ABOUT US
Amplifyher is a Venture Capital firm that invests in diverse leadership teams with a unique ability to create flywheel effects of growth in new markets.
We are opportunistic investors.
15% of VC dollars go to gender-mixed teams, even though those teams out-perform all-male founding teams by 63%.
We don't see women as under-funded, we see them as untapped.
We want to see more women in the C-Suite.
Women make up one in five C-Suite leaders and less than 5% of CEOs.
Amplifyher arms outstanding women with the resources and capital needed to build their own C-Suites.
And there's no better time to make it happen.
We are at an inflection point in venture for female empowerment.
The conversation of gender parity is at its prime, but the numbers still show a significant gap in financing. Let's change that.
TEAM
Tricia Black
General Partner and Founder
Tricia founded Amplifyher Ventures with the mission to put more women in leadership roles. In doing so, she believes there will be more mentors and paved paths for fellow female operators.
Tricia is a venture capitalist who previously held executive sales and marketing roles for a number of high-growth businesses, including Collegiate Advantage, Student Advantage, and Y2M Youth Media & Marketing.
Tricia was the first VP of Sales of Facebook. As the company’s 7th employee, Tricia built Facebook’s early sales team, cultivated initial advertising relationships, and helped brands navigate the changing landscape of advertising during the shift to social media.
Tricia has been investing in female founders for 10 years. She received her B.A. from the University of Rhode Island. She sits on the Women's Leadership Board at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Meghan Cross
Partner
Meghan manages investment strategy and operations at Amplifyher Ventures. Prior to Amplifyher, she was Managing Director at Red Bear Angels, leading the firm's investments into 25+ companies including Lyft [NASDAQ: LYFT], Datalogue [acq. Nike], Grokstyle [acq. Meta], Rosie [acq. Instacart] and Trumid, and sat on the Board of Eversound. Her angel investments include Sequioia-backed Maven Clinic, Ellevest, Urban Umbrella, and Privy [acq. Attentive].
A United Nations UN Week speaker, Meghan writes for TechCrunch and Forbes and lectures at Columbia University & Yeshiva University. She has appeared on The Today Show, CNN's The Situation Room, & Cheddar TV. She is a Board leader at the Lincoln Center Young Patrons and Facing History, an education nonprofit that furthers diversity and inclusion.
Meghan was previously on the ground-floor marketing teams for Skype and Foursquare at Kaplow Communications, before becoming a director at the leading post-dot-com media company, StyleCaster Media Group [acq. She Knows Media]. She received her venture training from Foundation Capital and Bowery Capital.
Meghan received her B.S. in Fiber Science from Cornell University and M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
