprecedented access to season stats and safe messaging. Try searching over 600 college programs for games played, degrees offered, tuition, scholarships, and more at https://portal.leagueos.gg

Marty lives in Minneapolis where his two teen daughters are constantly keeping him guessing.