Dulari Amin, entrepreneur, investor, and growth strategist with 20+ years of experience scaling companies from early-stage to post-IPO across consumer, technology, and healthcare. She is the co-founder of Sidelines, a growth advisory platform that connects strategic capital and support services to founders reimagining their industries. Sidelines focuses on companies Series A and beyond, collaborating with industry leaders, service providers, and media partners to accelerate growth and exit.

Previously, Dulari was part of the executive team at Cue Health, helping scale the company from R&D to a $3B IPO.She spearheaded brand partnerships with companies like Google, Mayo Clinic, and the NBA, built a best-in-class marketing team, and played a key role in the company’s IPO alongside underwriters Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.

Prior to Cue, Dulari founded Phenomenon, a business transformation agency, growing it to $100M+ revenue and over 120 employees before successfully exiting to private equity in 2016. She led the full M&A process and oversaw operations, finance, HR, and legal while managing key client relationships with clients.

As an angel investor, she has deployed personal capital across healthcare, CPG, and technology, with investments ranging from $10M to $1B+ valuations and three IPOs. Her portfolio includes brands such as De Soi, Live Tinted, True Foods Kitchen, Goodles, Giadzy, and Repurpose.

Dulari has served on the boards of Woodbury University, Beyond Capital, and Larchmont Charter. She has been recognized by Ad Age, Inc. 500, and LA Business Journal, LA Times, and has spoken at Milken Institute and EY. She holds executive education from Harvard Business School and graduated Summa Cum Laude from FIT.

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Courtney McCrae is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Recast Capital, an investment platform established to invest in and support emerging managers in venture capital, with a preference for diverse partnerships.

Prior to co-founding Recast, Courtney was a Managing Director of Weathergage Capital, a boutique fund of funds that provided its clients with access to premier venture capital, growth equity and micro-VC partnerships. Venture fund commitments included both brand name funds and emerging managers. In addition to fund investment responsibilities, Courtney led the direct co investing program at Weathergage. During her 10 year tenure at Weathergage, Courtney made commitments to 100 funds and seven direct co-investments.

Prior to Weathergage, Courtney was a General Partner with Weston Presidio, a leading diversified private equity firm based in San Francisco. After 7 years at Weston Presidio, she left in 2004 and founded Silver Partners, a private equity advisory firm where she evaluated secondary and co investment opportunities and advised consumer growth businesses. Courtney was also a Director at Sterling Stamos, where she managed investments in buyout funds, venture capital funds and hedge funds.

Earlier in her career, Courtney made equity co-investments as an Assistant Vice President at PPM America. She also spent 5 years at GE Capital where she worked on private equity, senior and subordinated debt investing.

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Hi everyone. I’m Laura Nix Gerson host of the Venture:F podcast. I launched this podcast and platform two years ago for a multitude of reasons. As I entered my 50’s I realized I didn’t know enough about growing my wealth and investing. And I am not alone - so many women my age feel like they need to learn more but don’t know where to begin.

Additionally, I have been advising and working with start-ups for more than twenty years, and one of the many challenges that diverse founders continue to face is that of raising capital. But I believe that if more women grow their wealth and learn to invest - we will see more women investing in women.

I am not a financial expert, but I know a lot of financial experts, investors and women in finance. These are incredibly smart women who know a lot about a variety of topics when it comes to money. And Venture:F brings them to you. We interview leading experts on growing wealth, how to build your stock portfolio, what it takes to start angel investing, what is venture capital, how to invest using your Donor Advised Fund, real estate investing, and so much more. I am so lucky to get to interview these brilliant women, learn from them, and share that insight with all of you.

We also skim investing news and share highlights on our Substack and have built Guides and resources to help you find communities and events so that you can join other like-minded women on this journey, You are not alone.

We are at a unique moment in time where women, money, and power are converging. We’re seeing this on Wall Street and within financial institutions as more women step into financial leadership roles from the C suite, to the boardroom, and even in the investing community with the rising number of women launching or joining venture funds.

We’re entering into an era of women’s wealth enlightenment or financial wellness - however you want to coin it - as more women take an active interest in their personal finances. As a result or perhaps synergistically, there are communities and platforms popping up everywhere to fulfill women’s need to learn more and take a more active role in their financial and investing decisions.

Additionally we are about to experience the largest wealth transfer in history with $80T dollars transferring from baby boomers to their heirs. 66% of the wealth in the US will be in the hands of women. How these inheritors invest that money will impact everything.

Taking those 3 things into account, I’d say women are in the strongest position ever to be in charge of the money. And if the data is correct, women will use that money to invest in the things that matter most to us - family care, healthcare, education, technology that improves our lives, the environment, and companies led by…women.

So buckle up, tune in, and get ready for this next season of the Venture:F podcast.

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