In July 2016, Paul Singh, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Bump Health, joined High Alpha Partner Kristian Andersen for our monthly Speaker Series.

Bump Health is a company that serves mom before, during and after pregnancy. He is also founder of Results Junkies, a company that invests in 200 companies each year by driving across North America and visiting cities. The company has a portfolio of over 2000 companies it has invested in.

In this episode, we revisit Paul’s Speaker Series where you’ll learn:

• His background and investing thesis

In August of 2017, High Alpha welcomed Lisa Coca, as our featured guest at our August Speaker Series. At the time of the interview, Lisa was the Managing Director of Corporate Venture Investments and Commercial Development at GE Ventures. In addition to her role as Managing Director at GE Ventures, Lisa was also the architect of GE Ventures' EDGE program which leverages the global scale, expertise and resources of GE to provide start-up partners with programs and tools to help them grow and scale their enterprise.

Prior to joining GE Ventures, her professional career spanned a number of other disciplines including finance, sales & marketing, strategy, and business development at major financial institutions such as GE Capital, Bankers Trust, and Deutsche Bank.

Lisa is now a Partner at Toyota Ventures, where she serves as the lead for the Climate Fund. In this role, she invests in the best entrepreneurs developing technologies and solutions focused on fighting climate change.

In this episode, we revisit Lisa’s Speaker Series where you’ll learn:

• Key learnings from her experiences in venture capital

In November 2016, Alex Bard, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures, joined High Alpha Managing Partner Scott Dorsey for our monthly Speaker Series.

Prior to Redpoint Ventures, Alex served as Chief Executive Officer at Campaign Monitor. Alex has also served as Executive Vice President & General Manager of the Service Cloud business at Salesforce.com, which acquired Assistly, Inc., where Alex served as Founder and Chief Executive Officer. He currently serves as a member of the board of directors of several privately held companies.

In this episode, we revisit Alex’s Speaker Series where you’ll learn:

• Alex's entrepreneurial journey and his experience starting and exiting companies

In May 2017, Founder and General Partner of Emergence Capital, Gordon Ritter joined High Alpha Managing Partner Scott Dorsey for our monthly Speaker Series. 

Prior to founding Emergence, Gordon spent over fifteen years founding and building companies that pioneered new markets. One of these was Software As Service, a web services platform company he co-founded with Marc Benioff. Before that, he ran IBM’s $3 billion Global Small Business division.

Gordon gave a presentation around the Rise of Coaching Networks and the next era of software that won’t be based on forms. In this episode, we revisit Gordon’s Speaker Series where you’ll learn:

• Gordon’s background in SaaS and his coaching network thesis

In August 2019, Kobie Fuller, General Partner at Upfront Ventures, joined High Alpha Partner Eric Tobias for our monthly Speaker Series.

Kobie joined Upfront in 2016 after having previously been an investor at Accel. Prior to Accel, Kobie was the Chief Marketing Officer at LA-based REVOLVE, one of the largest players in the global fashion e-commerce ecosystem. He has deep knowledge of emerging sectors including VR and AR and was an early investor in Oculus and ExactTarget. Earlier in his career, Kobie helped found OpenView Venture Partners and was an investor at Insight Venture Partners. 

In this episode, we revisit Kobie’s Speaker Series where you’ll learn:

• Kobie’s journey into Venture Capital

On June 17, 2020 Freestyle Capital General Partner Jenny Lefcourt joined High Alpha Partner Kristian Andersen for our monthly Speaker Series. Together, they discussed Jenny’s career, her path into venture capital, and her involvement with All Raise.

Jenny’s career spans corporate America, consumer startups, founding companies, and investing. After graduating from the Wharton School and spending a year backpacking around the world, she worked for a Palo Alto-based consumer software company through its IPO. Later, she founded WeddingChannel.com and Bella Pictures, both of which went on to be acquired. Today, she spends her days meeting with entrepreneurs and working alongside Freestyle Capital portfolio companies, including BetterUp, Narvar and Daily.co. Jenny is also a founding, active member of All Raise, a non-profit dedicated to increasing diversity in tech.

In this episode, we revisit Jenny’s Speaker Series where you’ll learn:

• Jenny's investment and decision-making frameworks

On June 24th, 2021, Seth Levine joined High Alpha Partner Kristian Andersen for a conversation about his new book, The New Builders, and his career working with startups for 20+ years.

Seth Levine is currently involved in venture capital investing as well as operational, transactional, and advisory roles at both public and private companies. He is a Partner and Co-Founder of the Foundry Group. 

Seth Levine began his venture capital career at Mobius Venture Capital. Prior to Mobius Venture Capital, Seth Levine joined FirstWorld Communications, which is a restart of a data communications company. He then led the IPO process for FirstWorld’s IPO in 2000 and negotiated simultaneous equity investments from Microsoft, SAIC, and Lucent Technologies.

In this episode, we revisit Seth’s Speaker Series where you’ll learn:

• The catalyst for his latest book, The New Builders 

On January 13, 2021, Mary Grove joined High Alpha Partner Eric Tobias for a virtual fireside chat about her career and the lessons she’s learned working with startups.

Mary Grove is Managing Partner of Bread and Butter Ventures. She brings nearly two decades of leadership experience in technology, early stage investing, and startup ecosystem growth. She began her career working on the Google IPO, and went on to lead new business development partnerships, negotiating early stage product and technology deals worldwide. Mary then served as the founding director of Google for Startups, leading the company’s global efforts to support entrepreneurs in over 100 countries.

After her 15 year career at Google, Mary worked as an investment partner at Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund where she led dozens of investments in a range of sectors including healthcare, enterprise software, and fintech. She also built the fund’s portfolio support platform and built a network of over 150 mentors and partners to guide startup growth.

She is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Silicon North Stars, a nonprofit that she and her husband Steve founded in 2013 to help young Minnesotans from underserved communities pursue careers in tech.

In this episode, we revisit Mary’s Speaker Series where you’ll learn:

• How to be proactive about diversity in LPs, founders, & hiring

On September 29, 2020, Brad Feld, Managing Partner at Foundry Group and High Alpha Managing Partner Scott Dorsey sat down for a discussion on building startup communities as part of High Alpha’s monthly Speaker Series.

Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures. Brad is also a co-founder of Techstars.

Brad is a writer and speaker on the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship. He’s written a number of books as part of the Startup Revolution series and writes the blogs Feld Thoughts and Venture Deals. His latest book, “The Startup Community Way,” was released in July 2020.

In this episode, we revisit Brad’s Speaker Series where you’ll learn:

• The startup ecosystem’s growth

On August 25th, 2021, Carlotta Siniscalco, Principal at Emergence Capital sat down with High Alpha Managing Partner Scott Dorsey for an interview unpacking her experience as an enterprise technology venture investor and her mission to elevate underrepresented founders in the world of tech, VC, and entrepreneurship.

Prior to joining Emergence Capital, Carlotta was an investor in financial services and financial technology companies at Advent International, a large global private equity fund. At Advent, Carlotta worked on acquisitions both in Europe (including the carve-out of Cartasi/Nexi from ICBPI) and in the United States, and was a board observer at Transunion. She also spent time in the Business Operations group at Nerdwallet (a fintech startup) and was an early-stage investor at Ribbit Capital, a fintech-focused VC.

In this episode, we revisit Carlotta’s Speaker Series where you’ll learn:

• The ingredients that lead to successful founders