Aaron Vaccaro
President
Emerging Tech, VC
Sacramento, California, USA
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Aaron Vaccaro is a world-class visionary, leader, venture capitalist, investor, and executive known for building businesses at the intersection of innovation, experience, and culture. He currently serves as a partner at the venture capital firm WestRiver Group and as President of Singularity University.
As a partner at WestRiver Group, Aaron has helped visionary founders bring bold ideas to life by investing in what he calls “the inevitable and the enduring,” the technologies shaping the future and the timeless human experiences that connect us. Early in his career, he helped grow internationally acclaimed Topgolf from a niche concept into a cultural movement. This experience shaped his business and leadership philosophy by teaching him how to scale businesses without losing their soul.
Today, at Singularity University, Aaron leads one of the world’s most influential platforms for future-focused leadership. Under his stewardship, the organization has achieved profitability, refined its mission, and reestablished a leadership with accountability and empowerment. Singularity teaches leaders across business, government, and nonprofit sectors to harness exponential technologies with confidence and purpose. For Aaron, this is about more than innovation; it’s about making sure the future is built by people who think deeply and lead responsibly.
Aaron’s work is guided by a signature philosophy: making the aspirational accessible. From democratizing golf to expanding access to exponential technologies, he has spent his career reimagining how people interact with ideas that once felt out of reach. Across all his ventures, he focuses on removing friction and complexity without compromising excellence.
Aaron’s leadership style is grounded in a balance he calls Truth and Grace, a philosophy he learned from his alma mater, Whitworth University, where he now serves on the Board of Trustees. This means setting a high bar while leading with humility, building trust through candor, and creating space for people to grow. It’s a mindset that’s helped him lead teams through complexity, scale purpose-driven businesses, and build cultures where ambition and empathy coexist.
A Northern California native now based in Sacramento, Aaron’s career has been shaped by a lifelong curiosity about what drives people and progress. Whether he’s advising startups, leading global conversations about the future, or mentoring the next generation of leaders, he brings a deep belief that business can be both bold and human. Through every chapter, Aaron remains focused on a singular goal: helping build a future that’s not only technologically advanced but also deeply thoughtful, inclusive, and worth inheriting.
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