Female Founder Office Hours: Meet the Investors, Part II
We recently announced that we will be hosting our first Female Founder Office Hours on June 30th. To make it happen, we partnered with two incredible non-profit organizations, Diversity VC and Ladies Who Launch. Over the past week, we have seen an amazing response from the investment community with countless investors across the United States reaching out to get involved and connect with female founders.
In order for all of the founders to have an opportunity to get to know the investors that will be participating, we published our first “Meet the Investors, Part 1” article last week.
If you’re a Female Founder, or know of a Female Founder who would be interested in participating, please apply here by 6:00 PM ET on June 23rd!
Meet this week’s group of investors:
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Elizabeth Davis — Anthemis
Stage: Pre-Seed and Seed
Sector: Fintech
Anthemis is an investment firm focused on cultivating change in financial services by investing in, and building businesses committed to improving the world. We are founded on three guiding principles — authentic collaboration, virtuous cycle outcomes, and diversity and inclusivity — and our deep understanding of markets and models, passion for emerging technology, and values inspire everything we do. Our goal is to reinvent finance by bringing together and investing in talented entrepreneurs, thought-leaders, institutions, and change-agents in the world of finance to solve the financial services’ most pressing challenges faster, better, and for the benefit of all.
Acceleprise — Pranavi Cheemakurti
Stage: Pre-Seed and Seed
Sector: B2B SaaS
Acceleprise is one of the first SaaS focused accelerators in the United States. Acceleprise provides entrepreneurs an opportunity to tap into their extensive network of great enterprise companies, mentors and investors. Acceleprise focuses on investing in very early stage companies that are solving very targeted vertical or horizontally specific pain points with an easy to use application and has a team in place with the relevant operating experience to make it happen.
Founder Collective — Parul Singh
Stage: Seed
Sector: Technology
Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund, built by a collection of successful entrepreneurs, providing the first professional round of capital to promising entrepreneurs with compelling business concepts. Founder Collective is focused on helping the next generation of great entrepreneurs build important and lasting businesses. Founder Collective focuses on technology-driven companies across a broad range of industries.
Lerer Hippeau — Andrea Hippeau
Stage: Early Stage
Sector: Generalist
Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. Lerer Hippeau focuses on entrepreneurs with product vision, consumer insight, focused execution, and unwavering ambition.
Harlem Capital — Gabby Cazeau
Stage: Seed — Series A
Sector: Generalist
Harlem Capital Partners (“HCP”) is a New York based minority-owned early-stage venture capital firm on a mission to change the face of entrepreneurship by investing in 1,000 diverse founders over the next 20 years. They are committed to reserving capital for investments in minority and women founders.
Raptor Group — Justin Saslaw
Stage: Seed to Series A
Sector: Fintech, Sports, Media
Founded in 2009, Raptor Group is a private investment firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts backed by the Family Office of Jim Pallotta. The firm seeks to invest in the early stage, public and private equities across a broad spectrum of sectors including sports, consumer, technology, media, entertainment, financial services, and healthcare sectors.
Seneca VC — Melissa Moore
Stage: Stage Agnostic
Sector: Generalist
Seneca VC is a new venture firm backing the next generation of changemakers. Seneca VC’s mission is to get exceptional founders — especially women and “underrated” minorities — funded and help them build game-changing startups.
SoftBank Investment Advisers — Mary Miller
Stage: Stage Agnostic
Sector: Generalist
At SoftBank Investment Advisers, they believe the next stage of the Information Revolution is underway. Through the SoftBank Vision Fund, they are investing up to $100 billion in the businesses and technologies that will help make it possible. They offer the operational expertise, global network and patient capital required to help exceptional founders build market-leading companies.
Playfair Capital — Henrik Wetter Sanchez and Alexandra Baranowski
Stage: Early Stage
Sector: Generalist
Playfair Capital is an early-stage fund that commits to companies early and with conviction. Based in London, Playfair combines the best aspects of angel investing with a focused fund, to invest in truly ambitious founders, wherever they are in the world. Playfair takes a sector-agnostic approach and investments span deep tech, SaaS, marketplaces and B2B companies. We’ve backed the founders of more than 50 companies including CryptoFacilities, Mapillary, Ravelin, Stripe, Thought Machine and Trouva.
HearstLab & Hearst Ventures — Lisa Burton & Kunal Mehta
Stage: Stage Agnostic
Sector: Generalist
HearstLab provides investment and resources for early-stage, women-led startups that innovate across media, data and technology. The Lab is focused on investing in startups and supporting the portfolio companies in residence, including advising on data science and product.
Hearst Ventures makes strategic investments in companies operating at the intersection of media, information and technology. Starting with its investment in Netscape in 1995, Hearst Ventures has grown to become one of the most active and successful corporate venture funds. Hearst Ventures is a global investment group with offices in NYC, London, Beijing and Tel-Aviv.
The Venture Collective — Stephanie Sarelakos and Cat Hernandez
Stage: Early Stage
Sector: Generalist
The Venture Collective is a transformational, early-stage venture business backed by world class entrepreneurs and business leaders. They invest their capital, time, and network into fast-growing companies.
