3i Member Spotlight

Jessica Beck is the Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Alfred, a leading technology-first residential property management platform in North America, currently managing $7.5B of institutional real estate. Jessica holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from Williams College. Jessica has been a 3i member since 2022.

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Experience & lessons learned at Harvard Business School

Navigating startup funding during unprecedented times

Business strategy & expansion of Alfred

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Zoë, formerly the Senior Vice President of AI at Citi, is a distinguished leader in the AI field with over 12 years of experience. At Citi, she spearheaded the adoption of agentic AI across the firm, enhancing various business processes. Prior to this, as a Staff Applied Scientist at Etsy, she led initiatives in personalized search and discovery. A graduate of NYU with a deep background in AI, Zoë holds three patents in large language models and is an active angel investor in AI-first startups such as Tough Day, Starcycle, and Eden Labs. She is now the co-founder and CEO of Sequen AI, where she patented the first-of-their-kind scalable specialized agents that autonomously seek to maximize conversion rates. She has been a 3i member since 2024.

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Sector Impact: Discover how AI is transforming sectors like banking, healthcare, and retail, setting the stage for future innovations and investment opportunities.

Bridging the AI Ecosystem: Zoë shares insights from her experiences on how AI strategies vary between corporate giants and nimble startups across various fields.

Emerging AI Trends: Zoë highlights the latest advancements in AI, including generative models, Deepseek, and agentic technologies, and their profound effects on the market.

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Billy Libby is the Co-Founder & CEO of Upper90, a leading private credit firm that provides senior secured asset-backed facilities to technology companies with positive unit economics and collateral. Additionally, he is a Co-Founder and Board Member of 3iMembers. Before starting these new ventures, he served as the Head of Quant Execution and Market Making Sales at Goldman Sachs and as Managing Director at Knight Capital. He Co-Founded 3i Members in 2021 with Mark Gerson and Teddy Gold.
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• Billy's journey from Wharton to Goldman Sachs to creating a startup-focused financial firm.
• The strategy behind Upper90's unique investing philosophy for early-stage companies.
• His perspective on the future of venture capital and community-driven investment model.

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Mitch Julis, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Canyon Partners, leads one of the world's largest and most successful multi-strategy hedge funds. Established in 1990, Canyon Partners specializes in value-oriented and event-driven investments. Before establishing Canyon, Julis held positions as a portfolio director and practiced bankruptcy and creditors’ rights law. His scholarly work on bankruptcy and distressed credit investing has been widely published in law journals and other periodicals. Mr. Julis was honored with Institutional Investor's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. He holds degrees from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Business School. Mitch has been a member of 3i since 2022.

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Mitch’s upbringing and academic philosophy, pivotal lessons from Princeton, Harvard Business & Law School

Founding & success of Canyon Partners, the importance of a compatible co-founder & partner

Predictions and opportunities in private credit

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Craig Weiss is a leading Entrepreneur, Investor, and an Author. Currently, he is the Managing Partner of Flagstaff Ventures, where he brings entrepreneur-focused perspective to the venture capital field as one of the few institutional investors to have both built a unicorn as a CEO and also identified and invested in an early-stage startup that has achieved unicorn status. Craig has been a 3i Member since 2023.
In this episode, Craig discusses his experience writing two books on Israel's War of Independence, coining the concept of a "karmapreneur," and finding deep community value in Зі. He reveals how spiritual and commercial aims merge to create both financial and societal impact.

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Lessons from Authorship: Through archival research, interviews, and declassified military documents, Craig uncovered overlooked historical narratives-an approach he sees as mirroring the diligence required in startup investing.

Pivoting from Patent Attorney to CEO: How a background in patent law primed Craig for evaluating inventions and led to growing a vaping-tech startup that helped bring about a near smoke-free generation.

Integrating Business & Spirituality: Craig reflects on seeing seemingly different domains—venture investing, intellectual life, and moral purpose—as fundamentally connected, guiding his vision for future “karmapreneurs.”

Craig's Books:

• I Am My Brother’s Keeper: American Volunteers in Israel's War for Independence 1947-1949
• Fighting Back: Stan Andrews and the Birth of the Israeli Air Force

Documentary:

• Above and Beyond (2014 documentary featuring Craig Weiss)

Craig's Professional Links:

• Flagstaff Ventures (Craig Weiss's Venture Firm)
• Craig Weiss LinkedIn

Additional References from Conversation:

• Reason.com article covering Sen. Rockefeller’s vaping remarks
• Cast a Giant Shadow (1966 film about Mickey Marcus, mentioned in episode)

3i Members Links:

• 3i Members Official Website
• 3i Members LinkedIn