Female VC Lab - SoundSage

View Details

Welcome back to the Female VC Lab Podcast! In this episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Keara Sauber, CEO of Sauber Capital. Keara shared her journey into venture capitalism, her investment thesis, and her thoughts on the future of the industry. Here are some key takeaways from our conversation.

Who is Keara Sauber?Keara Sauber has over 20 years of experience in the healthcare and technology sectors. She began her career in big pharma, driven by a passion for making impactful changes in healthcare. Her focus areas include:

Biotech
Diagnostics
Women's health
Health and wellness

Keara's Investment ThesisKeara's investment philosophy is rooted in her commitment to healthcare innovation. Her approach encompasses two main arms:

Venture Investments: Targeting seed to Series A funding for startups.
Growth Capital: Investing in revenue-generating companies that are not necessarily in life sciences.

Key Focus Areas Biotech and Diagnostics: Keara emphasizes investing in companies that innovate at the intersection of cutting-edge science and impactful healthcare solutions. * Women's Health*: She is particularly passionate about supporting female founders who are addressing critical healthcare needs.

The Longevity SpaceKeara expressed her interest in the longevity sector, highlighting the importance of understanding the difference between health span and lifespan. She is currently exploring:

Inflammatory markers: Keara believes inflammation is a critical factor in many health issues and is focused on preventative diagnostics.
Breakthroughs in longevity: With the FDA recognizing longevity as a therapeutic category, Keara sees opportunities for innovation and collaboration in this space.

Evolving Landscape of Venture CapitalWhen asked about the future of venture capital, Keara shared her insights on how the industry is likely to evolve over the next two years:

Specialization: A shift towards more specialized funds focusing on specific sectors, such as diagnostics and biotech.
Collaboration: Increased cooperation between venture capitalists, private equity funds, and investment bankers to support portfolio companies better.
Diverse Funding Options: A need for venture funds to explore alternative financial instruments, such as debt, to avoid excessive dilution for founders.

Best Practices for Women in LeadershipKeara emphasized the importance of women supporting women in leadership roles. Here are her key recommendations:

Check-in on Each Other: Simple questions like "How are you doing today?" can foster collaboration and support.
Be Honest: Sharing your true status can lead to more powerful collaborations.

The Importance of Understanding Capital StructuresKeara highlighted that founders seeking venture capital should understand the balance sheets and where the money comes from. She pointed out that:

Venture funds are not just sitting on capital: They have responsibilities to their investors and must adhere to specific criteria.
Founders should do their homework: Understanding the fund's investment thesis can save time and effort in the fundraising process.

Looking AheadAs we wrapped up our conversation, Keara expressed excitement about the future of venture capital, particularly regarding:

Robotics and AI: The potential for innovation in these fields is significant, and Keara is eager to see how they will evolve.
Collaboration and Inclusion: Keara believes that fostering a more inclusive environment will lead to more robust and sustainable business practices.

ConclusionKeara Sauber's insights provide a valuable perspective on the evolving landscape of venture capital, particularly for women in the industry. By focusing on collaboration, understanding capital structures, and supporting female founders, we can pave the way for a more inclusive and innovative future.

For more insights, make sure to listen to the full episode on the Female VC Lab Podcast. You can also connect with Keara on LinkedIn to stay updated on her journey and insights in the venture capital space.

View Details

Episode Highlights with Kt McBratneyWelcome back to the Female VC Lab Podcast! In this episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Kt McBratney, a partner at Renew Venture Capital and the driving force behind Purpose Rounds. Kt shared her inspiring journey into the world of venture capital, her investment thesis, and her vision for the future of the industry.

From Journalism to Venture CapitalKt path to becoming a venture capitalist was anything but conventional. Here are some key takeaways from her journey:

Background: Kt began her career in journalism before transitioning to marketing for stability and health insurance.
Founder's Perspective: After operating her own startup, she sought a new opportunity where she could make an impact, leading her to Renew Venture Capital.
Community Focus: Kt emphasized the importance of true community connections over superficial networking, highlighting how community can serve as the connective tissue of a purpose-driven venture firm.

Investment ThesisKt investment philosophy is rooted in supporting impactful founders and historically overlooked groups:

Impact Founders: Renew Venture Capital backs companies that aim to make a positive impact across various sectors.
Women and Underrepresented Founders: A significant part of their thesis is dedicated to supporting women and founders from historically excluded backgrounds.

Kt articulated the critical intersectionality of these two focuses, noting that:

Business Case: Companies led by diverse founders often demonstrate higher revenue and capital efficiency.
Addressing Inequities: The venture capital landscape has a long way to go in addressing the systemic exclusion of diverse founders, and Katie is determined to be part of the solution.

Challenging Ineffective SystemsKt discussed the need to confront and change exclusionary systems within the venture capital industry:

Dual Mission: Renew Venture Capital aims to produce financial returns (alpha) while also challenging and changing ineffective systems.
Critical Questions: She emphasized the importance of asking "why" and interrogating established norms in the industry.

Current Learning and ReadingKt is an avid reader and lifelong learner. Recently, she has been diving into:

Books: Currently reading Worn, which explores the history of textiles and their connection to economics and culture.
Learning Approach: Kt believes in continually questioning and digging deeper into topics, challenging assumptions, and seeking a broader understanding of systems at play.

Future of Venture CapitalLooking ahead, Kt envisions a more inclusive and innovative venture capital landscape:

Societal Alignment: More capital will be directed toward addressing societal challenges.
Diverse Representation: The industry will see greater representation in decision-making roles, driven by the values of the upcoming generations.
Innovation in VC: Venture capitalists will need to innovate alongside their portfolio companies, fostering a culture of growth and adaptation.

Connect with KtKt is eager to connect with like-minded individuals. Here’s how you can reach her:

LinkedIn: Connect with Kt McBratney
Renew Venture Capital: Learn more about their work at renewvc.com
Purpose Rounds: Explore equity crowdfunding opportunities at purposerounds.com

Thank you for joining us for this insightful episode featuring Kt McBratney! Stay tuned for more conversations that inspire change in the venture capital landscape.

View Details

Show Notes: Episode E104 - Anne Gherini - SIERRA Ventures

Episode Summary:
In this enlightening episode of Female VC Lab, our host Barbara Bickham sits down with Anne Gherini, the CMO at Sierra Ventures, an early-stage VC firm focusing on the future of enterprise. Anne reveals her journey from being an operator to a venture capitalist, the dynamic role she plays in Sierra Ventures, and her investment thesis centered around B2B SaaS. She also shares her insights on the rapid changes in the venture capital world and the significance of go-to-market strategies.

Key Topics Discussed:
- Anne Gherini's career transition from operator to venture capitalist
- Detailed breakdown of Anne's role as a CMO at Sierra Ventures
- Sierra Ventures’ investment thesis focused on early-stage B2B SaaS companies
- Importance of building a technical moat and go-to-market strategies
- Anne’s recommendations on reading and continuously learning about health and longevity

Fun Facts:
1. Diverse Portfolio: Sierra Ventures invests almost exclusively in B2B software but has delved into deep tech sectors like quantum computing and Vertex AI.
2. Passion for Optimization: Anne is enthusiastic about optimizing not only businesses and campaigns but also personal health and longevity, inspired by Peter Attia's book "Outlive."
3. Constant Learning: Besides sitting on investment teams and helping build campaigns, Anne enjoys the continuous learning aspect of venture capital, finding excitement in the pace of advancements in technology and startup solutions.

Contact Information:
- Anne Gherini on LinkedIn
- Anne Gherini on Twitter (X): @AnnieG
- Sierra Ventures Website

Thanks for Listening! Thank you for tuning in to this episode of Female VC Lab. Be sure to subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed the episode. Stay tuned for more inspiring stories from female venture capitalists around the world!

View Details

Show Notes: Female VC Lab Podcast

Episode: E103 - Katie Quilligan of BankTech Ventures

Host:

Barbara Bickham

Guest:

Katie Quilligan, Investor at BankTech Ventures

Episode Summary:

In this insightful episode, Barbara Bickham chats with Katie Quilligan, an investor at BankTech Ventures. Katie shares her journey from the operator side at American Express to becoming a venture capitalist, driven by her passion for supporting women entrepreneurs and bridging the funding gap. She discusses BankTech Ventures' strategic focus on aiding community banks by providing innovative fintech solutions to improve their efficiency and competitiveness. Katie delves into the current trends and challenges in the banking industry, especially the integration of AI and the importance of balancing innovation with regulatory compliance.

Key Points:

Journey to Venture Capital: Katie transitioned from a career in operations at American Express to venture capital to help women entrepreneurs secure funding.
BankTech Ventures’ Thesis: The fund aims to bridge traditional community banking with modern fintech solutions by acting as an R&D arm for over 100 community banks.
AI in Banking: Katie discusses the growing role of AI in banking, emphasizing its potential to streamline both front and back-office operations while navigating regulatory challenges.

Fun Facts:

Katie's first venture capital experience was with Petra Griffith at Wedbush Ventures in LA.
Community banks are responsible for over 60% of small business loans and more than 80% of agricultural loans in the U.S.
Katie likens the role of AI in banks to that of an intern, aiding in tasks but still requiring human oversight.

Contact Information:

Katie Quilligan: LinkedIn or via email at katie@banktechventures.com

Podcast Links:

Female VC Lab Podcast Website

Follow Us:

Instagram: @FemaleVCLab

Tune in for more inspiring stories and insights from leading women in venture capital!

View Details

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:15 What inspired you to become a VC?00:45 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?03:19 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?03:53 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?06:56 How do people contact you?07:18 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Keri Findley, is the founder of Tacora Capital, an Austin, Texas based firm which does asset-backed private credit to venture-owned companies. Providing loans to youngish companies is an important part of the VC ecosystem, and Keri takes pride in helping young entrepreneurs grow their startups.

Guest Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/in/keri-findley-4a974a10a/

Fund Information:Tacora creates opportunity in the “white space” among venture capital, private credit, and special opportunities by developing custom financing solutions with a combination of equity, debt, and other tools to help tech-enabled companies grow their assets.

Fund Site:https://www.tacoracap.com/

Fund Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/company/tacora-capital/

Support The StreamDIRECT SUPPORT https://femalevclab.com/donateBUY ME A COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/femalevclabMERCH STORE https://teespring.com/stores/trailynFOLLOW US https://www.femalevclab.com/follow/OFFICIAL PODCAST WEBSITE https://femalevclab.com

Like, Share and Stay connected via social media
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/femalevclab/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/femalevclab
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@femalevclab
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@femalevclab

View Details

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:15 What inspired you to become a VC?01:17 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?03:07 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?04:16 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?05:21 How do people contact you?05:44 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Corinne Bortniker is a Director at Cohen Circle where she supports SPAC deal execution and venture capital investments. Previously, Corinne was a Vice President at Wells Fargo Securities, focused on Technology, Media, and Telecom Equity Capital Markets. She has extensive experience executing equity capital markets transactions, raising proceeds for public and private companies. Prior to Wells Fargo Securities, she was an Equity Capital Markets analyst at Cowen Inc. Corinne holds a B.A. in Business and Psychology from Brandeis University.

Guest Contact:LinkedIn

Fund Information:Cohen Circle is an investment firm founded by financial services pioneers, Betsy Cohen and her son Daniel Cohen. Since 2015, the firm has provided transformative capital to late-stage fintech companies. Today, the firm makes investments across the capital structure in the fintech, technology, and impact spaces, with $5bn+ in capital raised.Fund Site:https://cohencircle.com/

Fund Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/company/cohen-circle/
https://twitter.com/CohenCircle

View Details

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:20 How did Women's World Banking come about and how did you get involved with the Women's World Bank?06:15 How do you think what you're doing at the women's world banking will impact venture capital or be an enhancement or addition to venture capital?06:28 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?15:04 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?18:46 How do people contact you?19:22 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Mary Ellen Iskenderian is President and CEO of Women’s World Banking, the global nonprofit devoted to giving more low-income women access to the financial tools and resources they need to achieve security and prosperity. Ms. Iskenderian has led the Women’s World Banking global team, based in New York, since 2006 and also serves on the Investment Committees of its two impact investment funds.

Previously, Ms. Iskenderian worked at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank, and the investment bank Lehman Brothers. Ms. Iskenderian is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as a member of the Women’s Forum of New York and the UN’s Business and Sustainable Development Commission. She serves as a Director on the Board of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Ms. Iskenderian holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in International Economics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Recently, she was recognized in the Forbes 50 over 50: Investment list, which highlights female investors and financial leaders. Her first book, There’s Nothing Micro About a Billion Women: Making Finance Work for Women, was published by MIT Press in April 2022.

Guest Contact:LinkedIn
Personal Website

Fund Information:With >$150M AUM, Women’s World Banking Asset Management (“WAM”) has been spearheading gender lens investing for financial inclusion in global emerging markets since 2012. WAM makes direct equity investments in inclusive financial institutions with an explicit focus on women through Women’s World Banking Capital Partners Funds I and II. We create value through advocacy and a dedicated technical assistance facility to help portfolio companies capture the sizable market of financially underserved women and attract female talent to all parts of their organizations, thereby achieving higher returns on investment while helping to close the gender gap in financial inclusion.

Fund I, a $50M fund with a 2012 vintage, launched gender-focused investing in inclusive emerging market financial service providers.
Fund II, a $103M fund with a 2020 vintage, expanded WAM’s gender-focused investment strategy in innovative inclusive financial service providers, with a dedicated, grant-funded technical assistance facility to help portfolio companies achieve strategic objectives.

Fund Site:Women’s World Banking

Fund Contact:Women’s World Banking on LinkedIn

View Details

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:26 What inspired you to become a VC?02:26 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?13:30 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?16:07 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?19:26 How do people contact you?20:05 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Madhu is a managing partner and co-founder of Rocketship.vc. Prior to Rocketship, she was Chief Data Officer for Gojek, contributing to its growth into a $10 billion unicorn. She served as an operating partner at a $150M PE fund building startups across Southeast Asia and was a member of Intuit’s Quickbooks Lending Platform founding team.

