JUDGES

Paul Bricault is the Founder and Managing Partner of Amplify - which launched in 2012 and has funded 135 companies since its inception. He also has served as a Board Partner at Greycroft for the past 13 years. Previously, he was the founder of the Mailroom Fund, a joint venture between Accel Partners and William Morris Endeavor (where Paul worked for 14 years as EVP and head of Digital). 

Paul has been a member of the Board of Councillors at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California (USC) for the last decade. Also at USC, he is currently an Expert-In-Residence at the Greif Center for Entrepreneurship at USC Marshall School of Business. For each of the past 9 years, Paul has been named to the list of the 500 Most Influential People in Los Angeles by the LA Business Journal.  

Canadian by birth, Paul is an avid sports fan of the Toronto Blue Jays and Raptors and loves to cook and enjoy great food.

Britt Danneman is a Partner at Alpha Edison, where she focuses on investments in AI, fintech, and deep tech. She has worked with companies across asset classes to scale.

She helped launch Alpha Edison nine years ago, where they've invested in over 100 companies. Before joining Alpha Edison, she was an investor at Bain Capital Credit, focusing on middle market companies and distressed situations. There she worked with companies to structure opportunistic capital strategies through both debt and equity. With a passion for financial inclusion, she also worked in corporate development at the fintech startup Funding Circle.

Britt holds a BS from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School. While at HBS, she launched the women's entrepreneurship initiative called Series W. Britt is originally from Arizona, and you can typically find her outdoors—hiking with her dog Mookie, skiing, playing beach volleyball—or with her head in a book.

Gabe Greenbaum is a General Partner at B Capital focused on early-stage technology investments. At B Capital, he has invested in companies such as Gameplanner.ai (acquired by Airbnb), Orolabs.ai, Graymatter Robotics, Precision Neuro, BuildOps, Wildfire and When Insurance, among others.

Prior to joining B Capital, Gabe was a Partner with Pritzker Group Venture Capital, where he ran the firm’s west coast office. He has sat on numerous company boards and co-founded two companies, which were both acquired.

Gabe has been named to LA’s NextGen10, Chicago Crain’s Tech50 and TechWeek’s Tech100, and is a Foundation Board Trustee for the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA). He has earned a BA with honors from Washington University in St. Louis, an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a JD from Northwestern University School of Law.  He is based in Los Angeles.

Mark Mullen is Co-Founder of Bonfire Ventures, where he has spent the past two decades backing B2B founders, with a particular focus on vertical AI software and fintech. Before becoming an investor, Mark spent 20 years as an M&A investment banker focused on telecommunications and technology infrastructure. He became a senior partner at Daniels & Associates and, while living in Paris, London, and NYC, advised companies on transactions in 30 countries and helped lead the firm through its acquisition by RBC Capital Markets. Mark later stepped away from banking to serve as COO of the City of Los Angeles and Senior Advisor to the Mayor. Having invested through several major technology and capital markets shifts, he brings founders a steady perspective as everything around them changes. Mark believes seed investing is deeply personal. He wants to understand a founder’s story before the pitch and aims to be the person they call first when the stakes are highest.