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Las Olas Venture Capital is a new Florida-based early stage fund that invests in startups in a variety of industries. Our mission is to find outstanding entrepreneurs in non-obvious places and maximize their impact by connecting them to networks of capital, talent, and customers in well-established startup ecosystems.

We invest in extraordinary people who are building the future. This means technology that can redefine existing industries and create new ones. We call these people superheroes and transformers. They typically have asymmetrical insight into a particular industry and the superpowers for building products that create ascending user networks, which as a result drive transformational value.

http://www.lasolasvc.com

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https://www.linkedin.com/company/las-olas-venture-capital?trk=top_nav_home

Rachel Braun Scherl is a proven expert in business-building for female health companies. Through SPARK Solutions for Growth, Rachel has driven innovation and created revenue growth for leading pharma, beauty and consumer health companies, including Allergan, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Bayer, Merck, and Church & Dwight. Her brand experience includes Advil, Aveeno, Botox, Carefree, Centrum, Chapstick, Coppertone, Johnson’s Baby, Listerine, Neutrogena, ob, Splenda, Stayfree, Trojan, Tylenol and Zestra.

As part of "Rachel Talks" keynote speaker series, Rachel has presented to global audiences on Business-Building, Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Women in Business. Rachel has spoken at prestigious venues, including Johnson & Johnson, Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, Pennsylvania Conference for Women, The Fuqua School at Duke University, Barnard College Athena Center for Leadership Studies, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Yale School of Management, Fairleigh Dickinson Silberman College of Business and Montclair State University Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship.

Career Highlights:

*Rachel has built a client base including some of the world’s leading organizations as Principal at SPARK;

*As Co-Founder of Semprae Laboratories, Rachel led the growth of the company leading to its sale to Innovus Pharmaceuticals Inc.

*Recipient of Best 50 Women in Business by NJBiz , SmartCEO’s BRAVA Award and JWI’s 10 Women to Watch.

Rachel has been featured for her work in Women’s Health and Leadership on ABC News, CBS, msnbc, AdAge, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Lifetime, Oprah Radio, FOX News, WPIX, Inc., & Forbes. She has a regular column at Huffington Post and writes for Inc. Rachel is a Board member of illumai & Advisory Board Member at Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, The Fuqua School of Business.

Rachel is open to LinkedIn requests from Marketing Directors & Meeting Planners of Women in Business & Healthcare Conferences.

http://sparksolutionsforgrowth.com

https://www.linkedin.com/company/spark-solutions-for-growth

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Spark-Solutions-for-Growth/537880806311488

https://twitter.com/sparkbizgrowth

Rachel Braun Scherl is a proven expert in business-building for female health companies. Through SPARK Solutions for Growth, Rachel has driven innovation and created revenue growth for leading pharma, beauty and consumer health companies, including Allergan, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Bayer, Merck, and Church & Dwight. Her brand experience includes Advil, Aveeno, Botox, Carefree, Centrum, Chapstick, Coppertone, Johnson’s Baby, Listerine, Neutrogena, ob, Splenda, Stayfree, Trojan, Tylenol and Zestra.

As part of "Rachel Talks" keynote speaker series, Rachel has presented to global audiences on Business-Building, Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Women in Business. Rachel has spoken at prestigious venues, including Johnson & Johnson, Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, Pennsylvania Conference for Women, The Fuqua School at Duke University, Barnard College Athena Center for Leadership Studies, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Yale School of Management, Fairleigh Dickinson Silberman College of Business and Montclair State University Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship.

Career Highlights:

*Rachel has built a client base including some of the world’s leading organizations as Principal at SPARK;

*As Co-Founder of Semprae Laboratories, Rachel led the growth of the company leading to its sale to Innovus Pharmaceuticals Inc.

*Recipient of Best 50 Women in Business by NJBiz , SmartCEO’s BRAVA Award and JWI’s 10 Women to Watch.

Rachel has been featured for her work in Women’s Health and Leadership on ABC News, CBS, msnbc, AdAge, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Lifetime, Oprah Radio, FOX News, WPIX, Inc., & Forbes. She has a regular column at Huffington Post and writes for Inc. Rachel is a Board member of illumai & Advisory Board Member at Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, The Fuqua School of Business.