Guest Contact:
Madhu's LinkedIn Profile

Fund Information:Rocketship is a global venture capital firm using models built through data science with investments in 14 countries. Rocketship’s portfolio companies represent diversity in about 20 sectors, including AI software, HR Tech, e-commerce, real estate, and more.

Fund Site:http://rocketship.vc/

Fund Contact:Twitter
LinkedIn

View Details

E098: Nicole Valentine: Center for Financial Markets (CFM) at the Milken Institute Chapters:0:00 Introduction
0:29 What inspired you to get involved with Milken and how does one go about doing that?
4:11 How do you think that Milken is going to advance venture capital or private capital markets? Or how will it add to private capital markets?
08:09 What are you currently learning or listening to or reading these days?
10:25 In 2 years, how do you see what you are doing at Milken having changed or evolved?
13:47 How do people contact you?
14:35 Thank you
Featured Guest Bio:Nicole Valentine is the FinTech Director of the Center for Financial Markets at the Milken Institute with over a decade of financial services, international Mergers & Acquisitions, technology and innovation experience. She leads the FinTech Program with a focus on access to capital, financial inclusion, compliance and transparency. An attorney by background, Nicole practiced Mergers and Acquisitions and Securities at Wall Street law firm, Debevoise & Plimpton and then served as Assistant General Counsel and Vice President at global financial services firm, Cantor Fitzgerald. Nicole founded Synergy Business Development where she served as business strategist, advisor and consultant to CEOs and Innovation Leads at Fortune 500 companies, innovative startups, non-profits and government agencies. Nicole invested in the growth of the SME sector through financial acumen and business strategy tools and has been featured in the media on issues that impact small businesses and technology startups. Nicole Valentine earned her JD from the University of Virginia School of Law and her BA from American University in Political Science. She is a member of the NY Bar.

Guest Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolevalentinemoody/

Fund Information:The Center for Financial Markets (CFM) launched the FinTech Program in October 2014 to explore market innovation and developments, analyze alternative regulatory approaches, and offer policy recommendations to facilitate FinTech’s responsible development. Specifically, the FinTech Program focuses on three core topic areas: access to capital, financial inclusion, and transparency and compliance. As one of the first think-tanks to address the opportunities and challenges that FinTech presents, the program has since produced roughly 100 written reports, blogs, op-eds, and comment letters, and has hosted 80 private roundtables, public panel sessions, and congressional staff briefings covering FinTech.

Fund Site:https://milkeninstitute.org/

Fund Contact:https://milkeninstitute.org/
Fintech In Focus Newsletter

View Details

Join us for an intriguing conversation with Michael Phillips, the dynamic Chief Operating Officer of T.D. Jakes Enterprises. Recorded live from Milken's 2024 Global Conference, Michael dives deep into their social impact venture, Goodsoil, and how it’s making waves for minority businesses. 🌍👥

5 Keys You'll Learn from This Episode
1. The Power of "Why":
Discover why people don’t just buy your product—they buy WHY you make it. 🧐 2. Common Barriers for Founders:
Learn about the three main hurdles faced by entrepreneurs: wealth, credit, and trust. 💰🔍🤝 3. Creating Supportive Ecosystems:
Uncover the importance of building a strong, supportive network for minority businesses. 🌱💡 4. Impacts on Venture Capital:
Understand how addressing these barriers can change the game for minority-owned venture firms. 🚀 5. A Vision for the Future:
Hear Michael’s inspiring vision for unlocking the untapped potential of undercapitalized talent. 🌟

Fun Fact from the Episode
Did you know that Michael Phillips reads The Invisible Man every year? 📚 It started as a tradition with his son, and it’s become one of his personal rituals. Talk about dedication to a classic!

Outtro
Our chat with Michael was nothing short of enlightening. His insights into creating a digital playground for entrepreneurs and fostering trust within business ecosystems are truly transformative. You’re in for a treat!

Call to Action
Ready to get inspired and gain some valuable knowledge? Listen to Episode 097 now! Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the Female VC Lab podcast on your favorite listening platform.

As always, thank you for your support! We can't wait to hear what you think about this episode.

Stay curious and keep learning,
Barbara

P.S. Want to dive deeper into the world of Goodsoil and connect with Michael Phillips? Visit goodsoilform.com and explore the amazing work they’re doing!
Featured Guest Bio:Michael Phillips is a trailblazer in the realm of social entrepreneurship and impact, devoting his life to the relentless pursuit of empowering individuals for positive change. Serving as the Chief Operating Officer at T.D. Jakes Enterprises, he spearheads innovative initiatives across Content Creation, Cultural Change, Community Development, and Capital Investments.

Guest Contact:@mikephillipsofficial

Fund Information:Good Soil is a project of T.D. Jakes Enterprises, LLC and a mission to connect entrepreneurs to opportunities in an effort to increase and maintain generational wealth and economic health in our communities. Here, every conversation plants a seed for growth, making every moment an opportunity to bloom into the next phase of small businesses. Learn more about the mission to increase generational wealth and employment by supporting and nurturing under-resourced entrepreneurs by visiting https://www.goodsoilforum.com/ and https://www.goodsoilmovement.com/.

Fund Site:www.goodsoilforum.com
http://www.goodsoilmovement.com/

Fund Contact:@TheGoodSoilMovement
@GoodSoilForum

View Details

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:30 What inspired you to get involved with BrightEdge and how does one go about doing that?
1:52 How do you think that impact investing is going to like advanced venture capital or private capital markets? Or how will it add to private capital markets?
08:21 What are you currently learning or listening to or reading these days?
10:41 In 2 years, how do you see Artificial Intelligence impacting your industry?
11:27 How do people contact you?
11:53 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:
Alice Pomponio is Vice President of Innovation and Impact Investing at American Cancer Society and Managing Director of BrightEdge —ACS’s mission-driven venture capital and impact investment arm. She’s an impact investor, social innovation entrepreneur, and patient advocate with extensive experience in life sciences and business and passion for health equity.

Guest Contact:
Alice Pomponio on LinkedIn

Fund Information:
BrightEdge exists to accelerate the American Cancer Society's goal to reduce cancer mortality, end pain and suffering, and advance health equity. As their donor-funded impact venture capital fund, BrightEdge invests alongside top-tier life sciences and healthcare investors in for-profit companies developing therapeutics, diagnostics, medical devices, and technologies to eradicate cancer.

Fund Site:
ACS BrightEdge

Fund Contact:
BrightEdge on LinkedIn

View Details

Featured Guest Bio:Seasoned entrepreneur and resource mobilizer for positive social and environmental change.

Guest Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/in/margot-brandenburg-5834585/

Fund Information:We believe in the inherent dignity of all people. But around the world, too many people are excluded from the political, economic, and social institutions that shape their lives.

Across eight decades, our mission has sought to reduce poverty and injustice, strengthen democratic values, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement.

Learn more about our mission, our values and culture, and how we approach our work.

Fund Site:https://www.fordfoundation.org/

Fund Contact:https://www.fordfoundation.org/

Support The StreamDIRECT SUPPORT
https://femalevclab.com/donate
BUY ME A COFFEE
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/femalevclab

MERCH STORE
https://teespring.com/stores/trailyn

OFFICIAL PODCAST WEBSITE
https://femalevclab.com

Like, Share and Stay connected via social media
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/femalevclab/

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/femalevclab

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/

TikTok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@femalevclab

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@femalevclab

View Details

Show Notes:In this episode of the Female VC Lab Podcast, we're joined by Amy Hepburn, CEO of the Investor Leadership Network (ILN). Founded during the 2018 G7 summit, ILN represents 14 major institutional investors with a staggering $10 trillion in assets under management. Their focus areas include climate change, diversity, and private capital mobilization.
Amy shares her unconventional journey to finance from a background in girls' education and gender equality work. She emphasizes how aligning private capital is crucial for advancing causes she's passionate about – stating that it can help "get us across the finish line."
Discussing venture capital's potential impact on clean tech and green tech economies, Amy highlights the importance of innovation and diverse thought leadership in driving positive change within traditional investment models. She believes that embracing diversity isn't just about minimizing risks but also maximizing opportunities for lasting societal benefits.
At ILN since early 2020 amidst global lockdowns, Amy has been instrumental in scaling their initiatives focused on inclusive finance and industry-wide influence through diversity. The conversation touches upon creating shared futures through inclusivity – an ethos central to both ILN’s mission and the theme of Milken Conference where they are present.
With an eye always on geopolitical trends due to her role at ILN, Amy stays informed via outlets like The New York Times and Washington Post while enjoying podcasts on leadership authenticity for personal enrichment.
Looking ahead two years, Amy aspires for ILN to shape co-creation moments between public-private partnerships throughout financial ecosystems - aiming for more diverse voices making decisions at every level.
Listeners interested in connecting with Amy or learning more about her work can reach out via LinkedIn or visit www.investorleadershipnetwork.org. For direct communication: amy_hepburn@investorleadershipnetwork.org
Join us as we delve into these insightful topics with guest expert Amy Hepburn on Female VC Lab Podcast!
Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:37 What inspired you to become a VC?01:53 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?05:44 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?06:44 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?08:29 How do people contact you?08:55 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:As CEO of the Investor Leadership Network Secretariat since 2020, Amy Hepburn is charged with designing and delivering the long-term strategy of the ILN and representing the Network in collaboration with global stakeholders. Amy is a recognized impact investing expert and social entrepreneur with deep expertise on gender lens social investments and the care of children in crises. In this capacity, she has spent 20 years driving social change globally in the private, non-profit, and public sectors through the creation of unique public/private partnerships and investing for high impact social returns.

Guest Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-hepburn/

Fund Information:The Investor Leadership Network was launched at the 2018 G7 to facilitate and accelerate collaboration by leading institutional investors to drive the transition to a sustainable and inclusive global economy. As the leading network of investors taking action for people, planet and prosperity, the CEO-led group is composed of 13 global institutional investors representative of six countries, with over US$10 trillion in assets under management.

Fund Site:https://investorleadershipnetwork.org/en/about/

Fund Contact:https://investorleadershipnetwork.org/en/about/

Support The StreamDIRECT SUPPORT
https://femalevclab.com/donate
BUY ME A COFFEE
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/femalevclab

MERCH STORE
https://teespring.com/stores/trailyn

OFFICIAL PODCAST WEBSITE
https://femalevclab.com

Like, Share and Stay connected via social media
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/femalevclab/

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/femalevclab

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/

TikTok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@femalevclab

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@femalevclab

View Details

Featured Guest Bio:Genia Xasis is the CEO & Co-founder of Berkana.VC, a global community aimed at enhancing gender diversity in VC and tech. She assists seed and Series A companies with raising capital in MENA and is an angel investor focusing on pre-seed, female-led companies with an emphasis on impact and AI. Holds a PhD in Biochemistry.

Guest Contact:Genia Xasis LinkedIn

Fund Information:Berkana.VC, a global community founded by women for female investors and tech entrepreneurs, aims to empower women in traditionally male-dominated fields. Its co-founders are angel investors, focusing on pre-seed, female-led companies with an emphasis on impact and AI.

Fund Site:Berkana.VC

Fund Contact:Fund Social Media

Like, Share and Stay connected via social media
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/femalevclab/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/femalevclab
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@femalevclab
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@femalevclab

View Details

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:16 What inspired you to become a VC?05:22 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?11:10 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?18:25 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?21:28 How do people contact you?21:39 Thank youFeatured Guest Bio:Jess Mah built her first 6-figure business while still in middle school and has since created three companies that are each valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Among the companies she’s founded are inDinero, a fintech company that helps businesses manage their accounting and taxes; Astonishing Labs, a biotech firm focused on revolutionizing human health with groundbreaking innovations; and a litigation tech company that has empowered over a thousand individuals to pursue justice, offering resources they may otherwise have been unable to access. Jess studied computer science at U.C. Berkeley and has been featured on the cover of Inc. Magazine, as well as on the Forbes 30 Under 30, Inc. 30 Under 30, and Fast Magazine Most Creative Business Leaders lists. She’s also a Y Combinator alumna and a member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO).

Guest Contact:LinkedIn

Fund Information:Mahway is a venture builder that creates innovative, industry-changing, billion-dollar businesses that improve the world.

Fund Site:mahway.com

Fund Contact:Fund Social MediaSupport The StreamDIRECT SUPPORT https://femalevclab.com/donateBUY ME A COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/femalevclabMERCH STORE https://teespring.com/stores/trailynFOLLOW US https://www.femalevclab.com/follow/OFFICIAL PODCAST WEBSITE https://femalevclab.com

Like, Share and Stay connected via social media
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/femalevclab/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/femalevclab
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@femalevclab
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@femalevclab

View Details

Venture capital is an exhilarating and challenging arena, often dominated by a stereotypical image of who holds the power to invest. But times are changing, and so are the faces of those at the forefront of investment innovation. On today's episode of Female VC Lab podcast, we had the pleasure of hosting Jess from Shine Ventures—a trailblazer reshaping not only who invests but also what they choose to empower.

From Talent Management to Trendsetting Investments
Jess’s journey into venture capitalism wasn't your typical Wall Street tale. Her roots in managing talent through her company, Shine Talent Group, provided her with unique insights into emerging trends within lifestyle and wellness sectors—insights that she leveraged to support startups driven by real people with authentic stories.

What sets Jess apart is her approach to investments; she plans on adapting investment focuses biennially. This strategic pivot ensures that Shine Ventures stays ahead of market curves while supporting industries ripe for growth and innovation.

Spotlight on Women's Health: Investing Beyond Taboos
The upcoming focus for Shine Ventures? Women's health—from menopause to menstruation. It’s a sector historically shrouded in mystery and taboo but one that affects half the population directly. By opening up dialogue around these topics and investing in companies innovating within this space, Jess isn’t just funding businesses—she’s spearheading a movement towards greater awareness and better solutions for women worldwide.

