ABOUT US
Amplifyher is a Venture Capital firm that invests in visionary founders with diverse leadership teams.
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%.
As value-investors, 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.
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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.
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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.
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Tricia has been investing in female founders for 10 years. She received her B.A. from the University of Rhode Island.
Meghan Cross
Partner
Meghan joins Amplifyher as a startup operator and investor.
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Previously as the founding Managing Partner of Red Bear Angels, she built the Cornell alumni angel network of 100+ accredited investors and led 20+ investments including Lyft. Meghan received her venture training from Foundation Capital and Bowery Capital. Prior to investing, she was an early Director at StyleCaster, Inc (acq. She Knows Media), a publication that pioneered the convergence of media and technology. She was a PR specialist for Skype and Foursquare at their early stages.
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Meghan received her B.S. in Fiber Science from Cornell University and M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
Priya Purewal
MBA Associate
Priya joins Amplifyher as an M.B.A. Candidate at Columbia Business School. Previously at Deloitte, Priya focused on developing global technology solutions for Financial Services clients, but served clients in a variety of industries including TMT (Technology, Media, and Telecommunications), Consumer and Product Goods, and Professional Services. Outside of client service, Priya worked on a variety of entrepreneurial initiatives, including consulting for grassroots organizations in Central America and working with Deloitte’s Future of Mobility team. Priya received her B.B.A from the University of Texas at Austin.
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