Natalie Sportelli is the Director of Brand and Content at Lerer Hippeau. She comes from Forbes, where she served as Associate Editor for the Under 30 vertical. She sits on the Junior Advisory Board of tech nonprofit RaisedBy.Us and runs @bywome

Ep. 11 The Morality Of Venture and How to Pick Winners with Jeremy Kaufmann (Principal at Scale Venture Partners)

Nov 24th, 2020 48m 53s

Jeremy focuses on investments across Scale’s technology portfolio with a primary focus on companies adding machine intelligence to business and vertical software, especially in industries untouched by the first decade of SaaS. Jeremy is also ex

Ep 10. "Reputation is the skin in the game" with Alex Fayette of ACME Capital

Nov 17th, 2020 52m 17s

Alex Fayette is a Principal at ACME Capital, where he focuses primarily on leading investments in early frontier technology companies and early consumer businesses. Alex currently serves as a board observer for Akash Systems, Astra, Ever/Body,

Venture Roast Episode 9: Britt Danneman (Investor at Alpha Edison)

Oct 31st, 2020 49m 48s

Links from Podcast: Emily Kramer ReportGood Technology Company NYT ArticleBritt's Bio:An investor by background, Britt has worked with companies across asset classes to scale. Before joining Alpha Edison, she was an investor at Bain Capita

Episode 8: Nitin Pachisia (Founding Partner of Unshackled Ventures)

Sep 1st, 2020 47m 4s

Open access to pitch UnshackledHow to Start a Company on a Visa ProgramNitin is a founding partner of Unshackled Ventures, an early-stage fund he conceived to help immigrant founders in the U.S. succeed faster. His experiences working as a st

Venture Roast Episode 7: Winter Mead (Cofounder of Oper8r, former LP Sapphire and Hall Capital)

Aug 18th, 2020 41m 7s

First LP Episode!Winter Mead - Winter invested ~$1 billion into >90 funds and companies as an employee of Sapphire Venture Partners and Hall Capital Partners. He was a committee member of the ILPA and NVCA; and is currently an assistant lectur

Venture Roast Episode 6: Earnest Sweat (Cofounder of BLCK VC, Associate Partner at Great Point Ventures)

Aug 4th, 2020 39m 13s

Earnest Sweat is an Associate Partner at GreatPoint Ventures who focuses on verticals whose emerging technologies will have the most significant impact on global GDP, specializing in retail, supply chain, real estate, and manufacturing. Prior t

Venture Roast Episode 5: Prashant Fonseka (Partner at Tuesday Capital)

Jul 21st, 2020 36m 17s

Prashant is a former teacher, entrepreneur, and Partner at Tuesday Capital. Since joining in 2013, he has led or been involved with over 60 investments in consumer, enterprise, and frontier technology including Cruise Automation, Opendoor, Iron

Venture Roast Episode 4: Alyson DeNardo (Partner Mac Venture Capital & M Ventures, Founder/CEO of Alden; Formerly Employee #1 at Atrium, Justin Kan's Chief of Staff)

Jun 29th, 2020 48m 5s

Alyson DeNardo is a Partner at MaC Venture Capital and M Ventures. In addition, she is the Founder/CEO of Alden - a consulting firm focused on organizational and individual efficiency. Previously, she served as Employee #1 at Atrium, building o

Venture Roast Episode 3: Shawn Xu (Investor at Floodgate | Dorm Room Fund | 30u30 )

Jun 16th, 2020 46m 15s

Shawn is a great emerging mind in venture that I am lucky to call a friend. On the podcast he talks about the things trends he and the Floodgate team are excited about, some stories from the industry that are pretty shocking, as well as what we

Venture Roast Episode 2: Farooq Abbasi (GP and Founder of Preface Ventures)

Jun 8th, 2020 50m 32s

On this episode we cover Farooq's 10 year journey to founding Preface as a POC in Venture as well as the topics of Capability Capital, funding the right people, and ways to make venture a more equitable ecosystem.Need some suggestions on how y

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