This initiative couldn't be more timely as conversations around women's health have started gaining traction across various platforms, signaling readiness for disruption and progress.

Diversified Learning: The Key To A Well-Rounded Investment Philosophy
Jess doesn’t limit herself when it comes to knowledge acquisition; she balances fun reads with business podcasts probing into successful founders' minds. This diversified learning feeds into a well-rounded perspective essential for any investor looking beyond mere numbers—to understand motivations behind success stories truly.

The Rise of Female-Led Angel Investing
Looking forward, Jess predicts an uptick in female-led angel investing—a result partly fueled by increased discourse surrounding once-taboo subjects like menopause alongside financial empowerment discussions among women everywhere. With significant wealth transfers anticipated over coming years—and data backing higher success rates among women-led companies—the stage is set for community-focused business growth steered by informed female investors.

Education plays a crucial role here; understanding responsible investing principles can transform how future generations approach wealth management.

Influencers: Bridging Creativity & Investment
Influencers are evolving beyond brand endorsements—they're becoming savvy investors themselves or even creating independent brands rooted in sustainability principles. Their dual roles add depth to their influence while diversifying their portfolios—an evolution made possible through social media channels that remain central communication tools for both personal branding and professional ventures alike.

Jess herself harnesses these platforms effectively—not just promoting her work but engaging actively with communities interested in venture capitalism or seeking mentorship opportunities within this space.

Conclusion: Creator Economy Meets Investment World
As our session concluded, Jess shared her excitement about intertwining creator economy dynamics with traditional investment frameworks—an intersection promising innovative outcomes benefiting all stakeholders involved.

For aspiring entrepreneurs or investors tuning in today—or anyone fascinated by shifting paradigms within venture capital—there lies immense value in following thought leaders like Jess from Shine Ventures who dare challenge norms while lighting paths toward inclusive prosperity through mindful investment practices.

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:12 What inspired you to become a VC?01:07 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?02:41 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?03:36 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?09:01 How do people contact you?09:30 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Jess Hunichen and Emily Ward are the Co-Founders of the global Talent Management Agency, Shine Talent Group, founded in 2015 with offices in Los Angeles, Toronto and London. Built on the premise of collaboration over competition, Shine has grown a reputation for being an ally to both talent and brands bringing impactful campaigns and creative solutions. In 2023 Jess and Emily launched Shine Ventures as a vehicle to share their experience and invest in bold founders with potential for global reach and market disruption.

Guest Contact:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jesshunichen

Fund Information:We use our marketing and branding expertise to amplify and drive growth. Through launching and growing multiple successful ventures, Jess Hunichen and Emily Ward know what works and are using that know how to accelerate momentum for other founders. The fund focuses on creator economy, consumer lifestyle and wellness. Shine Ventures will release its niche focus annually based on their proprietary trend research.

Fund Site:https://www.shineventures.co/

Fund Contact:https://www.instagram.com/shineventures/

Like, Share and Stay connected via social media
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/femalevclab/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/femalevclab
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@femalevclab
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@femalevclab

View Details

ShowNotes for Female VC Lab Podcast with Genevieve Gilbreath of Springfield Ventures
Episode Summary: In this episode, we welcome Genevieve Gilbreath, Co-Founder and GP at Springfield Ventures. She shares her journey from entrepreneur to venture capitalist, the mission behind Springfield Ventures, and insights into the changing landscape of VC investing.

Key Points Discussed:
Genevieve's Background: The transition from a successful entrepreneur in the consumer product space to founding a venture capital firm after running an accelerator program. * Springfield Ventures' Formation: Teaming up with Dan Graham, another consumer entrepreneur turned investor; they raised $27 million surpassing their initial $20 million target. * Investment Thesis: Focusing on early-stage consumer brands that enhance life at home – ranging across food, beverage, durable goods, health & wellness – as well as tech platforms supporting these sectors. They typically write checks between $250k to $2 million for Seed to Series A rounds. * Personal Interests: Despite being heavily involved in work-related activities, Genevieve enjoys listening to fantasy novels with her son and watching films like "Godzilla vs Kong." * Future of Venture Capital*: Expectations for more fluidity in investments over the next 18–24 months following a period of cautiousness due to market conditions. Anticipating smarter capital allocation rather than pre-correction frenzies.

Contact Information: Listeners can reach out via their website submission form or connect with Genevieve directly through LinkedIn.

Closing Remarks: Host thanks Genevieve Gilbreath for sharing her experiences and perspectives on venture capitalism within the female-led investment community.

Chapters00:00 Introduction
00:17 What inspired you to become a VC?
01:42 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?
03:00 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?
04:03 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?
04:56 How do people contact you?
05:21 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Genevieve Gilbreath has been an active investor and entrepreneur in the consumer products space in Austin and globally for the last 15 years. Passionate about the success of consumer brand entrepreneurs in Austin and beyond, in 2019 Genevieve became a founding board member and was President of Naturally Austin, a non-profit supporting CPG entrepreneurs. Today, as a founding partner at Springdale, she is a champion of early-stage consumer investing, including investments in Feastables, Mr. Beast’s better-for-you snack brand, better-for-you Mac and Cheese brand GOODLES, and ready-to-drink cocktail BEATBOX which recently signed a deal with eight-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated, multi-platinum singer, songwriter, designer, and philanthropist Avril Lavigne, amongst others. Genevieve is also a frequent speaker and contributor to industry topics and events on venture capital, early-stage consumer investing, CPG, food & beverage, and beauty trends.

Guest Contact:* LinkedIn: Genevieve G. Gilbreath

Fund Information:Founded in 2019, Springdale Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas that invests in transformational consumer brands. A champion of early-stage consumer brand investing, the fund’s portfolio focuses on food, beverage, pet, health and beauty sectors. Notable investments include Feastables, Mr. Beast’s better-for-you snack brand, better for you, yet still delicious GOODLES, ready-to-drink cocktail BEATBOX, and the number one kids book club Literati.

Fund Site:https://www.springdaleventures.com/

Fund Contact:* LinkedIn

Like, Share and Stay connected via social media
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/femalevclab/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/femalevclab
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@femalevclab
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@femalevclab

View Details

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:13 What inspired you to become a VC?01:18 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?03:39 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?06:21 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?07:49 How do people contact you?08:04 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Kristin Gunther is a Partner at Revolution Growth. Kristin brings over 15 years of experience in private equity, finance, and operations to Revolution Growth. Prior to joining Revolution, she spent five years at Perseus LLC, most recently as Vice President, where she worked with portfolio companies and management teams on growth strategies, operating and finance matters, and exit planning. She began her career as an investment banking analyst at Rothschild Inc. in New York, NY and as a research associate at CRT Capital Group in Stamford, CT. She is on the board of Scopely, serves as a board observer for Carbon Robotics, and worked on the exits of FedBid, Handy, and Lolly Wolly Doodle.

Kristin received a B.A. in Economics from Wesleyan University and earned her M.B.A. from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. Kristin is originally from Massachusetts.

Guest Contact:Link to LinkedIn Profile

Fund Information:Revolution seeks to partner with passionate entrepreneurs upending traditional industries with innovative products and services where we believe our unique areas of specialized expertise will help create significant value.

Headquartered in D.C., we are uniquely capable of helping founders navigate the policy and regulatory landscape. Our unparalleled access to policy makers positively impacts our deal flow and value creation. By actively engaging with startup ecosystems across the country, we have built a proprietary network of business, academic, and civic relationships that has proved invaluable to our companies as they expand.

Fund Site:Revolution

Fund Contact:Fund Social Media: https://twitter.com/revolution

Like, Share and Stay connected via social media
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/femalevclab/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/femalevclab
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@femalevclab
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@femalevclab

View Details

E088: Dani Tran: Konvoy

Chapters:00:00 Introduction
00:13 What inspired you to become a VC?
02:28 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?
05:26 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?
06:32 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?
10:02 How do people contact you?
10:18 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Dani is an investor at Konvoy, a VC focused on the technology, infrastructure, and platforms of the gaming and interactive entertainment industries. Dani joined Konvoy's investment team in 2021 and works across the entire lifecycle from sourcing to diligence to supporting founders as a Board Observer. Prior to joining Konvoy, Dani worked for the Corporate Strategy and M&A team at Activision Blizzard and was a consultant at McKinsey & Company.

Guest Contact:Dani Tran can be contacted through the following channels:

LinkedIn: Danielle Tran
Twitter: @DaniKTran

Fund Information:Konvoy is a VC focused on the technology, infrastructure, and platforms of the gaming and interactive entertainment industries.

Fund Site:Fund Site: https://www.konvoy.vc/

Fund Contact:* LinkedIn: Konvoy * Twitter: @konvoyventures

Like, Share and Stay connected via social media
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/femalevclab/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/femalevclab
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@femalevclab
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@femalevclab

View Details

E087: Jennifer Stojkovic: Joyful Ventures
Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:14 What inspired you to become a VC?01:49 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?04:53 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?06:30 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?10:34 How do people contact you?11:44 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Jennifer is the founder of the Vegan Women Summit (VWS), a media and events platform of over 60,000 women founders, investors, and advocates. She is the author of the bestselling book The Future of Food is Female, the world’s first book focused on women in alternative protein. Jennifer is an Independent Director of Natural Order Acquisition Co, a publicly-traded company focused on sustainable protein. She built her career under Ron Conway, Founder of SV Angel. Jennifer worked as the industry’s leading lobbyist for the world’s largest tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Meta.

Guest Contact:https://www.jenniferstojkovic.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferstojkovic/https://twitter.com/jennystojkovichttps://tiktok.com/@jennystojkovichttps://facebook.com/jennystojkovicofficial

Fund Information:Joyful Ventures is an early VC fund driving climate solutions through sustainable protein and food technology. With over 40 years of industry experience, Joyful Ventures aims to drive a revolution in the food industry towards sustainability.

Fund Site: https://www.joyful.vc/

Fund Contact: https://www.joyful.vc/

Like, Share and Stay connected via social media
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/femalevclab/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/femalevclab
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@femalevclab
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@femalevclab

View Details

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:16 What inspired you to become a VC?
03:14 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?
05:19 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?
06:27 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?
08:20 How do people contact you?
08:49 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:
Taylor is a technology investor at General Atlantic where she sources deals, supports portfolio companies as a Board observer and conducts thematic research. Previously, she was a technology investment banker at J.P. Morgan. Before that, she was a software engineer at Facebook and Instagram. She is a graduate of Princeton University.

Guest Contact:
LinkedIn: Taylor Jean-Jacques

Fund Information:
General Atlantic is a global investor with more than four decades of experience providing capital and strategic support for over 500 growth companies. The firm combines a collaborative global approach, sector specific expertise and a long-term investment horizon to partner with great entrepreneurs and management teams to scale innovative businesses.

Fund Site:
General Atlantic

Fund Contact:
General Atlantic

Like, Share and Stay connected via social media
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/femalevclab/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/femalevclab
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@femalevclab
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@femalevclab

View Details

This is our special Formula 1 Series brought to you by F4P Foundation.
E085: Scott Sewell and Hunter Vielock: NuEnergy

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction0:42 What inspired you to get into the energy storage and power business?1:51 How are you creating impact and the motivation behind that impact?3:44 What are you currently learning, listening to or reading these days?4:40 In 2 years, how do you see Artificial Intelligence impacting your industry?6:16 How do people contact you?6:40 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:
Scott Sewell
Executive Vice President and Co-Founder of NuEnergy Storage Technologies . Responsible for company growth of energy solutions in Energy Storage Systems (ESS), Electric Vehicles (EV), Residential Lighting , Industrial Energy Applications, Telecom Battery Backup, Medical and Sealed Lead Acid replacement. Managing worldwide sales, marketing and operations to bring new distributed energy technologies to market.

Vice President of World Wide Sales and Marketing at Everspin Technologies (NASDAQ:MRAM). Responsible for creating the Worldwide market for a new disruptive memory technology, MRAM. Executive level responsibilities for numerous aspects of the company and proven performance to work executive staff to achieve very high levels of growth. Member of the Executive Team that took the company public within 6 years of joining. Responsible for worldwide marketing and driving sales to increase adoption of Toggle and Spin Torque MRAM into the market. Sales and Marketing for discrete MRAM memory, embedded MRAM, magnetic sensors and foundry services.

CEO/President of THT Electronics Company/THT Promo. Distribution of electronics and promotional products to customer.

CEO of a Blue Wireless and Data, a public company (OTC: BWDI). Deployed point to point wireless telecommunication equipment in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Area for residential and business clients. Day to day operations and oversaw all governance as a public company. Tripled client subscriptions for residential and initiated significant growth for business customers.

Hunter Vielock
CEO and Founder of NuEnergy Storage Technologies. NuEnergy is one of the world’s leading suppliers of various high-performance lithium-ion batteries and energy storage technologies. Lithium-ion batteries as a power source are dominating in portable electronics, penetrating the EV market, and on the verge of entering the utility market for grid-energy storage. Our batteries and systems are designed to ensure maximum performance over competitors in the industry.

Prior to founding NuEnergy, Hunter was a key principal at West Associates, where he was a Top Gun sales award-winner for multiple years and turned small, underperforming territories into high growth regions by leading sales teams to reach aggressive goals.

Hunter is a decisive, creative thinker who always focuses on the big picture while moving sales teams forward to whatever is best for the company, customers and employees.

Guest Contact:
Scott Sewell:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-sewell-718ba810/

Hunter Vielock:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/huntervielock/

Fund Information:
NuEnergy is one of the world’s leading suppliers of various high-performance lithium-ion batteries and energy storage technologies. Lithium-ion batteries as a power source are dominating in portable electronics, penetrating the EV market, and on the verge of entering the utility market for grid-energy storage. Our batteries and systems are designed to ensure maximum performance over competitors in the industry.

