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The investor behind Ramp and Cognition

Zach Frankel backed some of tech’s most valuable startups from the very start, and almost no one outside Silicon Valley’s inner circle knows his name. Founders say he’s more than an investor, and the people around him work to keep his profile low.

The person behind Anthropic’s CEO

Cami Clark has no title at Anthropic, but she’s one of the people Dario Amodei leans on most, and she helped bring one of its earliest investors to the table. Before that, she launched startups of her own.

Sequoia’s new leaders go on offense

Alfred Lin and Pat Grady took over at Sequoia Capital after a sudden leadership change, and they’ve since sent the firm’s partners out in force to win over AI founders, even at prices Sequoia once would have found too rich.

Palo Alto’s CEO on a buying spree

Nikesh Arora has bought dozens of companies at Palo Alto Networks, and with AI reshaping cyber threats he’s moving faster than ever. A couple of the bigger targets he went after never came together.

Nvidia’s go-to dealmaker

Nico Caprez was a pro ski racer before he joined Nvidia less than three years ago. Today he’s the executive its partners call first, and he’s also married to Jensen Huang’s daughter, Madison.

Influence in tech doesn’t always come with a title. Who holds it, and how they got there, will shape what gets built and who gets funded.

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