Esther Eller

Investor | Educator | New Ventures and Innovation | Seasoned Entrepreneur | Strategic Advisor to Enterprises and Startups

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2016
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2024
Lecturer - Social Venture Building
Jun 2024
UCLA offers a combination that’s rare, especially among public research universities. The breadth, depth and inspired excellence among academic programs—from the visual and performing arts to the humanities, social sciences, STEM disciplines and health sciences—add up to endless opportunity. The location is unmatched: a campus that is unexpectedly picturesque and compact, set in a thriving and diverse global city.
Venture Partner
May 2024
What if you could future-proof your business? What if you could de-risk new product introductions? Corusol helps you develop ideas into products that customers want and need. Apply the principles of entrepreneurship to your company through our - Internal Accelerators - Workshops - Customized Programs Corusol provides leadership in innovation using learn-by- doing methods. The result? Our programs help you transform ideas into scalable products and fundable businesses. With roots in both Wall Street and entrepreneurship, female-owned has facilitated remarkable programs for the Fortune 25, the Global 2000, universities and startups. Wed love to work with you too.
2023
Co-Founder
Jun 2023
Our platform empowers PEOs, Level Funded Plans, Association Health Plans, and Brokers & GAs with group health portfolio insights that drive strategy through a streamlined SaaS solution. The platform supports new business insights, competitive market insights, renewal insights & book of business mgmt. insights.
early stageInsurance
Co-Founder & COO
Jun 2023
The word Zoë is Greek for “life” or “to give birth”, it reflects our vision to bring life to the employee benefits industry through giving birth to our portfolio of companies. We value our culture and deeply believe in return on character: We dream to build a culture centered company that truly embodies life at its fullest. We’ve seen first hand that happy employees make the biggest and most impactful dents in the world even in small numbers. Our goal is to embed this into all of our portfolio companies starting with the Employee Benefits space. Our unique focus in Employee Benefits: Our mission is to build the next generation of companies who will elevate the Employee Benefits Space. We have designed our focus around everything a founder would need to be successful in founding and exiting in this space. We do this by providing a community of employee benefits experts, capital and turn-key resources to be the best co-founder possible. We’ve also strategically placed industry giants representing the ecosystem on our cap table. This will help drive efficient market validation engagements and swiftly build meaningful momentum for our portfolio companies. Superman vs Ironman: Traditional investing is looking for the “Superman” - the search for perfection. Venture Studios is the creation of the great - “Ironman”. We’re taking the already knowledgeable individual and providing them an Ironman suit. Every subject matter expert can become an ironman with Zoë Foundry. The perfect co-founder: We believe the best founders are already subject matter experts in their field. We are specifically looking for co-founders who have been in this industry for a number of years or have failed or succeeded in founding a company in this space. The perfect co-founder will have some background in product development and/or have magical talents selling into the space. We will provide everything else.
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