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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Anna Mason, Managing Partner of Ingeborg Investments, a venture-investment fund within the Family Office of Olivia Walton. Ingeborg focuses on investing in female founders and other female fund managers. They invest in innovation that is built with women in mind.

Anna previously was a Managing Partner at Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, where she worked from 2016-2022. While there, Anna helped lead the transformation of Rise of the Rest from a startup-community bus tour initiative to a fund with $300M in AUM and a mandate to find alpha in overlooked U.S. geographies.

Anna has 20 years of experience across Wall Street, venture capital, and the startup world. She received her BA from Harvard College and her MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business. She was a 2022 Presidential Leadership Fellow, was named to Fortune’s 40 Under 40 in 2020, Business Insider’s list of 100 People Transforming Business in 2019, and a Washingtonian Tech Titan in 2017 and 2018.

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Haley Kwait Zollo is a Partner at Starting Line and was the first full-time addition to the team in July, 2019. Starting Line is an early stage venture capital fund that invests in consumer technology companies. Haley assists with everything from deal sourcing and diligence to portfolio and fund operational support.

Prior to joining Starting Line, Haley spent over half a decade leading venture-backed consumer retail startups. Most recently she was VP of Business Operations and Strategy at Mac & Mia, a personalized clothing service for children. Haley came on as one of the first 10 employees, scaled their remote sales team from 3 to 300 and helped lead their Series A of $5M. Mac & Mia was acquired by Stitch Fix Kids in the summer of 2019. Before joining Mac & Mia, Haley was an early hire at Trunk Club where she built the Strategy & Data Analytics team and was a key player in launching their Women’s line. Trunk Club was acquired by Nordstrom in 2014 for $350M.\

Haley started her career at KPMG in the Transaction Services practice, where she worked on financial due diligence deals for private equity mergers and acquisitions. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Accounting from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and also earned a CPA upon graduation. In her free time, Haley enjoys playing pickleball and teaching poker!

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Chermaine Hu, is the co-founder and CFO of Episode Six (E6), a leading global provider of enterprise-grade card issuing and ledger infrastructure. After a 14-year career in M&A banking at Morgan Stanley in London and New York, she co-founded E6 in 2015 with John Mitchell and Futeh Kao to modernize how banks, fintechs, and brands design and deliver payments solutions. Today, she oversees the company’s financial strategy and global growth, guiding operations across 45+ countries.

Imagine a world where 21st century opportunity isn’t constrained by decades-old technology. Episode Six helps banks, fintechs and brands leave legacy payments technology behind, leapfrog their competition, and build payments products their customers love.

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Jessie is Principal and Head of Strategic Initiatives at Gratitude Railroad. She leads the firm’s Inclusive Capital strategy to catalyze investments to diverse-led and emerging impact funds. She also oversees Gratitude’s growing community of active investors and members. Prior to Gratitude Jessie worked at the intersection of finance, tech, and impact in New York City. She led corporate fundraising and partnerships at Pursuit, an innovative workforce non-profit, and was a founding member at venture-backed startup Smart Vision Labs. She started her career at BlackRock serving as chief of staff to the CEO. She holds a BA from Duke University and an MBA from Berkeley Haas. She is based in Los Angeles.

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Emma Pratt, the co-founder of Girl Math Capital, a rapidly growing community designed to expand women’s access to alternative investing across angel, real estate, and crypto. She leads education, deal flow, and community strategy while actively investing in better-for-you consumer brands such as Ghia, Vacation, and Realm. Prior to building Girl Math Capital full-time, Emma worked in M&A and Strategic Finance at Uber and began her career in investment banking at Bank of America. She graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Psychology and a minor in Business.

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