Daniela is dedicated to empowering early-stage startups by providing strategic insights, funding guidance, and hands-on mentorship. With a deep understanding of business development and scaling operations, she helps founders navigate the complexities of growing their businesses in highly competitive markets. Passionate about identifying disruptive startups with high growth potential, she works closely with them to refine their business models, develop scalable strategies, and secure the necessary resources to thrive. Her mission is to bridge the gap between visionary founders and the capital and networks they need to succeed. She is a hard-working, dynamic, and determined person who strongly believes in transparency, clarity, loyalty, and competence, and she has based her professional career on these values.

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Foghor spent the last decade launching and building businesses in the Southeast Asian startup space. He is an ex-founder of deeptech spin-off health tech companies, as a result of IP commercialisation with Universities and the research institute in Singapore. He is currently a Venture Partner with DNAnx where he uses his understanding of business models, startup strategies, ideation and validation to advise founders in readiness for fundraising. His priority is ensuring startups find product-market fit and attract the right type of investment partner for whatever stage they are in their journey to growth and scale.

Carnellia Ajasin is aserial tech entrepreneur, investor, and advisor. She co-founded FrequencyyCapital, a private equity firm investing in entertainment and media, and servesas the CEO of Futuryst, Inc., a tech innovation and sustainability venturestudio. At Frequencyy, she focuses on purpose-driven impact investments inalternative assets, while at Futuryst, she leads a distributed team inco-creating and scaling tech-enabled products that advance business andsustainability. Additionally, she is an Entrepreneur in Residence at GeorgiaTech Incubator, advising growth-stage companies and facilitating mentorship forstartups. Carnellia is also a venture capitalist through Portfolia, a women-ledVC fund focusing on technology, humanity, and sustainability.

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Ralph Morales III is an accomplished leader in the wearables and health tech space, with over 15 years of experience driving innovation and market growth. He has held pivotal roles at companies like Oura, where he led the development of healthcare solutions that generated significant revenue and expanded digital health capabilities. Ralph is a solution advocate for integrating digital biomarkers and real-time health insights to improve therapeutic outcomes and advance health span.

Carlo Casuga is a Vice President in the Life Science Startup Banking Practice at Silicon Valley Bank. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Carlo’s mission is to help pre-Series A Life Science founders with banking services to help them accelerate their businesses. He also serves as a relationship builder, connecting his clients to accelerators, influencers, service providers and legal channels they need to create the future of healthcare. Carlo joined SVB in 2008 as a service advisor and later served as a relationship advisor for the hardware and fintech teams. He switched to the Life Science team in 2020 and brought his years of client service experience to his clients to ensure they have the best care for their financial needs.

Joe joined Madrona in 2022, focusing on sourcing and evaluating new investment opportunities, particularly at the intersection of life and computer sciences. He also supports the growth and strategy of current portfolio companies. With a background in business development at Roche and Stratos Genomics, Joe has extensive experience in advancing DNA sequencing technologies. He also worked at NanoString and the W Fund, commercializing multi-omic technologies and investing in early-stage startups. Joe’s philosophy emphasizes doing hard things, learning daily, and embracing being wrong. Outside of work, he enjoys outdoor activities like climbing, skiing, running, and biking, and volunteers with the Washington Alpine Club. Joe holds a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Washington and graduated magna cum laude from the University of San Diego, where he also competed in track and field.