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Preparing for your later-stage raise: Insider strategies from top investors at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025


Zeya Yang, Andrea Thomaz, and Lila preston explain how to prepare for your later-stage raise at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, October 27-29. Register to join.

Three powerhouse voices in venture and AI-driven innovation will share what it really takes to close major rounds — long before you’re in the room with investors. Zeya Yang, partner, IVP — former product leader at a16z, Plaid, and Dropbox; invests in AI-native startups like Graphite, Macro, and Tennr. Lila Preston, head of growth equity, Generation Investment Management — scaling impact-focused companies since 2004; board member for Nature’s Fynd and Pivot Bio; brings a global financial and mission-driven perspective.

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