Venture:F Podcast

Venture:F where the future is female.

Join host Laura Nix Gerson as she delves into conversations with financial experts, female founders, and funders discovering solutions for creating greater opportunity, gender equity, and wealth for women. 

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EP 26: INVESTING IN AGE TECH & LONGEVITY WITH TRACY CHADWELL

Tracy Chadwell is the Founding Partner of 1843 Capital, a venture capital fund focused on early-stage technology companies and AgeTech. She launched her fund in 2016. Notable investments include Beautycounter (Exited: $1B), Tempo Automation (Exited Nasdaq:TMPO), and May Mobility. In this episode we talk about Tracy Chadwell’s path to venture, launching a fund, her focus on investing in the AgeTech & Longevity revolution, diverse investing, and some of her biggest portfolio investments and exits.

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EP 25: SHE RAISES CAPITAL WITH VIDHI DATA & SHALINI SARDANA

Vidhi Data and Shalini Sardana, are Co-founders and Co-CEO’s of She Raises Capital, an AI powered global funding platform for female founders with education, community and capital connections to help them stay the course to build successful businesses. In this episode we discuss Vidhi and Shalini’s path to partnership, and the community and platform they built to connect founders to investors.

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EP 24: BUILDING A COMMUNITY FOCUSED WINE BUSINESS WITH JILL OSUR

Jill Osur, President & CEO of Teneral Cellars a disruptive, woman-owned and run wine business. She is a 2023 Tory Burch Foundation Fellows and a member of the Governor's 2022 Entrepreneurship & Economic Mobility Task Force for California. In this episode we discuss Jill’s founder journey and her “why” in building a community-focused wine business.

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EP 23: WOMEN & TEQUILA WITH MARA SMITH

Mara Smith is Founder & CEO of Inspiro Tequila. Mara began her legal career at a large law firm in Chicago before joining the corporate strategy team at a Fortune 500 Company. In this episode we discuss what it takes to build a women-focused tequila business from the ground up and how to give back in the process.

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EP 22: INVESTING IN DIVERSE FOUNDERS WITH LAUREL MINTZ

Laurel Mintz is the Founder of Fabric VC, a venture fund backing underrepresented founders at the earliest stage. She is also the founder of Elevate My Brand an award-winning agency that serves both startups and blue chip global brands. In this episode we talk about what it takes to launch and raise capital for a venture fund and why investing in diverse founders is a smart strategy.

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EP 21: MIDLIFE, MENOPAUSE & ENTREPRENEURSHIP WITH MICHELLE JACOBS

Michelle Jacobs the Co-Founder and COO at Womaness. A strategic development leader with a sweet spot in brand building, leading sales (e-commerce and traditional), branding, partnerships, licensing, logistics, inventory planning and financial management she provides keen insight into what it takes to build and launch and consumer brand. In this episode we discuss Michelle’s founder journey, her partnership with co-founder Sally Mueller, why women’s health and menopause solutions have become such a hot topic.

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EP 11: WHO CONTROLS CAPITAL MATTERS WITH DR. RUTH SHABER

Dr. Ruth Shaber is a changemaker and innovator, moving from a robust career as an OBGYN and senior executive at Kaiser Permanente to empowering women across finance and healthcare. She is the co-author of The XX Edge: Unlocking Higher Returns and Lower Risk and the founder of the Diverse Investing Collective.

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EP 10: ANGEL INVESTING IS FUN! WITH CHERYL KELLOND

Cheryl Kellond, Co-Founder of Play Money reminds us all that angel investing is fun! And doesn’t have to be challenging. Which is why she and her co-founder launched Play Money! She has invested in nearly 50 startups using the funds in her IRA. Now, she is bringing all of these experiences together with her latest venture, Play Money.

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EP 09: FEARLESS FINANCES WITH CASSANDRA CUMMINGS

Cassandra Cummings is the author of Fearless Finances: A Timeless Guide to Building Wealth, and founder of The Stocks & Stilettos Society, an online community of more than 100,000 women investors. She is a Registered Investment Advisor, a Real Estate and Angel Investor and has provided investment, retirement and wealth-building strategies to women across the country for more than 20 years.

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EP 08: INVESTING IN THE NEXT CPG OR RETAIL UNICORN WITH TARYN JONES LAEBEN

Taryn Jones Laeben is the President and Founder of IRL Ventures. You may know of her from her previous role as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of SoulCycle, the revolutionary indoor cycling brand, founded in New York City in 2006. Before her time at SoulCycle, Taryn was the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Casper, the fast-growing sleep company, where she led rapid expansion across retail, wholesale, partnerships, customer experience, and strategy at large.

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EP 07: INVESTING IN A VENTURE FUND WITH EMMELINE VENTURES

Emmeline Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund based in Los Angeles investing across women’s health, financial services, and sustainability with a focus on tech & innovation that is helping women live & thrive. The portfolio has 23 companies in its portfolio including Alloy, LunaJoy, WealthMore, and The Beans.

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