NanaYaa Takyiwaa Mensah, MBA, CLT

VU Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital fund focusing on Consumer, Enterprise, FinTech, Frontier, Healthcare, and PropTech

Founded in 2006, the Columbia Venture Community is a private, global network of more than 7,500 Columbia University alumni, students, and staff who are interested in all aspects of entrepreneurship, tech, and innovation. Our mission is to foster entrepreneurship within the Columbia innovation ecosystem by facilitating communication, providing access to resources, and creating a vibrant and supportive community. To this end, we promote in-person and virtual events in cities around the globe, including happy hours, startup pitch events, incubation seminars, speaker panels, webinars, dinners, and more. Individuals must possess a Columbia email address (UNI) to join our official member platform: https://www.meetup.com/ColumbiaVC/ CVC is classified as a Shared Interest Group​ (SIG) and endorsed by Columbia University. To apply for membership: https://www.meetup.com/ColumbiaVC/ Website: http://columbia.vc Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/columbiavc

Purelite Ventures is vertically specific Healthcare venture capital firm operating out of New York.

Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)

VU Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital fund focusing on Consumer, Enterprise, FinTech, Frontier, Healthcare, and PropTech