Eric Yuan founded Zoom in 2011 to deliver happiness and bring teams together to get more done in a frictionless video environment. Zoom’s video-first unified communications platform continues to dramatically transform the way leading global enterprise companies communicate. Under Eric’s leadership, Zoom was one of the highest-performing tech IPOs of 2019.

Prior to founding Zoom, Eric was corporate vice president of engineering at Cisco, where he was responsible for Cisco's collaboration software development. Eric was one of the founding engineers and vice president of engineering at Webex. Between 1997 and 2011, he grew his team from 10 engineers to more than 800 worldwide and contributed to revenue growth from $0 to more than $800M.

Eric has been named one of the Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech by Business Insider. In 2018, he was named the #1 CEO of a large US company by Glassdoor and EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California (software category). Also in 2019, he was added to the Bloomberg 50, as a leader who changed the game in global business. Eric is a named inventor on 11 issued and 20 pending patents in real-time collaboration.

Natsuki leads DNX's Portfolio Platform. She joined the firm in 2015 and built the firm's operational process by leveraging her network within the venture world. Since then, she's been focusing on building the firm's portfolio platform team, where she supports early-stage portfolio companies.

Before joining DNX, Natsuki was a Marketing & Sales specialist at Nissan Motors HQ in Japan, overseeing the dealerships to increase Nissan's sales volume in the domestic market. Natsuki holds a BA in Sociology from Keio University in Tokyo.

As a happy transplant to the Bay Area, Natsuki spends her weekends hiking, running, and discovering great restaurants.

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Matt Garratt currently serves as the Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures, the strategic investment arm for Salesforce with over 300 portfolio companies across 20 countries. While at Salesforce, Matt has completed investments in leading enterprise SaaS companies, including Anaplan, Automation Anywhere, Gainsight, Highspot, MuleSoft, Twilio and Zoom. Prior to Salesforce, he was a Vice President at Battery Ventures where he invested in early-stage Enterprise Software and GreenIT companies.

Matt holds a BS from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of Michigan where he helped to develop The Frankel Cleantech Fund and was an Erb Fellow where he performed research for the UN. He currently serves as a mentor and advisor to several startups and organizations including the Endeavour.org and the Frankel Fund at the University of Michigan.

len Sun is a partner at Sequoia Capital China and focuses on investments in technology and consumer sectors.  Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2006, Glen worked at General Atlantic, focusing on technology growth equity investment.  

He also worked at Monitor Group in HK as a consultant.  Glen has a BA from Harvard College, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a JD from Harvard Law School.  

Akira has been in the venture business for 20 years in the US and Japan, and backed more than 50 enterprise software start-ups: TeamSpirit (TSE Mothers 4397), Money Foward (TSE Mothers 3994), Sansan (TSE Mothers 4443), Hottolink (TSE Mothers 3680), TerraSky (TSE Mothers 3915), SynergyMarketing (Acquired by Yahoo Japan), 1st Holdings (Acquired by Orix), Shanon (TSE Mothers 3976), Kabuku (Acquired by Futaba Corporation), Beceem Communications (acquired by Broadcom) and Smart Signal (acquired by GE Intelligent Platforms) etc.).

Akira currently serves on the boards of Money Forward (TSE Mothers 3994), FROM SCRATCH, Andpad, XICA, toBe Marketing, UPWARD, Kakehashi, Mazrica, Trend Express, Adacotech, Creadits, and Knowledge Work and is a board observer at Folio, Studist, Spacely, Flect, Alphaus, HERP, Resily, Alp, Techtouch and Tutorial.

Before joining DNX Ventures, Akira was Japan Head at Salesforce Ventures and Globespan Capital Partners. Prior to Globespan, Akira spent 5 years at Mitsui & Co., Ltd and led the company's venture capital activities both in the US and Japan. He was Co-Founder & Director of Mitsui Technology Investment Group in Silicon Valley. Previously, Akira spent 5 years at Fujitsu Limited in various roles including Corporate Development, Corporate Strategy, and Sales.

Akira is a published author of The Corporate Venture Capital Handbook, Chuokeizai-sha, Inc.  Akira holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a BA and Ph.D. in Technology Management from Doshisha University and completed Executive Management Program at University of Tokyo (Spring 2017)