Tag: Women in vc
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‘Look at It as a No For Now’: Halogen Ventures’ Jesse Draper on How to Handle Rejection as an Entrepreneur
As the founding partner of Halogen Ventures, Jesse Draper and her team are betting big on early-stage, female-founded companies with billion-dollar potential. In this episode of the Behind Her Empire podcast, Draper discusses how she deals with re…
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Office Hours Podcast: Greycroft’s Dana Settle on LA’s Booming Tech Scene
It was once a contrarian perspective to think a venture capital firm could survive outside of Silicon Valley. But Dana Settle moved to Los Angeles and tried it anyway.On this episode of Office Hours, co-founder of Zillow and dot.LA Spencer Rascoff tal…
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Goodbye, Diesel: Inside Romeo Power’s Plan to Electrify Trucks Nationwide
At a time when most electric vehicle manufacturers are struggling to deliver cars or finance their operations, electric battery maker Romeo Power is surging ahead. The five-year-old company founded by former SpaceX and Tesla engineers manufactures and…
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Acelyrin Wants to Move LA Biotech Beyond the ‘Innovate and Exit’ Model
The reality for most bioscience startups developing drugs is that, if they don’t fail, they will be swallowed up by a pharmaceutical giant. After a decade in the pharmaceutical industry and being involved in developing several high-profile drugs inclu…
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Pediatric App Huckleberry Raises $12.5 Million in a Telehealth Boom
When Jessica Toh had her first child, who proved to be an erratic sleeper, she wanted to use her background in computer science and statistics to understand why.In 2017, she started Huckleberry, an app that aims to leverage AI to predict babies’ sleep…
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dot.LA Summit: What to Expect When Breaking Into Tech Startups
There is no one secret to breaking into the tech industry, but one thing helps, a strong support system of colleagues and believing in yourself. A group of powerhouse tech veterans talked about the roadblocks faced when starting out. Grace Kangdani, s…
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dot.LA Summit: Women at the Top on How to Expand LA’s Tech Scene
As women in tech and venture, Kara Nortman and Robyn Ward heard a lot of nos when they started out. No we won’t fund you. No, we don’t have positions. But, it was the yeses that kept them going.”We have to expand the tent, we have to figure out how to…
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dot.LA Summit: Going Beyond Lip Service on Diversity and Inclusion is ‘A Matter of Respect’
Pledges to boost diversity and inclusion are widespread in the tech and startup world, but the industry chronically fails to realize its own goals.That’s no coincidence. The venture capital world, which provides much of the capital fueling fledgling s…
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Behind Her Empire: Hitha Palepu on Women Founders and the ‘True’ Failure
Rhoshan Pharmaceuticals CEO Hitha Palepu joins this week’s Behind Her Empire to talk about how she became an angel investor focused on women-founded businesses and her latest book, “We’re Speaking: The Life Lessons of Kamala Harris.”Palepu is the daug…
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LA Venture: Serial Entrepreneur Jessica Jackley on Pursuing a Goal: ‘Just Take More Steps Anyway’
On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Untapped Capital, Alltruists and Kiva founder Jessica Jackley talks about her experience supporting entrepreneurs across the world, and offers advice to founders on what to do when encountering doubt — from …