Women in Venture Capital

In this episode, we talk to Hannelle Fares about her transition from healthcare to venture capital, her experience recruiting at HBS and her experience with diversity in the industry as a young female investor. Hannelle is a second year MBA student at HBS. She has mostly recently worked at DCVC (Data Collective), a 23 person San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs Deep Tech entrepreneu...

In this episode, Jeff talks about trends in venture capital, from sector growth, to gender and race based biases. He also shares his key learnings having spent over a decade in the venture ecosystem with his diversity of experiences. Jeff is a General Partner at Flybridge, with investment interests in AI, blockchain, consumer, e-commerce, machine learning, and mobile start-ups. He also teaches a c...

In this episode, Tess gives us a deep dive into Edtech, a sector that has gained renewed momentum this year as ~1.5 billion students and teachers move online. She talks to us about her journey working for Edtech companies, Andela and Pluralsight and eventually moving to Edtech focused fund, GSV Ventures and the need to break the cycle of limited funding to minority groups. She also gives us an ove...

In today's episode we chat with our first female partner on the show, Anoushka Vaswani, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners in the Bay Area. Anoushka talks to us about enterprise software, diversity at the decision table, the importance of self-advocacy in career progression and fundraising amid COVID. At Lightspeed, Anoushka focuses on growth-stage companies within the enterprise software...

In this episode, Kam shares her journey of transitioning from social enterprise to investing and her tips on recruitment process. We also discuss how critical mentorship is, especially in the space of venture capital. Kam is an Associate at Indicator Ventures, a US-based seed-stage venture firm that backs and supports companies leveraging ‘digital efficiencies’ and at The Fund, NYC’s most active s...

In this episode with Bukie Adebo, a second year student at HBS, we talk about Bukie's transition into venture capital without any prior experience. She also shares her thoughts on implicit biases in the ecosystem and how it is important to start by accepting those and working towards them consciously. You gravitate towards people who look like you, so there is extra effort needed to recognize...

Kriti talks to us about networking and recruiting across geographies in a very people-centric industry and her experience working in early stage and growth stage funds. She addresses culture at VC firms and how both men and women are keen to help improve gender representation at the decision table. Kriti is a second year MBA student at HBS. She is currently working with corporate venture firm, Pay...

Aia is a first year student at HBS. She is currently a Senior Associate at the Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, where she focuses on making early-stage technology investments in companies across the United States. In her role, she focuses on investment sourcing, due diligence, and working with portfolio companies. Prior to joining Revolution, Aia was an Analyst in the Investment Banking Di...

We continue our conversation with Kim as she candidly addresses diversity (women and people of color) in the industry, the female network and her work at and inspiration from Bravehouse, a non-profit focused on providing legal and community benefits to young immigrant women. Kim is a second year MBA student at Harvard Business School where she’s also a Rock Venture Partner. She made the Forbes 30...

In this 1st part of a two-part series, Kim Patel talks to us about her experience in banking, how she navigated a number of restructurings within media and formed the corporate strategy team at Vice, her transition to venture capital and founding Envision Accelerator. Kim is a second year MBA student at Harvard Business School where she’s also a Rock Venture Partner. She made the Forbes 30 under 3...

Shani is a second year MBA student at Harvard Business School. She started her career in investment management before moving to consulting. She’s currently working as a fellow at January Ventures, an early stage VC founded by operators turned investors who believe in an equal opportunity tech ecosystem. Earlier this year, she founded RESET Third Space, a health, wellness and fitness platform that...

Abhivyakti (Abhi) is an incoming MBA student at Harvard Business School. After graduating as an engineer from IIT Kharagpur, Abhi spent her initial time as a management consultant with BCG and then moved to a global, early to growth stage fund's India team : Lightspeed Partners, as an associate. In order to experience the other side of the table, she is currently working at an early stage Ed-...

The co-hosts, Rashveena and Anvita, talk about the idea behind and goals for this podcast, originated at the Harvard Business School and dedicated to women learning about and/or working in the venture capital industry.