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This blog post helps highlight a few leading female startup investors that focus on marketplaces. We recommend getting to know these top marketplace investors if you're an early stage founder. We're including more about them, some of their portfolio company investments, links to their group chat recordings for reference, and also social to follow along below:

Angela Tran‍

Angela Tran is a General Partner at Version One Ventures, which is a leading early stage venture fund. Version One has backed 100+ startups from the earliest stages like Headout, Patch, Shippo, Wattpad, and more. Angela is actively investing in the US and Canada, so has a unique perspective on both ecosystems. Angela is also the author of "The Guide To Marketplaces", which is a required read for marketplace founders. Angela has also been a two-time Everything Marketplaces group chat guest and you can see the recording from her first group chat here, along with her most recent group chat below:
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Profiles to follow & more: Twitter, LinkedIn‍

Olivia Moore‍

Olivia Moore is a Partner at a16z, which is a leading venture fund. a16z has backed notable marketplaces like Airbnb, Lyft, Flexport, Whatnot, and more. Olivia focuses on consumer & marketplaces at 16z. Olivia is also behind the "Marketplace 100", which is an annual report and ranking of the top performing marketplaces by GMV. You can see a recap post with the recording, notes, & highlight clips from Olivia's group chat in the community here.

Profiles to follow & more: Twitter, LinkedIn‍
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Loren Straub

Loren Straub is a Partner at Bowery Capital, which is a venture fund that focuses on B2B and SaaS enabled marketplaces. Bowery Capital has backed marketplaces like Zeus, StreetCred, Reibus, and more. Loren was also at Groupon prior to joining Bowery Capital, so has some really great experience on both the operating and investing side. You can see a recap post with the recording, notes, & highlight clips from Loren's group chat in the community here.‍‍

Profiles to follow & more: Twitter, LinkedIn‍
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Sydney Sykes‍‍

Sydney Sykes is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, which is a leading multi-stage venture fund. Sydney focuses on commerce and marketplace investments at Lightspeed, where they've backed notable marketplaces like Faire, BetterUp, Vinted, Grubhub, and more. Sydney also Co-founded BLCK VC, the largest network of Black Venture Capital investors that's focused on increasing representation in VC. You can see a recap post with the recording, notes, & highlight clips from Sydney's group chat in the community here.‍‍

Profiles to follow & more: Twitter, LinkedIn‍
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Michelle Kwon‍

Michelle Kwon is a Partner at AirAngels, which is an early stage venture fund that Michelle helped start alongside other Airbnb alumni and General Partners, Lenny Rachitsky and Daniel Rummenick. AirAngels has backed marketplaces like Snackpass, Shef, Pachama, Papa, and more. Prior to AirAngels, Michelle was at Airbnb where she helped launch & scale Airbnb Experiences from beta to over 160+ countries. You can see a recap post with the recording, notes, & highlight clips from Michelles's group chat in the community here.

Profiles to follow & more: Twitter, LinkedIn‍
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The investors mentioned above have been incredibly generous in contributing their time to share more about their experience, insights, and learnings with the Everything Marketplaces community. We'd like to give a huge thanks to them for doing so and also actively supporting founders in the community. There are also other awesome marketplace investors, so if you feel like we left anyone off of this list, please be sure to reach out and let us know.
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Want to see a list of 500+ active marketplace investors? We've created an investor database that has active angels, early stage investors, and funds that you can see here. You can also join the fundraising space in our community where many of the investors mentioned above are talking about fundraising with founders in the community here.