Melody Koh—NextView Ventures

05/31/23 • 67 min

Melody Koh is a Partner at NextView Ventures, a high conviction, hands-on seed stage investor that backs founders building technology companies to redesign the everyday economy. Before joining NextView, Melody was Head of Product at Blue Apron. She'd joined as Blue Apron's first product hire and then scaled the business through hyper-growth (25x in 3.5 years) and IPO. In this episode of The Deal, Melody shares what led her back to venture after her time at Blue Apron, launching her own startup while pursuing an MBA at Harvard Business School, how she evaluates prospective investments at NextView, and how founders can stand out in a sea of deal flow.

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Cassie Young—Primary Venture Partners

Cassie Young is a General Partner at Primary Venture Partners. In addition to leading software investments at Primary, Cassie also manages the firm's portfolio impact program, Primary Impact. In this episode of The Deal, Cassie shares her thoughts on what has driven explosive tech ecosystem growth in NYC over the past decade, the power of Primary Impact for her fund's seed stage founders, Primary’s own incubation program, and how she's personally navigated her career as an operator-investor in New York.

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Ben Lerer—Lerer Hippeau

Ben Lerer, Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau, is a former founder (credits include Thrillist) turned investor and native New Yorker. Ben built Lerer Hippeau to bridge a gap he personally faced as a startup founder: 15 years ago it was nearly impossible to find venture capital funding in New York City. Today, New York City's startup ecosystem rivals that of Silicon Valley and Lerer Hippeau's portfolio contains more than 400 leading consumer and enterprise companies, including Guideline, MIRROR, Blockdaemon, K Health, Allbirds, ZenBusiness, and Palmetto, among others. In this episode of The Deal, Ben shares what he's learned from launching startups, how the Lerer Hippeau team supports its portfolio companies, his thoughts on the evolution of venture capital, and why the most important question you can ask early-stage founders is: "why now?"

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