I'm a senior editor at Forbes covering venture capital and startups, especially in cloud and AI, out of New York. I edit the Midas List and Under 30 for VC, and created the Midas List Europe and Cloud 100 lists. I've written more than a dozen cover stories on business leaders including Marc Benioff, Patrick Collison and Melanie Perkins.
The prolific online poster at Wischoff Ventures plans to write checks of $1 million or so into startups in areas like the “new supply chain” from her Nashville-based fund.
“She’s been handy for us in navigating so many situations like that,” said Garton-Smith, who asked Wischoff to join his board as an observer following the crisis. “She’s everything, she’s everywhere.” “A big focus for me is trying to bring the physical world online,” said Wischoff, calling her focus ‘the new supply chain.’ “We want to create chemistry in the portfolio so these companies can be each other’s customers.”
Blend would go public via SPAC in 2021 at a $4 billion valuation . But Wischoff was long gone, bored by the “stuffy culture” of a scaled-up business and having joined neobank One in 2019. There she served as a vice president of strategy and partnerships for a year-plus before departing for another startup that brought her to Nashville, Built Technologies, the following year.
Wischoff turned the potentially ugly situation into a marketing boost, printing “third tier VC” merchandise for supporters of her firm. “At first I was embarrassed by it, then I realized people love it because they root for an underdog,” she said. “But he doesn’t get any credit for helping to build me or my brand.”
As Wischoff grows her firm, she plans to hire more staff, including another investor to join Mintz; she’s opening a New York office and plans to split her time there to be closer to more startups, she added. For now, Wischoff plans to remain a rare solo woman general partner, however; she said she embraces her role as a positive example, despite historically not wanting to be defined by her gender or underrepresented status.
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