Fund Site:
https://nuenergy.net/

Fund Contact:
https://nuenergy.net/contact/Support The StreamDIRECT SUPPORT https://femalevclab.com/donateBUY ME A COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/femalevclabMERCH STORE https://teespring.com/stores/trailynFOLLOW US https://www.femalevclab.com/follow/OFFICIAL PODCAST WEBSITE https://femalevclab.com

Like, Share and Stay connected via social media
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/femalevclab/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/femalevclab
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@femalevclab
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@femalevclab

View Details

This is our special Formula 1 Series brought to you by F4P Foundation.
E084: Bill Wyland: Bill Wyland Galleries

Chapters:0:00 Introduction0:24 So what inspired you to get interested in arts and technology and all the impactful things that you do?1:08 How are you creating impact and the motivation behind that impact?1:52 As far as like the different types of art, is there some type of evolution in the actual materials of art, like the way paints are used and paints are made now?2:48 What are you currently learning, listening to or reading these days?5:18 In 2 years, how do you see Artificial Intelligence impacting your industry?6:17 How do people contact you?8:31 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Bill Wyland, the driving force behind the gallery’s operations, was born in 1958 in Dearborn, Michigan. He has three brothers, Robert, Steve and Tom, and without even lifting a brush, has given the family name presence in the art world. In the late 1980’s, William A. Wyland, known to most as Bill, opened his first gallery in Hawaii in the rustic town of Haleiwa on Oahu’s North Shore. That gallery was a showcase of another family member, Robert Wyland, the pioneer of the marine art movement.

Art galleries and retail stores
Retail real-estate development
Builds, manages,creates, distributes and markets established world-class premium brands.
Business consulting

Guest Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-wyland-8b12605/

Fund Information:
Previously located on Front Street in Lahaina, Hawaii on the spectacular island of Maui. Bill Wyland Galleries showcases a wide variety of more than 25 world-renowned local and international artists. Owner and founder Bill Wyland hand selected the best new and established talent of the Pacific and placed them under one roof in the historic Lahaina theater building. The immense gallery now houses over 25 different world-renowned international and local artists.

Fund Contact:https://billwylandgalleries.com/

Fund Site:https://billwylandgalleries.com/donate-to-the-maui-fire-relief-efforts
https://www.lovethesea.org/fire-relief.html

Like, Share and Stay connected via social media
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/femalevclab/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/femalevclab
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@femalevclab
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@femalevclab

View Details

This is our special Formula 1 Series brought to you by F4P Foundation
E083: Mike Dinsdale, CFA: Akkadian

Chapters:0:00 Introduction0:19 What inspired you to become a technology investor? What was the motivation of that for you?1:01 How are you creating an impact now and what's the motivation behind that impact?1:48 What are you currently learning, listening to or reading these days?2:44 In 2 years, how do you see Artificial Intelligence impacting your industry?4:46 How do people contact you?4:56 Close - Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:
Mike Dinsdale, Managing Director, Akkadian Ventures
* During 20+ years as CFO, secured over $1.8b in financing, created 100b+ in Value, and created 3 Brands with instant recognition: DocuSign, DoorDash, and Gusto * Angel investor in 50+ tech companies * Co-Founder of Plum Partners SPAC Platform * Currently a board member for various software companies and WildAid * BS from the University of Western Ontario and an MBA from McMaster University * CFA Designation

Guest Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikedins/

Fund Information:For more than a decade, Akkadian has pioneered secondary and opportunistic investments in growth-stage technology companies.

Fund Site:https://akkadian.vc/

Fund Contact:
https://akkadian.vc/

Raise Global:https://www.raiseglobal.co/Support The StreamDIRECT SUPPORT https://femalevclab.com/donateBUY ME A COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/femalevclabMERCH STORE https://teespring.com/stores/trailynFOLLOW US https://www.femalevclab.com/follow/OFFICIAL PODCAST WEBSITE https://femalevclab.com

Like, Share and Stay connected via social media
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/femalevclab/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/femalevclab
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@femalevclab
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@femalevclab

View Details

E082: Jenna Bryant: Embedded Ventures

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:17 What inspired you to become a VC?02:58 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?07:01 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?09:47 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?10:24 How do people contact you?11:36 Thank youFeatured Guest Bio:Co-Founder, CEO & General Partner, Embedded Ventures // Co-Founder, KittyCAD

Jenna Bryant is Co-Founder, CEO and General Partner at Embedded Ventures, a next generation venture capital firm that takes a commercial-first approach to investing in early-stage startups with applications that can serve the Department of Defense. Jenna is also the Co-Founder of KittyCAD, the world’s first and only company to build hardware design infrastructure for the internet. KittyCAD was incubated by Embedded Ventures.

Fund Information:Launched in 2020, Embedded Ventures is a next generation venture capital firm investing in national security space startups beyond launch. With a thesis that takes a commercial-first approach to investing in early-stage startups with applications that can serve the Department of Defense, Embedded has a first-of-its-kind partnership with the United States Space Force.

Fund Site:https://www.embedded.ventures/

Fund Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/company/embedded-ventures/?viewAsMember=truehttps://twitter.com/EmbeddedVChttps://www.instagram.com/embeddedventures/?hl=enhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBj2uu0rHlifI2ecdFS4EBw/about

Guest Contact:https://www.jennabryant.comhttps://www.instagram.com/jenna_bryant/?hl=enhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jennabryant/https://twitter.com/Jenna_Bryant

Like, Share and Stay connected via social media
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/femalevclab/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/femalevclab
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@femalevclab
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@femalevclab

View Details

E081: Joanna Kuang: Illumen Capital

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:19 What inspired you to become a VC?01:47 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?05:33 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?13:00 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?20:20 How do people contact you?20:50 Thank youFeatured Guest Bio:Joanna has dedicated her career to expanding access to capital in pursuit of inclusive justice for and alongside under-resourced people of color. She believes a combination of public, private, and philanthropic capital drives the most meaningful impact when coordinated towards a shared systemic goal.

Prior to Illumen Capital, Joanna advised and built capacity for local, state, and federal governments on driving taxpayer dollars towards meaningful results for overlooked and underestimated communities at Third Sector Capital Partners. She began her career at Wellington Management, defining and managing impact for the institutional asset manager's sole impact investing portfolio.

Ms. Kuang earned a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University, and as a Robertson Scholar, she was also dual enrolled at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Fund Information:Illumen Capital is an impact fund of funds addressing systemic inequity by reducing racial and gender bias in investing.

Working closely with the world’s leading social psychologists at Stanford SPARQ, we combine investment capital with evidence-based tools and training designed to reduce implicit racial and gender bias in order to unlock latent return and multiply impact.

We believe an inclusive and optimal asset management industry will be the cornerstone of an equal and equitable future.Fund Site:https://www.illumencapital.com/

Fund Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/company/illumen-capital/

Guest Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-kuang-7064a279/Support The StreamDIRECT SUPPORT https://femalevclab.com/donateBUY ME A COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/femalevclabMERCH STORE https://teespring.com/stores/trailynFOLLOW US https://www.femalevclab.com/follow/OFFICIAL PODCAST WEBSITE https://femalevclab.com

Like, Share and Stay connected via social media
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/femalevclab/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/femalevclab
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@femalevclab
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@femalevclab

View Details

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:20 What inspired you to become a VC?
01:14 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?07:00 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?
12:17 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?
15:01 How do people contact you?
15:22 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:
May Li is the founder and managing director of J20 Ventures, a solo woman-run VC firm investing in Zillennial markets. After starting the firm from her dorm room as a junior in 2017, she deployed Fund I straight out of college. As a first-gen AAPI woman, and a Zillennial herself, May’s unique perspective inspires her successful investment strategy.

Fund Information:
J20 Ventures is a cross-border early stage fund investing in companies founded by and for Gen Z and Millennials – specifically those building the future of retail, edtech, and healthcare. The firm’s first fund generated 56% net IRR and 5x the fund at the three-year mark with a portfolio of well-known brands like 99minutos, Burrow, Career Karma, Gainful, and EdSights.

Fund Site:
https://www.j20ventures.com/

Fund Contact:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/j20-ventures/

Guest Contact:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/may-li-657920186/Support The StreamDIRECT SUPPORT https://femalevclab.com/donateBUY ME A COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/femalevclabMERCH STORE https://teespring.com/stores/trailynFOLLOW US https://www.femalevclab.com/follow/OFFICIAL PODCAST WEBSITE https://femalevclab.com

Like, Share and Stay connected via social media
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/femalevclab/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/femalevclab
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@femalevclab
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@femalevclab

View Details

E079: Susan Moring: Cortado Ventures

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:16 What inspired you to become a VC?01:21 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?04:17 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?07:41 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?13:21 How do people contact you?14:03 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Susan Moring is a Principal at Cortado Ventures, an Oklahoma City-based, early-stage VC firm. At Cortado, Susan manages all aspects of the investment process including sourcing, due diligence, and post-investment portco support. A startup enthusiast, Susan has spent her career supporting entrepreneurs and the growth of Oklahoma’s startup ecosystem.

Fund Information:Cortado Ventures is a venture capital firm that’s working to define the Midcontinent’s success story for generations to come. We go beyond raising capital to support businesses – our team’s deep experience as leaders and innovators helps our portfolio companies accelerate their growth through strategic planning, training, and guidance.

Fund Site:https://cortado.ventures/https://twitter.com/cortadoventureshttps://www.linkedin.com/company/cortadoventures/

Fund Contact:https://twitter.com/cortadoventureshttps://www.linkedin.com/company/cortadoventures/

Guest Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanmoring/https://twitter.com/susan_bethSupport The StreamDIRECT SUPPORT https://femalevclab.com/donateBUY ME A COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/femalevclabMERCH STORE https://teespring.com/stores/trailynFOLLOW US https://www.femalevclab.com/follow/OFFICIAL PODCAST WEBSITE https://femalevclab.com

Like, Share and Stay connected via social media
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/femalevclab/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/femalevclab
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@femalevclab
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@femalevclab

View Details

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:16 What inspired you to become a VC?
07:18 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?
11:19 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?
14:32 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?
17:13 How do people contact you?
17:26 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:
Claude is a Vice President of Volition Capital’s internet and consumer investment team. She joined Volition in 2019 and focuses on investments in e-commerce and tech-enabled services, with sector interests in digital health, telco, and consumer subscription services.

Fund Information:
Volition Capital is a growth equity firm established in 2010 that focuses on investing in high-growth, founder-owned technology businesses across the U.S. and Canada that generally have between $5 million and $50 million in revenue with demonstrated capital efficiency.

Fund Site:
https://www.volitioncapital.com/

Fund Contact:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/volition-capital https://twitter.com/volitioncapital?lang=en

Guest Contact:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudedejocas/ https://www.volitioncapital.com/team/claude-de-jocas/Support The StreamDIRECT SUPPORT https://femalevclab.com/donateBUY ME A COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/femalevclabMERCH STORE https://teespring.com/stores/trailynFOLLOW US https://www.femalevclab.com/follow/OFFICIAL PODCAST WEBSITE https://femalevclab.com

Like, Share and Stay connected via social media
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/femalevclab/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/femalevclab
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@femalevclab
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@femalevclab

View Details

Chapters:00:00 Introduction
00:22 What inspired you to become a VC?
01:51 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?
04:41 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?
07:56 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?
14:58 How do people contact you?
15:32 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Alison has been investing in consumer brands for nearly a decade. Prior to Able, Alison was a General Partner & Managing Director at CircleUp Growth Partners where she led investments in early stage consumer brands. Before CircleUp, Alison was a Vice President at TSG Consumer where she invested in consumer and retail brands and worked closely with the e-commerce investments in their portfolio. She spent a year as an operator on the executive team of Backcountry.com, one of the TSG portfolio companies. Prior to TSG, Alison worked in investment banking at J.P. Morgan in the Consumer & Retail Group. Alison has served on the Board of Directors of Kosas Cosmetics, Nutpods and Mented Cosmetics. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University and lives in San Francisco with her husband.

Guest Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisonryu/

Fund Information:Able is an investment fund focused on health & wellbeing. We aim to support passionate entrepreneurs building visionary brands in positive living that will make the daily lives of consumers healthier, happier and more meaningful. We seek to partner with companies that are narrowing The Wellness Gap: the quantifiable delta that has grown dramatically over the past two decades as economic indicators such as GDP per capita have increased while measures of overall wellbeing, including physical and mental health, have stagnated or decreased. We are most focused on overlooked or stigmatized communities that have resulted in underserved markets. These are the areas where we see opportunity: disruptive healthcare, care economy, consumer wellbeing and connection & community.

Fund Site:https://ablepartners.nyc/

Fund Contact:https://www.instagram.com/laud_able/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/ablepartners/

Here's a summary of some key highlights from the episode:

Choice and Value: Founders now have more options when it comes to selecting who they work with and the value they can receive. Mega funds may not offer the same personalized support as smaller specialized funds.
Challenges of Large Funds: While having a $1 billion AUM is desirable, managing a large amount of money and many companies can be complex. Deploying capital strategically requires careful consideration.
Closing the Wellness Gap: Able Partners focuses on health and well-being, supporting early-stage companies in the positive living industry. They aim to partner with companies that are addressing the quantifiable difference between economic growth and the decline in overall well-being measures.
Integration of AI: Companies in Able Partners' portfolio are exploring the integration of AI into their product roadmaps. However, there are important questions to address regarding differentiation, unique IP, scalability, and ethical concerns.
Fragmentation of VC Landscape: The speaker believes that the VC landscape is becoming more fragmented, with a shift towards specialist funds and away from large mega funds. This shift provides founders with more specific expertise and clarity in choosing their partners.
Generative AI's Impact: The speaker predicts that generative AI will significantly impact the PC ecosystem and all aspects of life within the next two years. It's an area they find fascinating and have recently had discussions about.
Able's Investment Focus: Able Partners actively invests in underserved markets to address gaps in healthcare, with a focus on mental health, women's health, metabolic health, elder care, and the care-giving ecosystem.
Implications of GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer): The speaker discusses the implications of GPT technology on content companies and intellectual property, highlighting the challenges faced by content creators in determining originality and protecting their works.
Inspiration from Podcasts: The speaker expresses their appreciation for the power of listening and highlights valuable insights gained from podcasts such as Liz Moody's "Healthier Together," Peter Atia's podcast, and the Huberman Lab.
Career Journey: From investment banking at JPMorgan to private equity at TSG Consumer, the speaker found their passion for building and shifted their focus to earlier stage investing in venture capital. They now wear an investment hat while working closely with founders in their portfolio.

