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She Ventures Forward
by Natalie Abboud
Only 2 percent of venture capital funding goes to female founders. These founders aren't household names like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, or Bill Gates, but yet they've managed to build remarkable companies and raise venture funding. Welcome to She Ventures Forward, the podcast where we dive deep into the inspiring stories of trailblazing women who secure venture capital funding to build impactful companies and explore the challenges they faced along the way
Episodes
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The Acquisition Playbook: Claudia Laurie on Building Prive and Selling Smart
Claudia Laurie spent two and a half years at Uber mastering the science behind pricing, incentives, and subscriptions before leaving to build Prive, a subscription billing platform for D2C brands. Four years later, she had raised $5M, processed half a billion dollars in GMV, and successfully…
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What Precision Medicine Has Been Missing: Kelly Lacob on Building Xella Health
In this episode of She Ventures Forward, Natalie sits down with Kelly Lacob, CEO and co-founder of Xella Health, the first precision healthcare platform built specifically for women.. Kelly opens up about the real mechanics behind her $3.7M pre-seed raise: why going straight to institutional...
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Building Human-Centered Education in an AI World with Audrey Wisch of Curious Cardinals
In this episode of She Ventures Forward, Natalie sits down with Audrey Wisch, founder and CEO of Curious Cardinals, a personalized learning platform helping students discover their purpose through mentorship. Audrey shares how Curious Cardinals began as a passion project while she was a student…
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Reinventing Marketing Through Regenerative AI: Zinnie Zhang on Building Enttor
Zinnie Zhang joins She Ventures Forward to share how she’s building Enttor, an AI marketing platform helping enterprise teams scale authentic social media engagement. From identifying gaps in marketing software to raising pre-seed funding , Zinnie’s story is inspiring in turning frustration into...
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How Market Experiments Beat Market Research: Kate O’Keeffe, CEO of Heat Seeker AI
Kate O'Keefe wants to end the era of building products nobody wants. In this episode, the Heat Seeker AI founder and former BCG and Cisco exec shares how market experiments, not surveys, are the key to finding product-market fit—and why marketers everywhere are rethinking their playbook.
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From Personal Problem to VC-Backed Company: The Powered by Hue Playbook
Today, Powered by Hue co-founder and CEO Janvi Shah takes us inside her journey from solving her own pain point in beauty to building a platform used by major brands. In this episode, she shares how she turned personal experience into a powerful vision, the tactical steps behind raising $4.5M…
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Launching the Girl’s Bathroom of the Internet: Emma Bates on Launching Diem
In this episode of She Ventures Forward, Natalie sits down with Emma Bates, co-founder and CEO of Diem, a social search engine built to feel more like the girl’s bathroom at 1am than a Google rabbit hole. Emma shares the origin story of Diem, why traditional search fails women, and how she’s...
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Building the Future of Social: Ali Debow on swsh's Evolution
In this episode of She Ventures Forward, Ali Debow, co-founder of swsh, shares how she and her team pivoted multiple times before landing on an AI-powered shared photo album app. She talks about the early days of testing ideas on college campuses, dropping out of NYU to go all-in, and raising…
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In a Pickle: Creating a Marketplace With Julia O'Mara
In the latest episode of She Ventures Forward, Natalie sits down with Julia O'Mara, co-founder and COO of Pickle, a peer-to-peer rental marketplace that’s changing the way we think about fashion. Julia opens up about the unconventional path that led Pickle from a social polling app to a thriving...
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How Sophie Wyne pivoted with Ariglad
In the sixth episode of She Ventures Forward, Natalie sits down with Sophie Wyne, co - founder of Ariglad. Sophie shares lessons learned from pivoting Ariglad's product as well as her journey through YC and how that helped her build and raise what Ariglad is today.
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How Pavla Bobosikova nagivated early stage M&A with WFHomie
In the fifth episode of She Ventures Forward, Natalie sits down with Pavla Bobosikova, the founder and CEO of WFHomie, to discuss raising for a remote first platform during COVID, how accelerators help with financing, and how to navigate an early stage M&A, especially when no priced round had…
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How Valkyrie Holmes is building insurtech company Faura at 20
Join us for the fourth episode of She Ventures Forward with Valkyrie Holmes! Valkyrie shares her unique path from working with organizations like SpaceX and NASA to tackling the complex world of insurance with Faura, which aims to reduce natural disaster risk for homeowners at only 20. She...
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How to start and run a fund: SC Moatti’s impact on VC with Mighty Capital
In the third episode of She Ventures Forward, join us as we explore SC Moatti's journey from product visionary at Meta and Nokia to founding managing partner of Mighty Capital. SC shares her unique entry into venture capital, her strategies for distinguishing Mighty Capital in a competitive...
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Kirthiga Reddy's Path to Founding Virtualness and Championing Mothers with Lifterly
In the second episode of She Ventures Forward we sit down with Kirthiga Reddy. From being the first employee at Facebook India, to the first female investing partner at Softbank, to her innovative efforts in blockchain through co - founding Virtualness and empowering women through founding...
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Monisha Perkash and the Lumo Bodytech journey
In the first episode of She Ventures Forward we sit down with entrepreneur Monisha Perkash, co-founder of Lumo Bodytech. In a deep dive into Monisha’s journey, discover how she raised $26 million across Seed, Series A, and Series B funding rounds. From challenges in scaling a hardware-centric...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Only 2 percent of venture capital funding goes to female founders. These founders aren't household names like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, or Bill Gates, but yet they've managed to build remarkable companies and raise venture funding. Welcome to She Ventures Forward, the podcast where we dive deep into the inspiring stories of trailblazing women who secure venture capital funding to build impactful companies and explore the challenges they faced along the way
HOSTED BY
Natalie Abboud
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Only 2 percent of venture capital funding goes to female founders. These founders aren't household names like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, or Bill Gates, but yet they've managed to build remarkable companies and raise venture funding. Welcome to She Ventures Forward, the podcast where we dive deep...
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