Join us for an evening of insight and connection as we bring together leading voices in venture capital for a panel discussion and networking reception. Artificial intelligence is quietly rewriting how venture capital firms operate, reshaping workflows that have remained largely unchanged for decades. This program brings together experts to examine AI’s impact across the venture lifecycle — from sourcing and evaluating investee projects, to managing LP relations, and to streamlining the day-to-day operations that keep a fund running efficiently. Following the panel, guests are invited to a networking reception to connect with VCs and operators shaping the future of the industry.
About the Speakers
Speaker
Patrick Chun
Patrick Chun is a Founding and Managing Partner of Juxtapose, one of the country’s largest venture funds focused exclusively on de novo company creation. As a Managing Partner, Patrick is active across the firm’s key pillars, working closely with the fund’s leaders in concept development, user research, and talent identification. Patrick also participates meaningfully with the portfolio and its CEOs, including involvement on the boards of early-stage and growth-stage companies. Prior to Juxtapose, Patrick spent a significant portion of his career investing and building businesses at the early stage, including as a Partner at Thrive Capital and Accretive. Earlier in his career, Patrick was a venture and growth equity investor at Bain Capital Ventures and Francisco Partners, and started at McKinsey & Company in New York City. Patrick has a BA from Harvard College, an MA from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Patrick is proud to be Korean-American and enjoys giving back to the Korean-American and Asian-American innovation community. He and his wife live in New York City with their two children.
Speaker
Melody Koh
Melody Koh is a Partner at NextView Ventures, based in its New York office. She has spent her entire career working with technology startups as an entrepreneur, operator, and investor.
Prior to joining NextView, Melody was Head of Product at Blue Apron. Melody joined Blue Apron as the first product hire post Series A and helped scale the business through hyper-growth (25x in 3.5 years) and to its IPO, building and leading teams across Product Management, Product Design, and Data Science. Previously, Melody was a Product Manager at Fab.com and the founder/CEO of a seed-funded wine subscription e-commerce service.
Melody holds an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School and a BS in Commerce with Distinction from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. After living in NYC for 13 years (across various fun neighborhoods in Manhattan & Brooklyn), she now lives in NJ suburbs with her husband and two young kids.
Moderator
David Kim
David Kim is a Vice President in Blackstone Innovations Investments (BXII). He is focused on executing the firm’s principal strategic investments in early-stage cybersecurity, enterprise software, financial technology and property technology companies. Since joining Blackstone, Mr. Kim has been involved in the firm’s investments in 7AI, Method Security, Norm Ai, Veza (acquired by ServiceNow), and Adaptive Shield (acquired by CrowdStrike), among others.
Prior to joining Blackstone in 2022, Mr. Kim worked at Vector Capital, where he was a member of the private equity investment team focused on making control-oriented investments in enterprise software companies. Earlier in his career, Mr. Kim was an analyst at Evercore in the technology M&A and private capital advisory teams.
Mr. Kim received a BS in Operations Research: Engineering Management Systems, summa cum laude, from Columbia University. He serves on the board of Korea Finance Society, the largest professional network of global Korean finance professionals.