We hope this summary gives you a taste of the informative and thought-provoking discussion we had with Alison Ryu of Able Partners.

View Details

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:47 What inspired you to become a VC?
05:06 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?
10:49 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?
15:07 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?
18:27 How do people contact you?
19:09 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:
Marcus Glover is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Lockstep Ventures, a venture capital firm that seeks to address issues that perpetuate racial inequality in the U.S.

Marcus has a mission to reimagine equity for Black America and is dedicated to investing and advising Black and women-led companies that are often overlooked, underfunded and underserved. As a leader of Lockstep Ventures, he has turned his passion into meaningful change while also inspiring and empowering a systematic shift in tandem with delivering investor returns.

In addition to his work with Lockstep Ventures, Marcus serves on the National Board of Directors of Defy Ventures, which advocates for criminal justice reform and lowering recidivism by building on incarcerated men and women's natural talents through entrepreneurship business ownership. Marcus also serves on the Time@100 Advisory Board.

Fund Information:
Lockstep Ventures was conceived with the goal of reimagining equity and impacting racial disparities. Our purpose is to work to inspire and empower systemic change in tandem with delivering robust investor returns.

Fund Site:
https://www.lockstepventures.com/

Fund Contact:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/lockstep-ventures/

Guest Contact:
https://www.marcusglover.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusglo/

View Details

Chapters:00:00 Introduction
00:26 What inspired you to become a part of Milken and to lead this financial institute?
01:56 Tell me a little bit more about the Lifetime financial security program and the motivation behind that program?
12:12 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?
14:27 Cheryl in two years, Your platform, how would you define that as a success in two years?
16:46 How do people contact you?
17:47 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Cheryl Evans is a Director in MI Finance at the Milken Institute. She leads the new Lifetime Financial Security Program. Evans is an attorney and has worked in securities, finance, and business. She worked for 10 years at CFA Institute developing content, helping to lead their Future of Finance global initiative, and working in their Enforcement area. She was at Pensions & Investments magazine briefly. Evans spent 11 years at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission working in Enforcement, and also in Trading and Markets and in Examinations. She was a part of the WorldCom team. She spent a number of years at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce focused on financial markets, securities litigation, other business litigation issues. She has held both civil and criminal litigation roles at the U.S. Department of Justice and was a federal judicial law clerk. She holds a second law degree in transnational business practice. In addition, she is trained as a wellness coach and has focused on transitions and chronic illness. And she sits on non-profit boards.

Fund Information:Milken Institute - MI Finance, Center for Financial Markets. Works to use finance as a force for good and to ensure that the capital markets are available to those who need them when they need them. Its program areas include - Inclusive Capitalism, Public Finance and Climate Resilient Infrastructure, FinTech, Financial Innovations Lab, Small Business Initiatives, Developing Markets, and Lifetime Financial Security. It also brings in HBCU scholars, global finance regulators, and other interns.

https://milkeninstitute.org/centers/center-for-financial-markets

Fund Site:www.milkeninstitute.org

Fund Contact:
www.milkeninstitute.org

Guest Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/in/evanscheryllesq/

Lifetime Financial Security Report:
https://milkeninstitute.org/report/shifting-retirement-paradigm-financial-security

View Details

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:30 What inspired you to become a VC?01:00 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?02:28 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?02:53 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?03:33 How do people contact you?03:45 Thank youFeatured Guest Bio:A high-tech executive and serial entrepreneur who has been founding, leading and growing innovative companies for more than 25 years. Kim Folsom is the founder of Founders First Community Development Corporation (fka. LIFT Development Enterprises, Inc, small business growth accelerator, and founder and CEO of Founders First Capital Partners, the largest minority and women owned direct investor of revenue-based funding and advisory support, as well as FUUUSE.CMNTY.com the first online community for fueling underserved small business expansion. Our mission to is to fund and growth and advocate for diverse founder led, underserved, revenue-generating employer-based micro small businesses ($50K to $5M), secure funding and achieve exponential growth. As a social entrepreneur, Ms. Folsom is dedicated to leveraging the power of market forces and sound business practices to address disparities in revenue and job growth among businesses led by underrepresented founders. She has raised more than $30 million in institutional venture financing, and has founded or served as a key executive for multiple successful ventures, including showUhow (acquired by Sellpoints), DriveCam (now Lytx) and Seminarsource. Before devoting her energies to entrepreneurship, Ms. Folsom was an executive at National Dispatch Center, Luce Forward, Alltel Systematics and Great American First

Fund Information:Founders First Capital Partners, LLC., (FFCP) is headquartered in San Diego, CA and is making history with the launch of the first revenue-based financier and online accelerator focused on growing thriving million dollar small businesses.Founders empowers underserved groups of business owners by providing them with access to non-dilutive growth capital, expertise and resources to enable them to build sustainable, profitable, and accretive legacy businesses. Small business owners seeking to partner with Founders for assistance with growth and funding their business can begin by participating one of our quarterly Business Growth Bootcamps. Want to know more? Contact me.

Fund Site:https://foundersfirstcapitalpartners.com/

Fund Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/company/founders-first-capital-partners/

Guest Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimtfolsom/

View Details

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:23 What inspired you to become a VC?02:39 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?04:09 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?05:28 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?07:20 How do people contact you?07:29 Thank youFeatured Guest Bio:Olivia is Global Head of Teachers' Venture Growth (TVG). Olivia has led TVG since it was formed in 2019 and was previously a Managing Director in OTPP's Infrastructure team. She began her career as a project engineer.

Fund Information:Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG) focuses on late-stage venture and growth equity investments in cutting-edge technology companies worldwide. We partner with founders with bold missions, looking to expand their product offering, scale geographically, and become leaders in their markets. We bring long-term thinking and active investing to help build better businesses and a better world. We think globally and act locally through our direct presence in San Francisco, Toronto, London and Hong Kong.

TVG is part of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board, a global investor with net assets of $247.2 billion as at December 31, 2022. We invest in more than 50 countries in a broad array of assets including public and private equities, fixed income, credit, commodities, natural resources, infrastructure, real estate and venture growth to deliver retirement income for 336,000 working members and pensioners.

Fund Site:
https://www.otpp.com/en-ca/ https://www.otpp.com/en-ca/investments/our-investments/teachers-venture-growth/

Fund Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/company/otpp/

Guest Contact:https://www.otpp.com/en-ca/investments/our-investments/teachers-venture-growth/

View Details

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:14 What inspired you to become a VC?01:38 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?02:29 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?04:00 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?05:43 How do people contact you?05:29 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:
Melanie is a Vice President at Volition Capital who works on the software team. Prior to Volition, she worked as a technology investor at Summit Partners and began her career as an investment banking analyst at Aeris Partners. She graduated from Babson College with a BS in Business Management.

Fund Information:
Volition Capital is a Boston-based growth equity firm that principally invests in high-growth, founder-owned companies across the software, Internet, and consumer sectors. Founded in 2010, Volition has over $1.7 billion in assets under management and has invested in and/or provided sub-advisory advice to more than 40 companies in the United States and Canada. The firm selectively partners with founders to help them achieve their fullest aspirations for their businesses.

Fund Site:
https://www.volitioncapital.com/

Fund Contact:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/741214/admin/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/volitioncapital
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/volitioncapital/

Guest Contact:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-jordan-87595268/Website Bio: https://www.volitioncapital.com/team/melanie-jordan/

View Details

E071: Aneesha Raghunathan: Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE)

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:15 What inspired you to become a VC?01:24 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?03:42 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?5:35 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?8:32 How do people contact you?09:22 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:
Aneesha is an investor at Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE) focusing on data, enterprise software and has industry expertise across fintech and healthcare. Previously, Aneesha was a Venture Capital investor at Bessemer Venture Partners and a Private Equity investor at TA Associates. She also spent time as an Operator-in-Residence at Alleycorp, where she worked with Founders/CEOs on key operational growth initiatives. Aneesha graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business

Fund Information:Susquehanna Growth Equity, (SGE) is an entrepreneur-centric growth equity fund with flexible capital and time horizons. SGE is exclusively focused on growth-stage software, internet and information services companies. The firm has invested over three billion dollars in 80+ market-leading technology companies over the last 15 years and has portfolio companies across the US, Canada, Europe, and Israel. SGE is backed by a unique and patient source of capital, enabling the firm to give entrepreneurs and management teams freedom and flexibility to maximize growth. To learn more, please visit www.sgep.com.

Fund Site:www.sgep.com

Fund Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/company/sgep/

Guest Contact:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aneesha-raghunathan-40827624/

Our InfoOFFICIAL PODCAST WEBSITE https://femalevclab.comFOLLOW US https://www.femalevclab.com/follow/ABOUT US https://trailyn.simple.ink/

Support The StreamMERCH STORE https://teespring.com/stores/trailynDIRECT SUPPORT https://femalevclab.com/donateBUY ME A COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trailyn

Social MediaINSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/trailynven/TWITTER https://twitter.com/TrailynVen

View Details

E070: Kimberley Nixon: Open Venture Capital

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:23 What inspired you to become a VC?01:23 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?03:44 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?04:45 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?07:58 How do people contact you?08:29 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Kimberley is Founder and Managing Partner at Open Venture Capital (OVC), an early stage, consumer venture capital fund. The fund invests in health and wellness brands that have the ability to expand from product to platform via a unique product, marketing and/or community engagement approach. Open Venture Capital began as Open Venture Studio, and for several founders we continue to invest time and expertise to help build a clear value proposition and a path to scalability before investing capital.

Fund Information:Open Venture Capital is about putting in the work to invest in startups and help them scale, especially companies in the wellness, sport, fitness, and consumer technology industries. The venture capital firm is Black-led and woman-owned by Kimberley Nixon. Follow Open Venture Capital online and on LinkedIn for the latest updates.

Fund Site:Startups currently seeking to raise can fill out Open Venture Capital’s pitch form here: https://bit.ly/3KHUgsA

Fund Contact:https://openventure.capital/#about-section

Guest Contact:https://openventure.capital

View Details

E069: Kulika Weizman: Creative Ventures
Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:20 What inspired you to become a VC?01:58 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?07:26 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?09:29 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?14:08 How do people contact you?14:45 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Kulika Weizman is a principal at Creative Ventures. She leverages her operational experience as a synbio co-founder & CEO and her scientific expertise to lead investments in early-stage deep tech companies solving humanity’s most critical crises: rising healthcare costs, climate change, and labor shortages.

Fund Information:Creative Ventures is a deep tech venture firm investing in early-stage companies solving humanity’s most critical crises. Led by a team of world-class experts, our deep tech acumen is informed by rigorous research, unmatched market understanding, and the dedication to lead our companies to success.

Fund Site:https://creativeventures.vc/

Fund Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/company/creative-ventures-vc/

Guest Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/in/kulika-weizman/

Support The StreamMERCH STORE https://teespring.com/stores/trailynDIRECT SUPPORT https://femalevclab.com/donateBUY ME A COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trailyn

Our InfoOFFICIAL PODCAST WEBSITE https://femalevclab.comFOLLOW US https://www.femalevclab.com/follow/ABOUT US https://trailyn.simple.ink/INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/trailynven/TWITTER https://twitter.com/TrailynVen

View Details

E067: Saaya Nath: Jump Capital

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:20 What inspired you to become a VC?
01:56 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?
03:54 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?
04:54 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?
08:04 How do people contact you?
08:28 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Saaya Nath is a Partner at Jump Capital. She joined Jump Capital in 2020 and leads new venture capital investment opportunities. Prior to joining Jump, Saaya worked as a strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group, where she spent time in the Private Equity practice and across a variety of strategy and operations projects. Saaya attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earning a BS in Computer Engineering. Her areas of focus include Creator economy, Future of Work, Enterprise Education, Web3 and Future of Commerce.

Fund Information:Jump Capital is a thesis-led, sector-focused, and operating-centric venture capital firm specializing in Seed/Series A. Jump invests in data-driven technology companies within the FinTech, B2B SaaS, IT/Data Infrastructure, and Media sectors. With offices in Chicago and New York, Jump provides advocacy and support through a platform of institutional-level resources for entrepreneurs.

Fund Site:https://jumpcap.com/

Fund Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/company/2833742/admin/
https://twitter.com/jumpcapital

Guest Contact:https://twitter.com/saayanath
https://www.linkedin.com/in/saaya-nath-12ba82a3/

Support The Stream
DIRECT SUPPORT https://femalevclab.com/donateBUY ME A COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trailynMERCH STORE https://teespring.com/stores/trailyn

Our Info
OFFICIAL PODCAST WEBSITE https://femalevclab.comFOLLOW US https://www.femalevclab.com/follow/ABOUT US https://trailyn.simple.ink/INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/trailynven/TWITTER https://twitter.com/TrailynVen

View Details

E067: Tasneem Dohadwala: Excelestar Ventures
Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:23 What inspired you to become a VC?01:07 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?02:26 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?04:11 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?07:17 How do people contact you?08:05 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Tasneem Dohadwala is the Founding Partner of Excelestar Ventures. Some of her notable investments include Augmenix (acq. by Boston Scientific), nVision (acq. by Boston Scientific), Conformal Medical, and Brixton Biosciences. Tasneem is also a Managing Partner of Golden Seeds, and has always been excited to further women leadership in business.

Fund Information:Excelestar Ventures generally invests in a strong team leading a B2B company, either in tech or medical devices, with a clear, disruptive technology. Excelestar believes in partnering with its companies and being a true resource to them; helping produce growth and sustainable profits from a long-term perspective.

