Kendra Ryan joined F-Prime in 2026 as a Director of Ecosystem Network. She focuses on nurturing and expanding the firm’s executive talent and advisory networks across AI, fintech, and enterprise software. Prior to F-Prime, she was a Director at SPMB Executive Search where she led executive searches across the technology ecosystem.
In addition to her role at F-Prime, Kendra serves as an Advisory Board Member for the Best Buddies San Francisco Chapter, a nonprofit dedicated to ending the social, physical, and economic isolation of people with intellectual and development disabilities.
Kendra graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Neuroscience.
Liam is an Associate at F-Prime, where he focuses on early-stage investments in enterprise software and frontier technologies. Prior to joining F-Prime, he was a consultant at Bain & Company in the Private Equity Group, working with leading private and growth equity firms on software commercial due diligences.
Liam is a graduate of Swarthmore College, where he received degrees in Economics and Political Science, and was a student-athlete.
Lucia is an Executive Assistant and the Office Manager of F-Prime’s San Francisco Office. Lucia supports a number of Principals across the firm’s San Francisco and Cambridge offices.
Prior to F-Prime, Lucia was Executive Assistant to the Dean of Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Lucia also previously held EA and Development Associate roles at a non-profit in the Boston area, after transitioning from roles in Music.
Lucia received her M.M. in Collaborative Piano from the New England Conservatory of Music, and B.A. in Piano Performance from University of California, Santa Cruz.
Stephanie is a Venture Partner at F-Prime, advising portfolio companies in the USA, Europe, and India on their GTM strategies for sales, marketing, and customer success. She is also currently a Value Accelerator Operating Advisor at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and previously held roles at Salesforce, Cordial Inc., Iterable, and Optimizely. Prior to her current roles, she was CMO at Gainsight where she successfully re-structured the Marketing and Business Development organizations ahead of the company’s $1.1bn exit in 2020, gaining valuable M&A experience along the way.
Stephanie brings more than 30 years of experience building and advising impactful and customer-centric sales and marketing teams at high-growth SaaS companies. She understands growth stage, scale-up, and established public company structure and culture, with knowledge of scaling companies from $3M ARR to more than $300M.
Stephanie is a graduate of the University of Northumberland, where she received a degree in Marketing (Hons).
Michael is a Venture Partner at F-Prime focusing on FinTech and Saas companies. Previously, Michael was the 1st Finance & Ops hire at multiple venture backed SaaS startups (Affinity, Drawbridge) who built high performing Strategy, Finance, and Ops functions while raising $200M+ from leading venture firms. Earlier in his career, he helped found Fluid Financial, an on-demand invoice financing and cash flow management platform.
In recent years, Michael has leveraged his experience & expertise to serve as Advisor and Investor for numerous early stage startups.
Michael is a resident of Oakland and holds an B.A. in Economics from UC Berkeley.
Rocio Wu is a Partner at F-Prime Capital, where she leads investments across AI, Enterprise, and FinTech. She regularly publishes her investment theses in the Forbes VC Column, exploring how emerging technologies reshape industries and global markets.
Previously, Rocio was an investor at Liquid 2 Ventures, founded by NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana, where she backed companies including Chipper Cash, a leading African cross-border payments platform, and Overjet, an AI company transforming oral healthcare. Before her investing career, Rocio held operating roles at Google and Amazon spanning corporate development, go-to-market strategy, and marketing across the U.S., Japan, Spain, and China.
Rocio is a community builder who convenes founders, operators, and investors across networks such as Xooglers, Women in AI, Female Founders & Funders, and HBS Circles. She is drawn to founders who challenge conventional wisdom and to ideas that connect disciplines in unexpected ways – an orientation that shapes her approach to investing and company-building.
Rocio holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Shanghai International Studies University, through a joint program with Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Spain.
Betsy Mulé is a Principal at F-Prime, where she focuses on early-stage investments in enterprise technology and robotics. Prior to joining F-Prime, she was a strategy consultant at Mars & Co. where she advised Fortune 500 companies across the US, LatAm and Europe.
Betsy is a graduate of MIT where she majored in Chemical-Biological Engineering.
Connie is a Principal on the life sciences team at F-Prime based in San Francisco. She focuses primarily on biotechnology investments and also works closely with the Eight Roads Ventures China team to manage F-Prime’s existing and new investment efforts in China. Connie joined F-Prime in 2019, and has been involved in a number of company formation efforts including K36 Tx, Skyline, Pediatrix, and AlphaGen. Prior to joining F-Prime, Connie was a Consultant with IQVIA in New York, where she advised biopharmaceutical companies on commercial, development, and portfolio strategy topics.
Connie holds an M.B.A from Harvard Business School, M.S. from the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, and a B.S.E. in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
Carlos Bustamante joined F-Prime in January 2019 as a Venture Partner based in the San Francisco office, and is focused on the application of data science and genomics technology to problems in medicine, agriculture, and biology. He is currently on leave from Stanford University where he is a Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Genetics, and (by courtesy) Biology, was founding Director of the Stanford Center for Computational, Evolutionary, and Human Genomics and is Inaugural Chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science.
Carlos has a passion for building new academic units, non-profits, and companies to solve pressing scientific challenges. He is currently a Director at EdenRoc Sciences, LLC and Etalon DX, founder of Arc Bio, LLC and CDB Consulting LTD., and has served as an SAB member for more than a dozen companies.
Carlos received his PhD in Biology and MS in Statistics from Harvard University.
Jay Farber is a Venture Partner at F-Prime, where he leads early-stage investments in FinTech and SaaS companies. Jay joined F-Prime in 2015. He has led or participated in investments in Ashby, Papaya Payments, AvantStay, Quovo, Snapsheet, Vestwell, and System2.
Jay is also General Manager of the technology (GPX) business at Juniper Square, a leading institutional fund administrator and technology provider to VC, PE, and PERE funds. Juniper Square’s clients manage more than $1T in investor capital.
Jay is physically a Bay Area resident and culturally a Seattleite, but has invested across the country and does not hold the Patriots fandom of his F-Prime colleagues against them (mostly).