LGBTQ+ Founder Office Hours: Meet The Investors — Part II

Off the back of the success of our first Office Hours event in June, we recently announced that we will be hosting our LGBTQ+ Founder Office Hours on October 22. We launched the Office Hours series to collaboratively support the diverse pipeline of entrepreneurs in a distributed work environment. We have partnered with StartOut and Series Q as industry experts to make the upcoming event happen.

Over the past couple of weeks, we have seen an amazing response from the investment community with countless investors across the United States and Europe reaching out to get involved and connect with LGBTQ+ 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 earlier this week. We have an incredible group of investors, nine of which I have the opportunity to highlight below.

To learn more about about the event, visit https://bit.ly/lgbtq-office-hours

Anthemis — Elizabeth Davis and Vinay Singh

Stage: Pre-Seed — Series A

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.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.

Lerer Hippeau — Meagan Loyst

Stage: Early Stage

Sectors: 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.

Female Founders Fund — Adrianna Samaniego

Stage: Seed

Sectors: Generalist

Female Founders Fund is an early stage fund investing in technology companies founded by women. It invests in e-commerce, media, platforms, advertising and web-enabled services businesses. Founded in 2014, the fund has built the most recognized brand investing in female-run internet and software startups.

Greycroft — Ali Schleider

Stage: Seed — Series A

Sectors: Consumer, Digital Health, Fintech

Greycroft is a leading venture capital company focused on investments in the internet and mobile markets. With offices in the two media capitals of the world — New York and Los Angeles — Greycroft is positioned uniquely to serve entrepreneurs who have chosen the company as their partner. Greycroft leverages an extensive network of media and technology industry connections to help entrepreneurs gain visibility, build strategic relationships, bring their products to market and build successful businesses. Greycroft manages in excess of $1 billion and has made over 150 investments in leading companies since inception including Acorn, App Annie, Boxed, Braintree, Buddy Media, Everything But The House, Extreme Reach, Huffington Post, Icertis, JW Player, Maker Studios, Plated, Scopely, Shipt, The RealReal, Thrive Market, Trunk Club, Venmo, WideOrbit and Yeakha.

GingerBread Capital—Olivia Kim

Stage: Seed — Growth

Sectors: Generalist

GingerBread Capital invests in the next generation of women founders and entrepreneurs leading high growth businesses. The company helps women gain access to the knowledge, networks and capital they need to build and scale successful enterprises, and encourage other women to do the same.

NFP Ventures — Carolina Rojas

Stage: Seed — Series B

Sectors: Digital Health, Fintech, Insuretech

NFP Ventures’ mission is to find, fund and work successfully with visionary entrepreneurs, applying its expertise to facilitate long term success. Typically, NFP targets businesses seeking Seed to Series B investments that can benefit from the company’s distribution, human capital and other unique assets to accelerate their growth.

Goldman Sachs — Marianna Lopert-Schaye

Stage: Series A — Growth

Sectors: Fintech

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management company that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. It seeks to partner with visionary founders and CEOs to build enduring, category-defining businesses by harnessing its global network and deep industry expertise. GS is investing in leading market infrastructure, trading technology, payments and specialty finance businesses. Founded in 1869, the company is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.

Nyca — Stephanie Khoo

Stage: Early Stage

Sectors: Fintech

Nyca is a leading venture capital company focused on connecting innovative companies to the global financial system. The company’s experience in finance and technology gives it a unique perspective to help entrepreneurs transform payments, credit, digital advice and financial infrastructure.

Donna Redel

Stage: Angel

Sectors: Generalist

Donna Redel is a businesswoman, a professor of blockchain-digital assets, an angel investor and a philanthropist. She was the managing director of the World Economic Forum, the foremost global organization combining business, political, academic and other leaders of society committed to improving the state of the world. Ms. Redel was the first woman to chair a US exchange, the Commodity Exchange. Following her work in global organizations, Ms. Redel began a second career as a New York City-based advisor and investor focusing on financial technology, blockchain and emerging technologies. She is an active participant in the startup community with New York Angels, serving as a board member, the co-founder of the Blockchain Committee, co-chair of the Israeli Investment Committee and chair of the Education Committee. Ms. Redel developed and is teaching two courses at Fordham Law School and Fordham Gabelli School of Business: one on Blockchain-Crypto-Digital Assets and the other on Smart Securities. The focus of her public service efforts are the arts, health initiatives and promoting women’s leadership. She has a JD from Fordham Law School, an MBA from Columbia and a BA from Barnard College (Columbia).