Rachel is open to LinkedIn requests from Marketing Directors & Meeting Planners of Women in Business & Healthcare Conferences.

http://sparksolutionsforgrowth.com

https://www.linkedin.com/company/spark-solutions-for-growth

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Spark-Solutions-for-Growth/537880806311488

https://twitter.com/sparkbizgrowth

Brian OliverSmith brings the Voice of Experience, Inspiration, Performance, and Leadership to every project. With more than 30-years developing global companies, high performing teams, and a wealth of international cross-industry relationships, BOS Performance leads you, your team, your company to performing at top levels, consistently, achieving and surpassing your goals.

http://bosperformance.com

https://www.facebook.com/BOS-Performance-294747384229668

https://twitter.com/BOS_performance

Brian OliverSmith brings the Voice of Experience, Inspiration, Performance, and Leadership to every project. With more than 30-years developing global companies, high performing teams, and a wealth of international cross-industry relationships, BOS Performance leads you, your team, your company to performing at top levels, consistently, achieving and surpassing your goals.

http://bosperformance.com

https://www.facebook.com/BOS-Performance-294747384229668

https://twitter.com/BOS_performance

Golden Seeds is a network of angel investors dedicated to investing in early stage companies founded and/or led by women. Golden Seeds has more than 250 accredited investors, with locations in New York, Boston, Silicon Valley, and Dallas.

Members invest directly or through a managed fund in sectors that include consumer products, technology, software and life sciences. Members also participate in screening and supporting these new businesses with their expertise and experience.

Our culture at Golden Seeds is based on four core values:

• Trust: We operate with transparency and respect confidentiality of information entrusted to us.

• Innovation: We expect innovation and creativity to drive value for the future.

• Collaboration: We enjoy collaboration with our investors, advisors, co-investors, entrepreneurs,

clients and strategic partners, as our collective intelligence exceeds and improves on our individual efforts.

• Respect: We admire autonomy and respect individual rights, including the right to find work/life

balance on one’s own terms.

http://www.goldenseeds.com

https://twitter.com/GoldenSeeds

https://www.facebook.com/goldenseeds

Golden Seeds is a network of angel investors dedicated to investing in early stage companies founded and/or led by women. Golden Seeds has more than 250 accredited investors, with locations in New York, Boston, Silicon Valley, and Dallas.

Members invest directly or through a managed fund in sectors that include consumer products, technology, software and life sciences. Members also participate in screening and supporting these new businesses with their expertise and experience.

Our culture at Golden Seeds is based on four core values:

• Trust: We operate with transparency and respect confidentiality of information entrusted to us.

• Innovation: We expect innovation and creativity to drive value for the future.

• Collaboration: We enjoy collaboration with our investors, advisors, co-investors, entrepreneurs,

clients and strategic partners, as our collective intelligence exceeds and improves on our individual efforts.

• Respect: We admire autonomy and respect individual rights, including the right to find work/life

balance on one’s own terms.

http://www.goldenseeds.com

https://twitter.com/GoldenSeeds

https://www.facebook.com/goldenseeds

I headed up data science monetization at Foursquare and have worked as a data scientist and quant at Andressen Horowitz, Google, and JPMorgan. I founded The Data Incubator, a data science education company based in NYC, DC, and SF with both corporate training as well as recruiting services. For data science corporate training, we offer customized, in-house corporate training solutions in data and analytics. For data science hiring, we run a free 8 week fellowship training PhDs to become data scientists. The fellowship selects 2% of its 2000+ quarterly applicants and is free for fellows. Hiring companies only pay a recruiting fee only if they successfully hire. You can read about us on Harvard Business Review, Tech Crunch, Venture Beat, The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, or The Next Web, or read about our alumni at LinkedIn, Capital One, Palantir, Amazon or the NYTimes.

https://www.thedataincubator.com

https://twitter.com/thedatainc

https://www.facebook.com/dataincubator

I headed up data science monetization at Foursquare and have worked as a data scientist and quant at Andressen Horowitz, Google, and JPMorgan. I founded The Data Incubator, a data science education company based in NYC, DC, and SF with both corporate training as well as recruiting services. For data science corporate training, we offer customized, in-house corporate training solutions in data and analytics. For data science hiring, we run a free 8 week fellowship training PhDs to become data scientists. The fellowship selects 2% of its 2000+ quarterly applicants and is free for fellows. Hiring companies only pay a recruiting fee only if they successfully hire. You can read about us on Harvard Business Review, Tech Crunch, Venture Beat, The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, or The Next Web, or read about our alumni at LinkedIn, Capital One, Palantir, Amazon or the NYTimes.

https://www.thedataincubator.com

https://twitter.com/thedatainc

https://www.facebook.com/dataincubator

Alphalab Gear is a hardware and robotic startup accelerator that provides physical product companies with investment, mentorship and connections.

http://www.alphalabgear.org

The AlphaLab Gear National Hardware Cup application is open to early-stage startups that create at least one physical product. 6 teams will be selected in each city to give a 4-minute pitch to judging teams made up of local VCs and Hardware CEOs.

http://alphalabgear.org/hardwarecup