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Women-owned businesses generate $1.8T / year, yet receive 2% of VC funding. @HalogenVC is changing the trajectory.
For 30 days, we’re highlighting #femalefounders to showcase this $Trillion opportunity.
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Jesse Draper
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Jesse Draper
@JesseDraper
Founder & Investor @halogenvc . Put on this Earth to encourage women in the workplace. Board Member @carbon38 @preemadonna @trustandwill Mom of 3 boys.
- Invest in women.
- We raised $21 Million for Fund 2! No easy road. 85 investors. 2 years. Covid. Hundred of meetings. We now have 62 companies. $40M AUM, 100% female founders and we’re just getting going! businesswire.com/news/home/2021…
- I just discovered that I was the first female solo GP in Los Angeles and #Crunchbase just reminded me that we have done 106 investments @HalogenVC ! Something to be celebrated! 100% female founders! #femalefounders #investinwomen #halogenvc #losangelestech
- Investing In Women Isn’t A Fucking Charity and it's more important than ever. Please check out this piece I wrote. link.medium.com/VfS7mffu99 #venturecapital #rbg #investinwomen
- It looks like Peter Thiel paid to put out a press release about SVB earlier today. Was he shorting the stock? Any insights here? Please share. #SVB
- In 1789 Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to James Madison stating that the American Constitution should lapse and become null and void in 1808 (every 19 years). He believed that ‘the Earth belongs to the living and not to the dead’.
- This international pandemic has dug up some silly things from my past. I was once on a #Nickelodeon show in another lifetime, if you want to see our first reunion in 10 years for Naked Brother's Band, tune in on Saturday at 2PM. More details to come. #NBBReunion2020 Woot!
- In the last year, women have lost 5.4 Million jobs. We need to get women back to work. We need to invest in women who are solving problems like affordable childcare and creating work from home capabilities and tools to help families thrive. These problems will be solved by women.
- We are fundraising for our 3rd fund and we’re able to disclose this publicly now. Please let me know if you or anyone you know would like more information on @HalogenVC - we have incredible LPs and would love to add you to our Halogen family. [email protected] #investinwomen
- I woke up at 5, am drinking coffee in silence, doing emails and reading some fluffy news for once. Any Moms out there wake up significantly before their kids every morning? Beautiful day.
- The amount of messages I’m getting from Moms who are having to quit their jobs to take care of their children due to both childcare workers shortages and the cost is staggering. What are the top 3 things that will solve this?
