On this week's episode of Silicon Valley Impact we speak with Anshu Agarwal, General Partner at Converge; and Amar Flora, General Partner at Solaris Venture Partners. We talking about Scaling the Future: Where Veteran Operators Meet Multi-Agent AI.

Anshu has spent 20+ years founding, scaling, and exiting venture-backed B2B tech companies in Silicon Valley. She has helped build four startups as a founder or early executive—each acquired by public companies including Akamai, Juniper Networks, HP, and Citrix. In 2018, she co-founded Nimbella, a pioneer in serverless computing, and led it as CEO from ideation to acquisition by DigitalOcean in under three years. She later served as VP/GM of DigitalOcean’s Serverless & Kubernetes business. Across her exits, she was repeatedly recruited by acquirers to lead integration and revenue expansion. Anshu holds engineering degrees from IIT Roorkee and Rutgers, an MBA from Kellogg, and serves on the Board of the IIT Bay Area Association.

Amar brings global experience across banking, finance, technology, and international business expansion. He began his career in banking in Sydney, later working in telco/digital infrastructure and strategy for wealth management in New York. As Director of Finance and COO at the University of Sydney, he led international growth across energy, infrastructure, mining, and technology sectors, executing deals across Australia, the U.S., Canada, India, Singapore, and China. He founded and exited an EdTech startup in 2020 before co-founding Klaviss, a first-of-its-kind multi-AI-agent ecosystem for real estate, now with three patents pending. Amar studied Software Engineering, completed a postgraduate program at the University of Cambridge, and earned an Executive MBA from UNSW. He also mentors postgraduate students in strategy and global market expansion.

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On this week’s episode of Silicon Valley Impact, we speak with Kamal Hassan, Managing Partner at Loyal VC, and Baron Cannon, educator and angel investor with Sand Hill Angels.

Kamal is a Managing Partner at Loyal VC, a diversified evergreen venture fund that offers investors the flexibility to buy or sell units quarterly. Loyal invests early in top founders from three global networks and earns loyalty for preferred access to follow-on deals.

Kamal's 20-year career as an entrepreneurial CEO and 15 years as an angel investor inspired the creation of Loyal. He draws upon his experiences as a Global Director with the Founder Institute, former INSEAD Alumni Association President, consultant at Bain & Co., and engineer at IMAX. Kamal holds an INSEAD MBA and a degree in engineering physics from Queen’s University. He’s well-traveled, having visited over 100 countries, and speaks five languages.

Baron is a Silicon Valley–based educator-turned-investor with a rare blend of “on-the-ground” institutional operations and early-stage tech investing expertise. For over a decade, he’s taught entrepreneurship and economics at Saint Francis High School (a Catholic high school in Mountain View, CA), and led high-stakes programs including a summer-school operation with a seven-figure budget. Parallel to his instructional work, Baron has invested via Sand Hill Angels in Seed-to-Series A startups, with a particular eye for startups rewriting legacy, high-friction industries through data-driven, compliance-rich vertical software platforms.

Baron also brings a multi-generational stewardship lens to his work. He is the Managing Member of the Baron Family Fund, a single-family office, and he serves on the Investment Committee of the John Sheehy Company, a family enterprise founded in 1901. Most recently, he joined the Advisory Group for Santa Clara University’s new Social Impact MA program, helping shape an executive-level pipeline for the next generation of nonprofit and social-sector leaders.

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🎙️ NEW EPISODE ALERT — Silicon Valley Impact This week, we sat down with two powerhouse innovators: Jackie Wu and Alan Malon.

Jackie’s story is one of extraordinary transformation. From escaping war-torn Vietnam and arriving in the U.S. barely speaking English… to building a career that spans Stanford University, Nvidia, and becoming a Top 1% nationwide Enterprise Sales Professional across multiple Fortune 500 companies.

During the pandemic, Jackie launched Treasure Life’s Journey from scratch—and within a year, was serving clients across multiple continents. Today, she coaches founders and revenue leaders using her signature method:

🔥 Quick Sales Conversion — One Conversation to YES™ – The same method she used to close $228,000 with Tiffany & Co. in under 30 minutes, – And win the support of California State Treasurer Fiona Ma in just 7 minutes.

Jackie teaches entrepreneurs how to grow faster, avoid burnout, and bypass the endless follow-ups and drawn-out negotiations that drain time and profit.

Alan has been deep in LLMs and SLMs since 2019, advancing his research at Stanford. He’s raised venture capital in both Latin America and Silicon Valley and worked with tier-1 accelerators and global VCs.

His track record includes:

⚙️ 10+ years scaling B2B platforms serving 3,000+ businesses 🚀 Pioneering the “Automated Social Media Content” category in 2017 📈 Scaling Brazil’s fastest-growing MarTech to market leadership (2022) 💸 Supporting founders in raising millions—including X.ai’s $1B round

This—and so much more—is inside this week’s episode of Silicon Valley Impact, where business insight meets startup innovation.

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