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Curious about startups? Join Miles Bird (CMC\u201913), managing partner of StoryHouse Ventures, and Randy Saaf (HMC\u201998), Co-founder and CEO at Play Cubed for a behind-the-scenes conversation with portfolio founders and CEOs. In collaboration with Claremont Accelerator!<\/p>\n

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Miles Bird is a Founder and Managing Partner at StoryHouse Ventures and oversees StoryHouse’s enterprise investments. Miles focuses on B2B software and is also involved in the firm’s life sciences and deeptech investments. Prior to StoryHouse, Miles helped lead enterprise investing at early-stage VC firm Tuesday Capital, which was an early investor in AirBnB, Uber, Digital Ocean, and GitLab, among others. Prior to Tuesday, he was an investor at Correlation Venture Partners, focusing on enterprise investments in the Bay Area. Prior to Correlation, Miles was the head of growth and community for the Kairos Society, a global student entrepreneurship network. Miles earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from Claremont McKenna College.<\/p>\n

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Randy Saaf (Harvey Mudd’98) is the Co-founder and CEO at Play Cubed. Play Cubed is an AI app studio currently developing\u00a0Unvault.AI<\/a>: The AI Investment Partner in Your Pocket. He is also the Co-founder at Lucid Sight, developer of the first officially licensed sports NFTs MLB Champions and first officially licensed Star Trek NFTs. Randy has testified to Congress three times on various technology matters, and has been interviewed about technology on 60 Minutes, NBC Nightly News, Yahoo Finance, WSJ, and various other news outlets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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