Fund Site:https://excelestarventures.com

Fund Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/company/excelestar-ventures-llc/about/

Guest Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasneem-dohadwala-ab0398196/

Support The Stream
MERCH STORE https://teespring.com/stores/trailynDIRECT SUPPORT https://femalevclab.com/donateBUY ME A COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trailyn

Social Media
ABOUT US https://trailyn.simple.ink/FOLLOW US https://www.femalevclab.com/follow/INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/trailynven/TWITTER https://twitter.com/TrailynVenOFFICIAL PODCAST WEBSITE https://femalevclab.com

View Details

E066: Ashley Aydin: VamosVentures

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:27 What inspired you to become a VC?04:54 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?07:29 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?12:56 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?16:21 How do people contact you?16:52 Thank youFeatured Guest Bio: Ashley is a Principal at VamosVentures. She started her career at Morgan Stanley in Capital Markets and moved into strategic roles at Shoptiques.com, Saks Fifth Avenue and Estee Lauder. She was previously an investor at Brand Foundry Ventures, Founders Factory and Dorm Room Fund. Ashley holds a BA from Brown University and an MBA from MIT Sloan.

Fund Information:VamosVentures sees a future where entrepreneurs across America have equal access to the resources needed to bring their ideas into the world by supporting diverse investments. We make initial investments ranging between $500k to $2m+ with the ability to lead, depending on the round and opportunity.

Fund Site:https://www.vamosventures.com/

Fund Contact:https://twitter.com/vamosventures https://www.linkedin.com/company/vamosventures/ https://www.instagram.com/vamosventures

Guest Contact:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyaydin
Twitter - https://twitter.com/ashaydin

Our InfoOFFICIAL PODCAST WEBSITE https://femalevclab.comFOLLOW US https://www.femalevclab.com/follow/ABOUT US https://trailyn.simple.ink/

Support The StreamMERCH STORE https://teespring.com/stores/trailynDIRECT SUPPORT https://femalevclab.com/donateBUY ME A COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trailyn

Social MediaINSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/trailynven/TWITTER https://twitter.com/TrailynVen

View Details

E065: Cecilia Lenk: Netcapital Inc
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction00:27 What inspired you to become a VC?01:50 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?03:56 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?10:39 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?09:35 How do people contact you?10:05 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:
Dr. Cecilia Lenk, CEO of Netcapital Inc., built Netcapital on the commitment to bring awareness and provide guidance to underrepresented founders including women and minorities, through its funding portal and advisory services. Cecilia is an entrepreneur truly passionate about women’s access to careers in finance and technology, two of the largest industries lacking diversity.

Cecilia’s mission is to empower innovators and entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds to be successful in their own endeavors to provide solutions. She wants to help facilitate this by leveling the playing field for access to capital and strategic resources to create more inclusive capitalism.

Fund Information:
Netcapital Inc. is a publicly traded fintech company dedicated to democratizing private capital markets and empowering entrepreneurs to succeed. It helps companies at all stages to build, grow and fund their businesses with a full range of services from strategic advice to raising capital.

Netcapital.com's online private investment platform allows companies to close capital digitally and provides investor access to new investment opportunities.

Through Netcapital Advisors, its team of professional investors and digital marketing experts offer deep expertise across a range of verticals including biotech, technology, and public policy.

Fund Site:https://netcapital.com/https://netcapitalinc.com/

Fund Contact:https://www.facebook.com/Netcapital/https://twitter.com/netcapitalhttps://www.instagram.com/netcapital/https://www.linkedin.com/company/netcapital/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxwsozT-gzwmpewB4IXnRsw

Our Info
MERCH STORE https://teespring.com/stores/trailynFEMALE VC LAB DONATION LINK https://femalevclab.com/donateOFFICIAL WEBSITE https://femalevclab.comBOOKING https://trailyn.com/OFFICIAL PODCAST WEBSITE https://femalevclab.com

Support The Stream
DIRECT SUPPORT https://femalevclab.com/donateBUY ME A COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/femalevclab

Social Media
INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/trailynven/TWITTER https://twitter.com/TrailynVenOFFICIAL NEWSLETTER https://femalevclab.com

View Details

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:16 What inspired you to become a VC?01:47 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?04:04 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?06:06 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?07:43 How do people contact you?07:58 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Lisa Feria is the CEO and Managing Partner of Stray Dog Capital, one of the most prolific and well-recognized venture capital funds in the plant-based market. With more than 45 investments in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Israel, and New Zealand, Stray Dog Capital invests in early-stage food, food-tech, and biotech companies that will transform our food system. Lisa brings more than 20 years of experience in food operations and consumer packaged goods and led billion-dollar brands in multinational companies such as Procter & Gamble and General Mills. Lisa has an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. A Kauffman Fellow (Class 22), Lisa has been selected twice to the “Top 100 Most Influential Latinas” list. A passionate vegan and triathlete, Lisa serves on the boards of Mercy for Animals, the Great Plains SPCA, Miyoko’s Creamery, and Deliciou.

Fund Information:Stray Dog Capital is a venture capital fund investing in innovative, early-stage companies across the food, beverage, and biotechnology sectors that are driving a healthier, humane, and more sustainable future. Stray Dog Capital supports its portfolio of investments with broad experience from its team as entrepreneurs, operators, advisors, and investors.

Fund Site:https://straydogcapital.com/

Fund Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/company/stray-dog-capital/

Support The Stream
DIRECT SUPPORT https://femalevclab.com/donateBUY ME A COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/femalevclab

Social Media
INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/trailynven/TWITTER https://twitter.com/TrailynVenOFFICIAL NEWSLETTER https://femalevclab.com

View Details

E063: Dr. Oksana Malysheva: Sputnik ATX
Chapters:00:00 Introduction
00:22 What inspired you to become a VC?
03:20 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?
06:28 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?
10:39 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?
14:11 How do people contact you?
15:10 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Dr. Oksana Malysheva is the Managing Partner/CEO of Sputnik ATX. Dr. Malysheva previously held top strategic roles at McKinsey and Motorola, and holds a PhD in Physics. She is committed to fueling social innovation solutions, her mission is to create positive social change through education, technology and innovation.

Fund Information:Sputnik ATX is an Austin based VC accelerator that funds founders who go out and change the world. Sputnik’s investment portfolio ranges in industry from revolutionary podcasting analytics to cat care to healthcare fintech. Sputnik’s accelerator program provides start-up training, mentoring, and support to future change-makers and industry disruptors.

Fund Site:www.sputnikatx.comlinkedin.com/company/sputnikatx/

Fund Contact:instagram.com/sputnikatxtwitter.com/SputnikATXfacebook.com/sputnikatx

Oksana's Linksinstagram.com/oksanam_atx/?hl=enlinkedin.com/in/oksana-mindyuk-malysheva-62193a3/twitter.com/Oksana_ATX/status/1470425335120416769

View Details

E062: David Rubenstein: The Carlyle Group

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:41 What inspired you to write this book?
02:06 How did you get into Private Equity?
03:35 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?
04:44 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?
06:09 Have you seen any adjustments in valuations?
07:01 How do people find the book?
07:58 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:
David M. Rubenstein is the New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead, The American Experiment, and The American Story. He is cofounder and cochairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private equity firms. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the National Gallery of Art. He is an original signer of The Giving Pledge and a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy and the MoMA’s David Rockefeller Award. The host of Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein on Bloomberg TV and The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations on Bloomberg TV and PBS, he lives in the Washington, DC, area.

BOOK INFO, PLEASE VISIT: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-to-Invest/David-M-Rubenstein/9781982190309

Fund Information:
The Carlyle Group: As a global investment firm we work together to create long-term value for our investors, companies, shareholders, people and communities.

Fund Site:
https://www.carlyle.com/

Fund Contact:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-to-Invest/David-M-Rubenstein/9781982190309
https://twitter.com/DM_Rubenstein

View Details

E061: Anna Barber: M13
Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:22 What inspired you to become a VC?02:13 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?04:45 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?09:07 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?10:32 How do people contact you?11:18 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Anna Barber is a partner at M13, an LA-based venture capital fund investing in the future of consumer behavior, where she focuses on future of work, ecommerce infrastructure, and Web3. She is also a partner at the Fund LA and was previously the Managing Director of Techstars LA.

Fund Information:M13’s $400M Fund III (oversubscribed, exceeding $275M target) invests in the enabling technologies that power the future of work, health, commerce, and money. We invest more in the infrastructure that powers these broad themes and applications/companies, that reach end users though indirect channels including the physician, employer, and enterprise.

Fund Site:https://m13.co/profile/anna-barber

Fund Contact:https://twitter.com/annawbarberhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/annawbarber/

View Details

Chapters:00:00 Introduction
00:22 What inspired you to become a VC?
02:13 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis
04:45 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days
09:07 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?
10:32 How do people contact you?
11:18 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Ba Minuzzi, CEO of UMANA, is a self-made entrepreneur who leads conscious investing and wealth management for high-net-worth celebrity clients. With UMANA, Ba is redefining wealth through purpose-driven efforts that will create a legacy for the next generation.

Fund Information:UMANA House of Funds (UMANA GP, LLC) is the General Partner of multiple investment vehicles and venture capital funds that we create in-house with $123M in assets under management. The firm is a full-service fund operations platform owned by UMANA Inc, a multi-family office based in San Francisco, CA that focuses on servicing HNWI (High Net Worth Individuals) with a net worth between $10M to $300M.

Fund Site:https://www.umana.family/home

Fund Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/in/baminuzzi/
https://twitter.com/ba_minuzzi?lang=en

Our InfoMERCH STORE https://trailyn.creator-spring.com/
FEMALE VC LAB DONATION LINK https://femalevclab.com/donate
OFFICIAL PODCAST WEBSITE https://femalevclab.com
BOOKING https://trailyn.com/

Support The StreamDIRECT SUPPORT (Includes Crypto) https://femalevclab.com/donate
BUY ME A COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/femalevclab

Social MediaINSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/trailynven/
TWITTER https://twitter.com/TrailynVen
OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER https://femalevclab.com

View Details

E059: Julie Castro Abrams: How Women Invest
Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:19 What inspired you to become a VC?03:21 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?10:34 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?13:07 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?15:19 How do people contact you?15:39 Thank youFeatured Guest Bio:Julie Castro Abrams is Founder and CEO of How Women Lead, a network of 14,000+ top executive women who come together to learn, break barriers to success and make an impact. Using her extensive background as a CEO, entrepreneur, investor and sought-out leadership expert, Julie helps top executive women to harness and activate their power across all aspects of their careers and lives. She is widely recognized for her incredible ability to connect people and facilitate rich conversations that make change happen. As one of our nation’s premier visionary leaders in gender equity and justice, Julie leverages her expansive networks and influence with leaders to affect systems, policy change and to give hope and inspiration to women working to break glass ceilings across our society.

Fund Information:How Women Invest is a venture capital firm investing across two funds that leverages its professional network of 14,000 women to identify high-potential female founders and provide the starter fuel and access to propel these fearless founders to success.

Fund Site:https://www.howwomenlead.com/investlinkedin.com/company/howwomenlead/linkedin.com/company/howwomeninvest/@_howwomenlead / @invest_howinstagram.com/howwomenlead/

Fund Contact:linkedin.com/in/julie-castro-abrams/

Support The Stream
DIRECT SUPPORT (Includes Crypto) https://femalevclab.com/donateBUY ME A COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/femalevclab

Social Media
INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/trailynven/TWITTER https://twitter.com/TrailynVenOFFICIAL NEWSLETTER https://femalevclab.com

View Details

E058: Rebecca Mitchem: Neotribe Ventures

Chapters:00:00 Introduction
00:19 What inspired you to become a VC?
03:18 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?
05:49 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?
09:56 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?
12:00 How do people contact you?
12:38 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Rebecca is a Partner at Neotribe Ventures and co-manages Ignite, a $90M growth-stage fund. Previously, she worked as an investor at J.P.Morgan Asset Management in New York, London, and Frankfurt. The Private Equity Group was a $20Bn+ platform investing across growth equity, co-investments, secondaries, and private equity funds.

Fund Information:Neotribe Ventures manages nearly $450M in assets across three funds focused on early to growth-stage companies and has invested in a diverse set of companies including computational biology, enterprise security, blockchain technologies, cleantech, and more. Rebecca co-manages Ignite, Neotribe’s $90M growth-stage fund, which was recently launched in March 2022.

Fund Site:https://www.neotribe.vc/

Fund Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-mitchem-cfa-79231aa/

Our InfoMERCH STORE https://teespring.com/stores/trailynFEMALE VC LAB DONATION LINK https://femalevclab.com/donateOFFICIAL WEBSITE https://femalevclab.comBOOKING https://trailyn.com/OFFICIAL PODCAST WEBSITE https://femalevclab.com

Support The StreamDIRECT SUPPORT (Includes Crypto) https://femalevclab.com/donateBUY ME A COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/femalevclab

Social MediaINSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/trailynven/TWITTER https://twitter.com/TrailynVenOFFICIAL NEWSLETTER https://femalevclab.com

View Details

E057: Susan Choe: Katalyst Ventures

Chapters:00:00 Introduction
00:26 What inspired you to become a VC?
01:25 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?
03:32 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?
05:52 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?
21:52 How do people contact you?
22:18 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Susan is the founder and General Partner of Katalyst Ventures. An early stage fund catalyzing Applied A.I. start-ups in digital health, financial services, logistics and enterprise operations. Susan has founded and operated data driven technology start-ups and Fortune 500 tech companies over 25 years across U.S and Asia. This includes Outspark, a VC backed media publishing start-up acquired by Axl Springer/Gamigo in 2013, and technology corporate dev roles at DLJdirect and Yahoo, plus COO of NHN's international launch.

Susan has a proven track record of investing in innovative teams applying AI to create solutions that solve the world's challenges and bring equitable benefits to all.

Fund Information:.
Katalyst Ventures is a stage agnostic venture fund investing in game-changing ideas and the entrepreneurs behind them — leaders with ingenuity, grit, devotion who build companies that last. We help founders and their teams accelerate their path to market and scale their businesses by being a deep bench of operators and technologists.

