Growth Investor Summit

AlphaMarket 2026

AlphaMarket brings leading investors and entrepreneurs together to share insights at the cutting edge of growth and crossover investing.

October 21, 2026

New York City

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Agenda.

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Networking lunch & welcome reception

1:00 – 1:05 pm

Introductory remarks

1:05 – 1:35 pm

Fireside chat

Featuring Chris Daniels (BlackRock) and Steve Brotman (Alpha); moderated by Diane Brady (Fortune).

1:35 – 1:55 pm

Noma company presentation

Featuring Ralph Pisani (Noma) and Richard Seewald (Evolution).

1:55 – 2:25 pm

Growth equity panel

Featuring Laura Chau (Canaan), Thomas Krane (Insight), Elliott Robinson (Bessemer), and Jared Sleeper (Avenir); moderated by Bailey Lipschultz (Bloomberg).

2:25 – 2:50 pm

1:1 curated networking break

2:50 – 3:10 pm

Talkiatry company presentation

Featuring Robert Krayn (Talkiatry) and Michael Altman (Perceptive Advisors).

3:10 – 3:40 pm

Crossover panel

Featuring Joshua Plump (Citadel), Ben Spielman (Brevan Howard), and Joshua Diamant (LuminArx Capital); moderated by Chris Daniels (BlackRock).

3:40 – 4:05 pm

1:1 curated networking break

4:05 – 4:25 pm

Fireside chat

Featuring Jack Selby (Thiel Capital, Copper Sky Capital); moderated by Ron Insana (MS NOW).

4:25 – 4:45 pm

Rillet company presentation

Featuring Kristen Pascoe (Rillet), Aaron Neil (Battery).

4:45 – 5:00pm

Closing remarks

5:00 – 6:00 pm

Networking cocktail reception

with Award Winning Mentalist: Ben Nemzer

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Speakers at AlphaMarket 2026.

Jack Selby is Managing Director at Thiel Capital, Peter Thiel’s family office, and a founding member of the “PayPal Mafia,” and also leads Copper Sky Capital, his Arizona-based venture firm investing in technology companies outside the traditional California, New York, and Massachusetts hubs.

Jack Selby

Managing Partner

Christopher Daniels focuses on private and public equity and equity-linked financing activity as a member of the BlackRock Capital Markets team and leads the business in the Americas.

Chris Daniels

Head of Equity Capital Markets, Americas

Laura Chau is a General Partner at Canaan, an early-stage venture capital firm with approximately $5 billion under management, where she leads the firm’s consumer technology investment practice and serves on the boards of companies including Ollie, Clutch, nate, and Mosey.

Laura Chau

General Partner

Ron Insana is a veteran financial journalist with over four decades of experience as an anchor and contributor across The Financial News Network, CNBC, and NBC News. He currently serves as a contributor at MS NOW, where he analyzes the most pressing economic and market issues of the day.

Ron Insana

Senior Business Analyst

Diane Brady is Executive Editorial Director at Fortune, where she writes about the issues and leaders impacting the global business landscape. Diane Brady is Executive Editorial Director at Fortune, where she writes about the issues and leaders impacting the global business landscape.

Diane Brady

Executive Editorial Director

Elliott Robinson is a partner of the growth investment practice at Bessemer, where he focuses primarily on Cloud & AI investments. He co-authors Bessemer’s iconic 10 Laws of Cloud Computing, Cloud100 and the annual State of the Cloud Report.

Elliott Robinson

Partner

Richard Seewald founded Evolution in 2008 and leads investments in cybersecurity, enterprise software and data analytics. He has over three decades of investment, operational and entrepreneurial experience and is a member of the firm’s investment committee.

Richard Seewald

Founder and Managing Partner

Aaron is a vice president who focuses on early- and growth-stage B2B AI and software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies. He is currently involved in Battery’s investment in Aalyria, Coefficient, Cube, GenLogs, Hummingbird, Kojo, LEEO, Mews, Miter, Narvar, Onebrief, Rundoo, Second Front and seed investment Kovr.AI.

Aaron Neil

Vice President

Ben Spielman is a Portfolio Manager and Head of Discretionary ECM at Brevan Howard, a leading global alternative investment management platform, specializing in global macro and multi-strategy assets. Ben focuses on deploying long-duration capital at scale across the global ECM ecosystem with product and market expertise in IPOs, follow-ons, block trades and illiquid structured transactions.

Ben Spielman

Portfolio Manager, Head of Discretionary ECM

Josh Plump is a Portfolio Manager and the Head of Primary Strategies at Surveyor Capital, a fundamental equities business at Citadel. Josh joined Surveyor Capital in 2022, having previously spent 9 years at Bank of America in the Equity Capital Markets group.

Joshua Plump

Portfolio Manager, Primary Strategies

Thomas Krane is a Managing Director at Insight Partners and has been with the firm since 2012, when he joined as an Analyst. As an investor, his focus areas include cybersecurity, DevOps, IT automation and application software.

Thomas Krane

Managing Director

Robert Krayn is the Co-Founder and CEO of Talkiatry, one of the country’s fastest-growing mental health companies and a national in-network provider of psychiatry and therapy.

Robert Krayn

CEO

Kristen Pascoe is Head of Product at Rillet, where she leads the team building an Agentic ERP. She came to product the long way: a decade spanning Big 4 audit and controllership at a tech company, where she scaled the accounting org to a four-day close. She joined Rillet in 2022 to achieve a zero-day close and now focuses on the agentic core of the ERP, grounded in accounting first principles.

Kristen Pascoe

Head of Product

Michael Altman serves as the Head of Strategy for Perceptive’s investment team and is a member of the investment committees for Perceptive’s Credit Opportunities and Capital Solutions Funds. He is responsible for managing the firm’s investments in medical devices, diagnostics and health technology.

Michael Altman

Head of Strategy

Jared has been a Partner at Avenir since 2023, where he has partnered with Databricks, Cognition, Inspiren, Sigma, Air, Cyera, Kargo, Klaviyo and Sublime Security, among others. Before joining Avenir, Jared worked at Matrix and Coatue.

Jared Sleeper

Partner

Ralph Pisani is Chief Revenue Officer at Noma Security, where he leads global sales and revenue growth for the unified AI agent security platform. Ralph brings more than two decades of experience building and scaling revenue organizations at some of the most respected companies in cybersecurity.

Ralph Pisani

Chief Revenue Officer

Bailey Lipschultz is a Senior Reporter for Bloomberg News in New York, where he covers the stock market and helps lead the outlet’s equity capital markets coverage in the Americas.

Bailey Lipschultz

Senior Reporter

Joshua Diamant is a Partner and the Portfolio Manager for Capital Markets of LuminArx Capital Management. Prior to joining LuminArx, Josh was the Head Trader/Risk Manager at J. Goldman LP for a fiveperson consumer-dedicated team responsible for idea generation, structuring and hedging portfolio macro risk.

Joshua Diamant

Partner and Portfolio Manager, Capital Markets Solutions