Salesforce & BizOps enthusiast. Expertise in leading operations & success teams, thinking at scale and architecting Salesforce solutions.

Experienced Product Manager and builder of web and mobile apps for Pandora, SquareTrade, RealtyShares and Rakuten. Harvard MBA ’13.

Brett is a Venture Partner at Bonfire Ventures. His entire career has been focused on growing software companies — fast. From 2013-2016, Brett served as COO at SmartRecruiters. Prior to SmartRecruiters, Brett spent a decade at Salesforce.com where he served in a variety of senior leadership roles in Sales, R&D, and Operations including SVP Products, EVP/GM of Data Cloud, and EVP/GM of Marketing . 

Brett is an active seed investor and advisor to numerous software entrepreneurs and serves on the board of SmartRecruiters, Pendo, Lytics, and Invoca. Other angel investments include Oureach.io,  MOAT (acquired by Oracle for $850mm), Yespath (acquired by Medium) and more. 

Mallun Yen is a board director, public company officer, technology executive, founder and global intellectual property leader who has launched and scaled businesses, transformed markets by disrupting industry conventions, and created vibrant worldwide communities.  

With a deep understanding of Silicon Valley innovation and a proven track record of growth, Mallun has led companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100 enterprises in developing transformational organizations, initiatives and products using data, technology and collaboration to shift behaviors and build new revenue streams.

Mallun has received numerous awards, including SF Business Times’ Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business, Forever Influential, World’s Leading Intellectual Property Strategists, and Innovators’ Award–Serial Innovator, and been featured in various publications, including The Secrets of Silicon Valley, Stiletto Network, Entrepreneur and Law.com.

Leyla Seka, the second former Salesforce executive to back Spekit, brings decades of product-building experience along with ten years of scaling the Salesforce AppExchange, the largest B2B marketplace with more than 5000 applications and six million installs. She is admired for her dedication to diversity and inclusion, inspiring Salesforce CEO, Marc Benioff to institute equal pay.

Natty is deeply committed to the Colorado startup ecosystem. Natty co-founded Everlater, a blogging platform that radically simplified sharing travel experiences, and guided it from Techstars to an AOL acquisition in 2012. He’s the Managing Director for five Techstars Boulder accelerator programs and counting. Natty came on as a partner at Matchstick in 2018. Matchstick Ventures has made over 100 investments including Inspectorio, Branch, ScaleFactor, AdHawk, and Upsie.