Fund Site:https://katalyst.ventures/

Fund Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/company/katalyst-ventures-management-llc/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/choesusan

Our InfoMERCH STORE https://teespring.com/stores/trailyn
FEMALE VC LAB DONATION LINK https://femalevclab.com/donate
OFFICIAL WEBSITE https://femalevclab.com
BOOKING https://trailyn.com/
OFFICIAL PODCAST WEBSITE https://femalevclab.com

Support The StreamDIRECT SUPPORT (Includes Crypto) https://femalevclab.com/donate
BUY ME A COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/femalevclab

Social MediaINSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/trailynven/
TWITTER https://twitter.com/TrailynVen
OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER https://femalevclab.com

View Details

E056: Alexia Lingart: Creadev

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:18 What inspired you to become a VC?15:45 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?20:35 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?23:38 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?25:09 How do people contact you?25:42 Thank youFeatured Guest Bio:My name is Alexia Lingart. As VC Investor at Creadev for almost 3 years, a global investment firm, I’m specialized in the investment & support of Foodtech & AgTech US start-ups. I'm based between New York and Paris. I've led the Series B of Everytable, a public-benefit food company, the Series B of The Jackfruit Company, a breakthrough business in the plant-based meat category and more recently the Series A of Salted, a virtual restaurant company aiming at building and scaling better-for-you brands.

My background involves a Master Degree in Corporate Finance at University-Paris-Dauphine (PSL) and experiences in Mergers & Acquisitions (Food and Beverage deals) and Private Equity at Apax and Motion Equity Partners (Food deals).

Fund Information:Creadev is an evergreen investment firm operating worldwide, controlled by the Mulliez family, founders of one of the largest Business to Consumer retail platforms in the world. Our mission is to give access to essential goods and services such as Food, Healthcare and Sustainable Consumption to many as possible. Based in Paris, New-York, Shanghai and Nairobi, Creadev has invested over $3bn since 2002 in companies in stages ranging from venture to growth equity and buyout. In the US, we focus on VC investments in Food Tech and Ag Tech sectors from Series A to C.

Fund Site:https://www.creadev.com/

Fund Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexia-lingart-14316b85/https://www.linkedin.com/company/creadev-investissements/mycompany/

View Details

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction00:14 What inspired you to become a VC?15:53 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?08:43 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?10:11 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?12:28 How do people contact you?12:45 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Edith Yeung is a General Partner at Race Capital – an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund.

Edith has been integral to Race Capital's success and was named one of the 10 Most Powerful Investors in Crypto by TheInformation. She has invested in 3x Decacorns (FTX, Solana, Stellar), 1 Unicorn (Agora.io) and 60 other notable startups. In fact, when Edith invested in Solana and FTX- the crypto market had made a bigger drop than over the past few months. Having invested through multiple crypto and tech cycles, she's keenly aware that market shocks are the best time for early-stage investors to make investments.

Edith is happy to discuss her approach to investing in Web3 infrastructure, the current VC landscape, her outlook, and being a female leader in the VC space.

Fund Information:Race Capital invests, builds, and partners with exceptional founders building market-transforming companies. They work side by side with our founders as early as possible, every step of the way. They have successfully built our own companies from small to big, from nothing to IPO, and want to help others do the same.

Fund Site:https://race.capital/

Fund Contact:https://twitter.com/edithyeung

View Details

E054: Elizabeth Galbut: SoGal Ventures

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:22 What inspired you to become a VC?15:53 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?17:24 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?18:27 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?19:39 How do people contact you?20:21 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Elizabeth Galbut is a venture capitalist, designer, professor, and philanthropist. She is Managing Partner of SoGal Ventures, investing in diverse founders revolutionizing how the next generations live, work, and stay healthy and Co-President of SoGal Foundation, a nonprofit on a mission to bridge the diversity gap in entrepreneurship and investing.

Fund Information:SoGal Ventures is the first female-led millennial venture capital firm, with an investment focus on exceptional, diverse founding teams that have plans for global domination through tackling major consumer or healthcare problems in the U.S. and Asia. SoGal Ventures represents how far our generation has come, and how deep our impact on the world can be.

Fund Site:https://www.sogalventures.com/

Fund Contact:https://twitter.com/design4innov8https://www.linkedin.com/in/egalbut/https://twitter.com/SoGalVentureshttps://www.iamsogal.com/https://twitter.com/iamsogalhttps://www.instagram.com/iamsogal/

View Details

E053: Irene Arias Hofman: IDB LAB

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:38 What inspired you to become a VC?01:38 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?03:34 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?04:41 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?05:27 How do people contact you?05:46 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Irene Arias Hofman, a Spanish national, was appointed CEO of IDB Lab, the IDB Group innovation laboratory, in January 2018. Irene leads a purpose-driven multidisciplinary team that fosters innovation for inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean. Under her direction, the lab uses tools of financing, knowledge, and connections to co-create projects and support entrepreneurship. IDB Lab looks for market-driven solutions able to transform the lives of populations that are vulnerable due to economic, social or environmental factors.

Previously, she developed her career working for more than 20 years with the World Bank Group, specifically with the IFC, the largest international development institution focused on the private sector. There, Irene had investment responsibilities with global reach and also focused on Latin America and the Caribbean. She managed the IFC's largest portfolio - US$ 16 billion - and annual investment programs of more than US$ 6 billion. Her focus has been on innovation, venture capital, and fintech.

Irene holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Carlos III University in Madrid, an M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC, and an M.A. in Advanced European Studies from the College of Europe. She is a CFA® Charterholder.

Fund Information:IDB Lab is the innovation laboratory of the IDB Group, the leading source of development finance and know-how for improving lives in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

IDB Lab mobilizes resources to develop innovative projects and early stage ventures with a potential for impact and great scale, benefiting populations that are vulnerable due to economic, social, or environmental factors.

Since 1993 IDB Lab has approved more than US$ 2 billion in projects deployed across 26 LAC countries.

As of October 29, 2018, IDB Lab is the new identity of the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF).

Fund Site:https://bidlab.org/en

Fund Contact:https://bidlab.org/en

View Details

E052: Melissa Stevens: Center for Strategic Philanthropy at the Milken Institute

Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:30 So what inspired you to get into the area of strategic philanthropy? How does one go about doing that?04:10 How do you think strategic philanthropy will impact venture capital or will it be an addition to venture capital? 05:47 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?07:39 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?08:37 How do people contact you?08:51 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:Melissa Stevens is the executive director of the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy, leading its work with individual and family philanthropists and foundations seeking to deploy their capital to make a transformative, sustainable impact. Since co-founding the Center in 2015, she has overseen the creation and execution of strategies which have influenced $1 billion in philanthropic capital, and managed the development of programs and organizations including the Melanoma Research Alliance, the largest private funder of melanoma research. Under her leadership, the Center for Strategic Philanthropy has more than tripled in size, expanding its areas of expertise to include education and environmental conservation philanthropy, as well as health and medical research. Previously, Melissa was the deputy executive director of the Milken Institute’s FasterCures center, leading its growth and expanding its programmatic scope to include the development of a novel financing mechanism for early-stage drug development and building a global resource for large-scale, cross-sector collaboration. She also directed FasterCures’ Philanthropic Advisory Service, which aimed to deploy philanthropic capital effectively to advance medical solutions. This ultimately led to the creation of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy. Prior to joining the Institute, Melissa worked in the health sciences practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, advising commercial and federal clients such as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development. Melissa received a bachelor's degree in biochemistry and an M.B.A. from Pennsylvania State University. She is based at the Institute's Washington, D.C. office.

Company Information:
The Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy advises philanthropists and foundations seeking to develop and implement transformative giving strategies.

Company Site:https://milkeninstitute.org/

Company Contact:https://milkeninstitute.org/

View Details

Nicole Valentine is the FinTech Director of the Center for Financial Markets at the Milken Institute with over a decade of financial services, international Mergers & Acquisitions, technology and innovation experience. She leads the FinTech Program with a focus on access to capital, financial inclusion, compliance and transparency.

View Details

1863 Ventures accelerates New Majority entrepreneurs from high potential to high growth by bridging entrepreneurship and racial equity.

View Details

Stage is a female-led private equity fund focused on acquiring orphaned venture-backed companies who are in need of an alternative path to success.

View Details

Financial Venture Studio is on a mission to help entrepreneurs build the world’s best fintech companies. We help early-stage startup founders get to market quickly, grow rapidly, and build an enduring market presence. Beyond capital, the firm provides operational experience, leadership support, and access to the typically closed financial services ecosystem. Learn more at http://www.finventurestudio.com/.

View Details

PsyMed Ventures is a $25m venture fund focused on cutting edge mental health treatments including psychedelic therapeutic, neurotechnology, precision psychiatry and digital therapeutics. PsyMed Ventures invests in pre-seed, seed and Series A round. A third of PsyMed's current portfolio companies are co-founded by female founders. PsyMed donates 4.19% (wink to Bicycle Day, the day LSD was invested) to indigenous communities and non-profits in psychedelics space.

View Details

Ganas Ventures is a traditional 506c $10M fund investing in pre-seed and seed Web 2 and Web 3 community-driven startups in the US and Latin America.

View Details

Trailyn VC is an early seed stage venture fund investing in diverse deep-tech founders in the US. Trailyn VC leads and invests in areas of Blockchain, AI, AR/VR, IoT and Quantum Computing.

View Details

Rogue Women's Fund is an early seed stage venture fund investing in women-led tech companies across the US. Rogue leads and invests in areas of consumer health tech, caring economy, experience tech, and equity tech. Rogue has a founder centric model that includes investor involvement, sharing the GP carry with founders, and providing access to performance coach and an emergency elderly and child care stipend.

View Details

Sapphire Ventures is a leading venture capital firm that partners with visionary teams and venture funds to build companies of consequence. For nearly two decades, Sapphire has been investing capital, resources and expertise in innovative startups and technology-focused venture funds around the world. With more than $6.8B in AUM across Sapphire Ventures, Sapphire Partners and Sapphire Sport, and with team members in Austin, London, Palo Alto and San Francisco, Sapphire is well-positioned to help scale companies and venture funds, elevating them to become global category leaders.

View Details

Fuel Venture Capital is committed to propelling groundbreaking ideas into world-changing companies and democratizing access to the creative economy to shape the future of society. The firm's "founder focused, investor driven" approach is led by a core team with more than 60 years of combined experience in investment banking, wealth management, executive leadership and entrepreneurship. The fund boasts a portfolio of 31 companies based around the globe across numerous sectors, bringing positive impact to virtually all corners of our modern economy.

View Details

Gale Wilkinson is the founder and Managing Partner at Vitalize, a seed fund and angel community investing in future of work + learning software. Previously, Wilkinson founded IrishAngels, one of the largest angel groups in the country. Gale has led $65M+ in early stage deals across 80+ portfolio companies. Her experience prior to VC includes founding two failed startups, consulting for new product launches with Nielsen, and strategy with Orbitz.

View Details

TenOneTen is an early stage venture fund based in LA investing in software and data companies. We are techies and like companies with technical differentiation.

View Details

Recast Capital is a 100% women-owned venture capital platform that invests in and supports top-tier emerging fund managers, with a focus on diverse partnerships. The platform includes two offerings: 1) a fund investment strategy providing LPs diversified exposure to emerging managers and 2) a tuition-free educational program for GPs.

View Details

VenturePole is an AI-powered venture investment platform and venture capital firm.

Our platform is armed with smart tools like our Investment Risk Rating, that uses machine learning to predict startup survival, alongside our Valuation Calculator and Company Strength & Weakness Analysis. Our tools are unbiased and factor in the diversity surplus, as well as help startups fundraise easier and investors make better investments faster.

VenturePole is the official partner of HealthInc, the health tech accelerator of Startupbootcamp.

View Details

InHealth Ventures is a London based, health-tech focused, early stage, transatlantic fund which backs founders who are on a mission to solve painful, pervasive healthcare challenges. Through its link to the InHealth Group (the UK’s largest specialist provider of diagnostic and healthcare solutions), the team has a breadth of commercial and operational experience that allows them to support portfolio companies across R&D, go-to-market, and regulatory strategy.

View Details

Unicorn Hunters spotlights emerging growth companies looking to hit the coveted $1B “unicorn” valuation mark, while rallying individual investors worldwide to help fund these breakout ventures. The show creates a new genre for audiences — enrichtainment —combines entertainment with the potential for consumers worldwide to back pre-IPO investment opportunities, democratizing wealth.

View Details

Vinaj Ventures is a boutique innovation and investment services firm with presence in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and Atlanta.

Telosity, their latest fund, is dedicated to investing in Pre-Seed and Seed-Stage companies offering both scalable and affordable mental wellbeing digital solutions for young people.

View Details

Plug and Play is the leading innovation platform, connecting startups, corporations, venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we're present in 35+ locations across five continents. We offer corporate innovation programs and help our corporate partners in every stage of their innovation journey, from education to execution. We also organize startup acceleration programs and have built an in-house VC to drive innovation across multiple industries where we've invested in hundreds of successful companies including Dropbox, Guardant Health, Honey, Lending Club, N26, PayPal, and Rappi. For more information, visit https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com

View Details

Human Ventures is a business creation platform. We go beyond the business model and seek opportunities to build Model Businesses with ambitious founders who are innovating around Human Needs. By unlocking access to a powerful network of founders, investors and corporate partners, we are creating a blueprint for the future of business to be built on purpose.

View Details

Republic gives people power to invest in the future they believe in by providing access to startup, real estate, crypto, and video game investments. Focused on creating a diverse, sustainable, connected world, Republic has facilitated over $300 million in investments from over one million global community members. With a global team in six countries, Republic is backed by Galaxy Digital, The Motley Fool, Binance, Naspers, AngelList and more. For more information, visit republic.co.

