Riley Rodgers is a venture capital investor at Valia Ventures who went from founding mobility startup Crash Alert to investing at Arctaris Capital Partners before joining Valia, giving him a "failed founder → Series A/B investor → pre-seed/seed investor" path that shapes his empathy for early-stage teams. He serves as board member and San Francisco Bay Area chapter lead for the Emerging Venture Capitalists Association, driving programs like GP mentorship and workshops for 1,300+ members, while also mentoring hundreds of startup founders through MIT Enterprise Forum, SCORE, and MassChallenge outside his day job. Riley Rodgers is a venture capital investor at Valia Ventures who went from founding mobility startup Crash Alert to investing at Arctaris Capital Partners before joining Valia, giving him a "failed founder → Series A/B investor → pre-seed/seed investor" path that shapes his empathy for early-stage teams. He serves as board member and San Francisco Bay Area chapter lead for the Emerging Venture Capitalists Association, driving programs like GP mentorship and workshops for 1,300+ members, while also mentoring hundreds of startup founders through MIT Enterprise Forum, SCORE, and MassChallenge outside his day job.