Pearl Shu

We invest in founders who are reshaping outdated industries. We believe in a world where top tier fintech products help the 99% grow their wealth and build businesses. Where everyday people have transparent, efficient, and attentive healthcare experiences. Where managers and front-line employees in legacy industries have tools that save time, increase transparency, and take minutes to learn (vertical SaaS).

Halogen Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund focused on female founded consumer technologies founded by Jesse Draper. We believe in hands on attention and plug each of our portfolio companies into a strategic network of advisors, investors and accelerators in the greater venture community. With a focus on consumer, we also add value in the entertainment, marketing and PR space to further the footprint of our brands.

H/L Ventures and its family of funds, H/L Studio and CityRock Ventures, are a holistic company-building ecosystem that supports mission-driven founders on their path to creating and growing valuable companies. Since its founding in 2009, H/L Ventures has forged a new way to build companies at the nexus of growth, impact, and diversity. Practicing our core philosophy of daily active engagement, we support our portfolio company founding teams throughout their entrepreneurial journey.

We lead seed rounds in bold founders who use code to create transformational companies.

We invest in founders who are reshaping outdated industries. We believe in a world where top tier fintech products help the 99% grow their wealth and build businesses. Where everyday people have transparent, efficient, and attentive healthcare experiences. Where managers and front-line employees in legacy industries have tools that save time, increase transparency, and take minutes to learn (vertical SaaS).

Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 70m tracks for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features including offline mode, improved sound quality, and an ad-free music listening experience. Today, Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service with 365m users, including 165m subscribers across 178 markets. We are the largest driver of revenue to the music business today.