View Details

H Venture Partners is a female-founded, owned and controlled venture capital firm focused on purpose-driven, science-backed consumer brands. Led by a team of consumer experts with unparalleled experience as former consumer executives, the firm was co-founded by managing partner Elizabeth Edwards, a leading investor who has identified billion-dollar brands.

View Details

Simple Food Ventures is a $2M mission-driven, early-stage venture fund investing in the future of healthy foods and products categorized in the better-for-you space. We look to partner with companies and passionate founders who are creating minimally processed, nutrient-dense, and nourishing products that are better for the body and the environment. Our investments range from $50K - $150K. In addition to a financial investment, we prepare our portfolio companies for successful entrances into conventional grocery. Our overall mission is to create access to healthy food for all.

View Details

We invest early stage at the intersection of blockchain/AI and impact.

View Details

USAKO Group is an international investment and accelerator company, which has presence in U.S.A. and S. Korea. The Group is an official global partner of S. Korean governmental agencies, and has played highly active roles in U.S. and S. Korean startup ecosystem for many years. USAKO Group's goal is to provide softlanding pad for any qualified companies entering U.S. and S. Korea.

In the past 24 months, USAKO Group successfully ran programs, resulted in investment commitment of over $25M. USAKO Group and its leadership also have focused on training and supporting female and minority enterpreneurs around the world. For the past 2 years, our group designed and operated multiple programs in order to promote women's startup, including close collaboration with two of top women's university in S. Korea.

View Details

Laurence Innovation (LI) is an investment fund powering the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). At a time when emerging fields like artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT), genetic engineering, and quantum computing are rapidly transforming the global economy, we can’t afford to overlook the most innovative entrepreneurs in the country. However, that’s exactly what far too many investors (particularly early-stage VCs) are doing by failing to fund diverse founders, confining their investments to saturated markets like software, and using cumbersome investment models that prevent them from taking risks.

View Details

FISV invests in early stage businesses redefining wealth and asset management globally and that are strategic to Fidelity International.

View Details

VC Include is an exclusive ecosystem and marketplace designed for GPs and LPs to expand investment opportunities that improve investment outcomes through the power of diversity. This ecosystem drives alpha to investors while also moving the needle on shaping a more equitable and empowered world. VC Include has built the infrastructure for an inclusive economy and is a forerunner in connecting diverse founders with ESG and impact investing. Learn more about VC Include at www.vcinclude.com.

View Details

Yes, we operate immersive programs for growth-stage entrepreneurs offering solutions to seemingly intractable challenges. Yes, we are also a multi-media company, a private global network, and an investment firm. We forge unlikely partnerships with some of the world’s largest institutions and most admired brands, and we operate multiple initiatives across asset classes, industries and geographies, because we are dedicated to doing whatever it takes to drive resources to and break down barriers for entrepreneurs solving BFPs.

View Details

Playground Global is an early stage venture capital fund, based in Palo Alto, that invests in frontier technologies with the potential to create multi-generational impact. The table is a community for female and non-binary investors, operators, and founders in enterprise and deep technology.

View Details

We are a seed fund that invests in technology startup companies, located in Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, that address global challenges. We believe that technology investment should not be confined to mainstream hubs like Silicon Valley, London, or Beijing. It is our mission to bring technology access and economic prosperity to Latin America through investment.

The initial portfolio of 20 companies will benefit from MrPink’s Venture Design & Growth Playbook, leveraging our experience by building, investing and refining over 40 startups, producing 10x returns and multiple exits.

Our partners and diverse leadership team have brought together decades of hands-on experiences to invest in high-quality entrepreneurs and help them succeed along the growth journey.

View Details

Global Ventures is an international venture capital firm, investing in founders and ideas across emerging markets. We back global-minded founders that are leading growth-stage companies and using technology to transform emerging markets and the world. The Global Ventures team is a diverse, collaborative, talented and curious group of professionals who, combined, have years of experience and expertise building and scaling companies.

View Details

SAP.iO is SAP’s startup venture arm with an enterprise-focused accelerator program whose goal is to secure SAP customers’ future in a world going through rapid digital transformation by being the bridge to the most relevant startup innovation. Since inception in 2017, SAP.iO has supported 300+ startups across 25+ Industries of which 80+ have solutions available on the SAP App Store that have resulted in 150+ signed SAP Customer contracts. SAP.iO had an strong year in 2020 with more than 400 press articles mentions in The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and more. It was recognized as Winner of the Corporate Startup Accelerator Award and named among the World’s Top 25 Startup-Friendly Companies by Mind the Bridge and the International Chamber of Commerce.

View Details

Lenore Champagne Beirne is an Investor, Executive Coach and Venture Strategist. At Bright Ventures, Lenore and her team are investing in and coaching startup leaders, and cultivating equity and access in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Lenore invested in early-stage companies at 645 Ventures and deployed foundation capital for economic development in Haiti.

View Details

Founded in 2016 and launched in January 2017, the Black Cooperative Investment Fund (BCIF) is a a 501(c)3, community-based organization rooted in self-help economics that provides microloans to the Black community through pooled dollars and raises awareness about the importance of economic empowerment, equity, and wealth building for the Black community.

The organization focuses specifically on the Southern California region. BCIF seeks to create social change for the Black community through the primary strategy of building assets and wealth. We provide microloans through pooled dollars from individuals and companies who are passionate about economic empowerment for the Black community. The long-term vision is to provide a dedicated, reliable, and perpetual source of capital to create assets and build wealth for, and within, the Black community, while also serving as a catalytic force for building a critical mass movement of change based on economic imperatives. We provide affordable, low-interest, low-fee loan alternatives to traditional lenders. All earnings from interest repayments are reinvested into the fund to grow and sustain the fund for long-term usage in the Black community. Annual fundraising goal: $500,000 will allow the fund to distribute 24 – 36 microloans annually, ranging between $5,000 – $20,000.

View Details

RareBreed VC is a Pre-seed to Seed Fund that is investing in exceptional founders outside of the large tech eco-systems (SF,NY,MA) earlier than everyone else. At Rarebreed we invest in companies building a software product with a unique or clearly repeatable customer acquisition strategy or building a physical product in a vertical that has lacked innovation in 10+ years. This is because these two founders are out-of-the-box thinkers and problem solvers.

View Details

VegaX is the “BlackRock” of the Digital Asset Industry. We provide investors globally with one-stop access to sophisticated and secure crypto asset management. The asset management industry is the largest in the world representing more than $80 trillion dollars in investments through investment products like ETFs, mutual funds and indices that outperform investments in individual stocks. VegaX is the first to create similar investment products for Crypto providing investors outperformance versus buying individual crypto currencies. On average, investors buying VegaX products make 30% more profit versus just holding Bitcoin.

View Details

EPIC and its team are the revenue-based financing platform for impact-driven companies and investors. Our mission is to accelerate positive impact and improve humanity by democratising access to investments. We leverage revenue-based financing as a financial instrument to match and align investors and founders who want to do good and do well.

View Details

Irina Berkon, is a proven finance and accounting leader, a CPA with over 15 years of progressive hands-on experience in corporate finance. She brings a solid background in the fields of IPO, start-ups, M&A, financial audits, international accounting and tax structure (US, RU, EU), corporate strategic planning and development, deal structures, sales/supply channels establishment and financing activities. Irina is a member of various industry-specific groups and participates in publications, talks and panels on topics such as fintech, blockchain, compliance and leadership. She has delivered award-winning pitches in her role as CFO, written publications on various topics and has been featured in Forbes and other publications on the topic of fintech and blockchain. Irina is a Managing Director of 'Golden Seeds' one of the nation’s most active early-stage investment firms focused on women-led businesses and the CFO of MetalPay a fintech banking platform for fiat and crypto payments.

View Details

Beyond Capital is an impact investment fund that invests in seed-stage, for-profit social enterprises serving impoverished communities throughout India and East Africa. - In addition to investment capital, we provide probono (“Beyond Capital”) resources to social enterprises as a crucial part of our early stage investment strategy. - Because we are structured as a non-profit, we can reinvest the returns from our investments for perpetual impact. - To-date, we have achieved a fund IRR of ~27%

View Details

Her Capital is a venture fund supporting female entrepreneurs across Southeast Asia. We are on a mission to tap into overlooked female founders in the region, addressing the 3% of global venture funding that currently goes to female-led companies, and capture the potential for superior returns. We are driven to harness finance to create a more inclusive world, funding sector-diverse businesses with women at their core.

View Details

Abby Lyall is Vice President at Big Idea Ventures, focusing on Series A+ stage investments in sustainable food and agriculture. Prior to this role, Abby was Program Director for BIV’s seed stage alt-protein accelerator and the second employee at Quake Capital Partners.

View Details

Tracy Gray is the Founder and Managing Partner of The 22 Fund & We Are Enough, as well as Executive-in-Residence at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI). She is also a Board Director of APPLIFE Digital Solutions (OTC:ADLS) and CSUDH Philanthropic Foundation.

View Details

As a Xennial, born with an analog childhood, and digital adulthood, Leesa Soulodre is a serial entrepreneur who has invested her lifetime on the frontiers of DeepTech pioneering, digital transformation, and innovation. She has served more than 400+ multinationals and a plethora of start-ups in 19 sectors across Europe, the Asia-Pacific, and the Americas.

In Founder and CxO leadership roles, Leesa has led companies from seed to $14B USD into new markets, pioneered deep technology, accelerated top lines prior to exits, and supported in the raising of over USD40M in Seed to Series C investments. She has had one IPO, a number of successful exits, and knows the hard knocks of lessons learned. As General Partner of R3i Ventures, Soulodre supports many of the world's most promising early-stage deep tech companies in accelerating their growth and is an active EIR and coach across the DeepTech ecosystem accelerators.

View Details

Carman Chan is in the cover story of Nikkei Asia Review as Top 5 Women-to-Watch in Asian Tech. Carman has 17 years of experience as a Serial Entrepreneur, Tech Columnist, 5 years as Venture Investor, and 3 years as International Speaker across ten countries. Carman is also the author of best-selling accelerated learning books. Her first startup, EnglishStreet (ES) became a business case at the Harvard’s Business Review Database. ES was acquired by the Hong Kong Economic Times (0423.HK). Her second startup, Click Limited, has the first CFO of Tencent, Patrick Tsang and the founder of Cherubic Ventures, Matt Cheng, as investors. Click Limited merged with Hiiir Inc. and was acquired by FastEastone (4904.TW).

Carman founded Click Ventures in 2015 and its first fund became the only seed fund from Asia to make the Top 5 Seed fund (Vintage 2013-2015) by performance, while its second fund became the Top 1 in the Fund to Watch category by performance in Preqin’s Top Performing Ventures Capital Funds Report in March 2018. In 2019, Click Ventures has been named Consistent Top Performing Fund Manager by Preqin!

View Details

Eve is an international marketing professional and entrepreneur, experienced Business Development, Strategic Partnerships and Investor Relations professional with expertise in Tech, Entertainment (Video Games) and Blockchain. She has M.A. degree in Marketing and Ph.D. in Economics, and is a regular judge/panelist and mentor at Venture Capital classes at Los Angeles Film School and Stanford University.

View Details

Delilah Panio is Vice President of U.S. Capital Formation for Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) based in Southern California. In this role, Delilah advises U.S. companies on the opportunity to list and raise capital on Canada’s premier equity markets. She is a frequent speaker and pitch competition judge and coach, and was named in the “2019 Top 100 People in Finance” Magazine.

Previously, Delilah spent 10 years at TSX and TSXV in business development and strategy. She has advised many companies on the going public process and provides an understanding of private and public financing options in Canada and the U.S. Delilah is an Advisory Board Member for MAPLE Business Council, a trade organization between Canada and Southern California, and is Co-Chair of the Capital Council for WE Global, an innovation studio for women entrepreneurs.

Delilah is also the Executive Director and Co-Founder of We Are Enough, a non-profit that educates women on why and how to invest in women-owned businesses and/or with a gender lens.

View Details

igniteXL Ventures is Silicon Valley based global seed fund investing in and igniting exceptional founders at the intersection point of technology, beauty, and wellness.

View Details

Liz splits her time between Ethereum Classic Labs, and parent company Digital Finance Group. On a daily basis she can be found: sourcing startups, working with portfolio companies, providing updates to crypto-exchange partners, collaborating with universities, giving talks, and helping get Matrix Exchange ready to launch. Previously, she was at Plug and Play Tech Center where she led the Insurtech startup program globally. She holds an MBA and Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science.

View Details

Vera Schroeder is an early stage tech investor at Safar Partners. As an associate at Safar, Vera evaluates and mentors entrepreneurs, conducts diligence, and supports portfolio companies. In addition to her work at Safar, Vera is an officer at MIT's Social Entrepreneurship Alumni Group and mentor with the Junior Achievement of Northern New England. She also mentors MIT and Harvard students interested in entrepreneurship and acts as a judge and panelist for local startup and VC events. Vera earned a PhD in chemistry from MIT specializing in nanoscience and materials science.

View Details

Dr. Silvia Mah, is entrenched in the startup scene as Partner at Ad Astra Ventures, aiming to “get to even” for high achieving women, founding fund manager for the San Diego Angel Conference Fund I, Investment Committee partner in the global social impact fund, Next Wave Impact, Founder & CEO of She Invests!, a platform for female founders to learn about investing & most recently, the new Director of the Center for Peace & Commerce at the University of San Diego. Originally from Caracas, Venezuela, Dr. Mah believes in integrating family and work to create a lifestyle that serves both with a strong cup of integrity.

View Details

Barbara Bickham, Managing Partner, Women's Innovation Fund Accelerator Founder/CTO of Trailyn Ventures Discusses her journey and her why as a Venture Capitalist.

Answers the 3 podcast questions: What inspired you to become a VC? What is your investment thesis? What are you learning/listening to/reading?

Contact: Linked-In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarabickham/

View Details

This is a quick introduction on what the Female VC Lab Podcast covers. For more information, go to our website: https://trailyn.com or follow us on Twitter @TrailynVen.

Female VC Lab: Recent Episodes

Barbara Bickham