Vesal Yazdi

Australian-born and raised, Vesal is a venture capital investor and startup advisor obsessed with helping creative and innovative internet media and technology businesses grow. He is a former investor at Bessemer Venture Partners. Vesal has also worked as an investor at Coatue, a $7B technology and media venture capital and hedge fund, as well as an M&A analyst at Goldman Sachs. In a previous life, he studied as a pianist at a national conservatory in Australia before training as an operatic tenor during his undergraduate studies. He is a former actor at Herbert Berghof Studio in New York. He never gives up an opportunity to play piano and is not a fussy eater.