Paige Hendrix Buckner is the CEO of All Raise, a community and mission to accelerate the success of female and non-binary founders and funders to build a more prosperous and suitable future. Female representation at the partner level across fund sizes is consistently low, and All Raise is grounded in reality and measurable outcomes.  Prior to All Raise, Paige has founded ClientJoy, a modern business gifting solution that transforms the way professionals show gratitude. 

Find out more about All Raise here: https://www.allraise.org/

Connect with Paige here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paigehendrixbuckner/

Anna is the co-founder and CEO of Trayd, a construction payroll platform designed for same-day pay, replacing multiple outdated solutions with an all-in-one platform designed with payments at its core. Trayd is backed by Y Combinator and the team is based in New York City. Prior to founding Trayd, Anna worked on the global marketing team at Marriott and was the co-founder of Curtn, a video dating app backed by Sam Altman and Joel Simkhai, the founder of Grindr.

In this podcast episode, I'm chatting with Adela Jamal, the General Partner & Co-Founder at Milemark Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm focusing on diverse teams utilizing applied AI to transform existing business models. Adela shares insights into Milemark's investment thesis, emphasizing their commitment to startups leveraging applied AI. She discusses her decision to pursue an MBA at MIT and highlights the importance of normalizing non-linear career paths, especially for women. Adela offers advice for women aspiring to enter the VC space and shares her experiences as a leader advocating for women in business and tech. The episode concludes with Adela debunking the venture capital concept of "Limited Partner".

Listeners can connect with Adela on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adelajamal/

Find all things Brydge Club here:

https://beacons.ai/ruffin

Melody Hahm leads community and platform at Harlem Capital, an early stage venture capital firm. There she is responsible for Harlem's content and partnerships strategy and works closely with the fund's portfolio companies to equip them with resources to succeed. Prior to joining the venture world, Melody was a business and financial reporter. Most recently she was Yahoo Finance's west coast correspondent, covering entrepreneurship and the startups.

Julia O'Mara is the Co-founder and COO of Pickle, the peer-to-peer rental marketplace making it easy and affordable to rent high-quality clothing and accessories within your community and beyond. In less than a year, Pickle introduced a new way to shop , brought 50,000+ items into circulation, and powered lucrative side hustle. Before founding Pickle, Julia served as Senior Product Manager at The Blackstone Group, where she led product analyses for the Investor Relations and Fundraising teams.

Shop Pickle: https://shoponpickle.com/

Connect w/ Julia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-o-mara/

Julie Wroblewski, the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Magnify Ventures, which debuted a $52M fund investing into the care economy. Before launching Magnify, Julie spent over a decade as an investor and advisor with institutional-scale family offices and mission-focused organizations, including Pivotal Ventures, led by Melinda French Gates. Julie is a Kauffman Fellow, member of All Raise, and a frequent speaker on purpose-driven venture capital, gender lens investing, and the care economy.

Steph is the founder of PIN (Power in Numbers), a VC-backed company that enables communities of people (like people from Stanford, YC, and Coinbase) to invest in startups together. She's also writes the newsletter, "Demystifying VC", to help founders navigate the fundraising process and to teach new angels about early stage investing. Steph was formerly a VC at NEA where she helped invest over $150M. And she’s also a graduate of Stanford GSB.

Find Steph & PIN:

https://www.getpin.xyz/

Amber is a General Partner and full-time investor at The Council Fund, where she invests at Pre-seed stage in software built for legacy industries like Construction, Logistics, and Healthcare.

Maggie Zheng is the Head of Fundraising at Wefunder, a YC company, where she works with early and growth stage startups.

Before Wefunder, she was the sixth employee and Chief of Staff at Doorvest, building it from pre-seed to post Series A, working across many functions including product, marketing, operations, and strategy.

Maggie is also an investor at Potluck VC, a venture firm focusing on AAPI founded growth stage companies.

Connect with Maggie:

LinkedIn

TikTok

All things Brydge Club: https://beacons.ai/ruffin

Kristine Locker is the Founder and CEO of Locker, the social commerce platform supporting shoppers at every step of their consumer journey, from initial discovery until purchase. Locker enables users to save any product they want while browsing online into one, organized place. As an avid online shopper, Kristine found herself constantly taking screenshots of products or keeping dozens of tabs open, but there wasn't a platform that provided the utility or social aspect she craved as an "everyday" consumer and non-influencer.

Kristine's story of becoming a founder is unconventional. She spent her first two years out of school as a real estate analyst at Goldman Sachs, then worked alongside her dad as a commercial real estate broker. But, something in her gut told her that Locker was worth risking it all. She stepped away from a lucrative and stable career in 2020 and invested every penny she had into building Locker - so she could provide the solution to the problem that she and millions of other shoppers face.

Connect with Kristine: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinelocker/

Download Locker! https://www.wantlocker.com/

More from Brydge Club: https://beacons.ai/ruffin