Building for Today's Consumers

  • Tyler Griffin, Co-Founder & Managing Partner (Moderator)

    Tyler is a Co-Founder and a Manager Partner of Restive Ventures. Tyler has spent the last decade thinking about how to make money work better. He co-founded Prism Money, a consumer-focused bill payment product that allowed for instant and free payments to over 15,000 banks and billers, in 2012. Now owned by BillGo, Prism is America’s largest real-time payment network. Following Prism’s sale, Tyler became entrepreneur-in-residence for the Financial Solutions Lab, a partnership between JPMorgan Chase and CFSI. In this role, he mentored 16 companies focused on fintech solutions to improve Americans’ financial health. Prior to starting Prism, Tyler worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions group at JPMorgan’s and Citigroup’s Investment Banking offices in New York City. He also worked at a middle-market private equity fund and served on multiple boards of directors. Tyler received his BA from Northwestern University in 2005 and holds a commercial pilot certificate.

  • Anish Acharya, General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

    Anish Acharya is an entrepreneur and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. At a16z, he focuses on consumer investing, including AI-native products and companies that will help usher in a new era of abundance. Anish first joined the firm in 2019 with a focus on fintech, often investing in B2C technologies. He currently serves on the boards of Clutch, Deel, HappyRobot, Mosaic, Method, The Coterie, and Titan. He is also a board observer at Arc and Carbonated. Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, Anish founded and sold two consumer companies, successfully navigating multiple technology platform shifts. In 2014, Anish founded Snowball, a universal inbox for Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, SMS, and other mobile messaging clients to help consumers rethink how they communicate online. After Snowball was acquired by Credit Karma in 2015, he served as GM of Core Consumer and GM of Cards. He helped scale the U.S. Card to over 100 million members and nearly $1 billion in 2019 revenue. In 2008, Anish co-founded SocialDeck. As an “anywhere, anytime, anyone” social gaming company, SocialDeck enabled simultaneous game play across multiple mobile devices and social networks. The company was acquired by Google in 2010. At Google, Anish led various mobile product efforts and invested for Google Ventures.
    Anish graduated from the University of Waterloo and lives in the Bay Area with his family. He has a passion for music and mixes tracks in his spare time.

  • Matt Kerbel, Global Head of Brand Strategy, Turo

    Matt Kerbel is a leading voice in the fields of brand development and digital marketing. For nearly 20 years, he’s shepherded world class brands like Lyft, Call of Duty, Nature Valley, and countless others to infiltrate culture, cultivate community, drive desirability, and improve people's lives through remarkable products, services, and marketplaces. Today, he leads global brand strategy efforts for Turo, the world’s leading car sharing platform, and recently named one of Glassdoor’s top companies to work for in America. Turo operates in 5 countries and its marketplace boasts nearly 400,000 cars worldwide. A LinkedIn Top Voice, Kerbel was recognized in 2024 by the Wall Street Journal as a Marketer To Watch. Moreover, he is an Adweek Executive Mentor, and sits on the Adweek Innovators Council, dedicated to innovative marketing methods, technologies, channels, and progressing the marketing industry forward. Matt guest lectures at colleges across the country on consumer behavior and brand management, advises multiple early-stage challenger brands, and is working on a disruptive side hustle dedicated to supercharging the most valuable skills we have — our soft skills. Residing in the Bay Area, Kerbel is a proud native of Canada, father, leader, coach, and friend, and loves nothing more than helping others and traveling the globe with his family.

  • Dan Preston, CEO & Co-founder, Stand

    Dan is the CEO and co-founder of Stand, a company dedicated to insuring the world’s climate-impacted properties, with a mission to drive resilience globally. Previously, he was the CEO of Metromile (formerly NASDAQ: MILE), where he led the development of the first usage-based auto insurance model powered by real-time sensor data. He holds degrees in Computer Science from Brandeis and Stanford, with published research in astrophysics, computer vision, and remote sensing.