Ann Bordetsky is founder and managing partner of Elora Capital, a San Francisco fund she started in 2026 to back early-stage AI founders, investing $1 million to $20 million per company. She spent the prior five years as a partner at NEA, where she led the Series A round in Perplexity and backed ElevenLabs. Before venture capital she was chief operating officer of Rival, an event commerce platform Live Nation acquired in 2020, and held business development roles at Uber and Twitter. She holds an MBA from Stanford.