EP160 StepStone Group Partner Seyonne Kang Seyonne Kang is a Partner at StepStone Group. As of September 30, 2024, StepStone was responsible for approximately $682 billion of total capital, including $176 billion of assets under management. She is a member of the private equity team, focusing on venture capital and growth equity investments. Prior to StepStone, Ms. Kang was a partner with Greenspring Associates, a venture capital and growth equity investment firm that merged with StepStone in 2021. Before that, she spent seven years in investment management with a focus on private capital. Before moving into investment management, Ms. Kang spent about a decade on Wall Street in institutional equities where she served in a variety of functions, including software stock research and distribution of IPOs, follow-on offerings and convertible financings. Ms. Kang earned an AB with honors from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley. You can learn more about: 1. Evaluation framework for first-time fund managers 2. How emerging managers can build credibility with institutional LPs 3. Advice on building long-term LP relationships from scratch

Nikhil Sachdev joined Insight Partners in 2020 as a Managing Director. In his role, he works with companies in the software and fintech ecosystems starting at Series A and well beyond. He invests through a global lens, partnering with founders close to his homebase in California and stretching across the US into Europe, India, SE Asia and Latin America. He began his career advising technology companies at Goldman Sachs, where he was an investment banker focused on cloud and mobile. His start in the investing world came at private equity firm Bain Capital, where we took an operational lens to investing and partnering with companies. He developed a passion for how businesses can play a positive role in helping better the world. This passion led him to Harvard Business School, where he had a chance to spend his summer working with the founder of a Sequoia-backed startup, which sparked his interest in technology and inspired him to pursue a career in venture capital. After HBS, he joined Altimeter Capital, a long/short equity hedge fund that was scaling a venture capital practice. As a Partner at the firm, he led investments in multiple venture and growth stage private companies across the SaaS, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, Internet marketplace, gaming, and social media categories. At Insight, he has the privilege of working with founders and teams who imagine how technology can better the world and are actively building category-defining and enduring businesses. Silicon Valley is his home although he is traveling often. Topics:

• Key metrics to evaluate AI companies versus traditional SaaS
• The moats and defensibility of different AI companies
• Key patterns across successful AI companies

Mo Islam is a Partner at Threshold Ventures. He focused on enterprise and frontier technologies. He sits on the boards of Benepass, EdgeQ, Elementary Robotics, Freeform, OpsLevel, Yellowbrick Data, and several stealth companies. He has also been involved with Threshold's investments in Atomwise, Imagen, Mythic, and Upside Foods. Mo was on the technology team at In-Q-Tel, where he conducted technical diligence on behalf of the CIA. Mo also held engineering roles at Lockheed Martin, the National Science Foundation, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Mo is an author in a chapter addressing the disruption of employment by the rise of automation and artificial intelligence in Disrupting Unemployment: Reflection on a Sustainable, Middle-Class Economic Recovery. Mo graduated with a BS in electrical engineering, with interdisciplinary honors in international security studies, and an MBA from Stanford University.​ In 2018, Mo was named to Business Insider’s list of Silicon Valley biotech stars. He was also featured in the 2017 Forbes 30 under 30 Venture Capital list. Topics:

• Emerging trends in enterprise software and developer tools
• AI's transformative potential across industries
• Enterprise technology investment strategies