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At our 2024 Rogue Women event earlier this spring, Yao Huang, founder of The Hatchery, moderated a panel discussion with venture capitalists. The panel included Caroline Lewis, Managing Partner of Rogue Women's Fund; Sydney Paige Thomas,
Founder and General Partner of Symphonic Capital; and McKeever "Mac" Conwell II, Managing Partner of RareBreed Ventures.

Understand the strategies that enabled these venture capitalists to invest in the overlooked and the results they've realized: a thriving portfolio.

For over 25 years, Phil Lempert has been the most sought-after thought leader on the trends and innovation of food and supermarkets. He has been profiled, interviewed, and hosted segments on everything from The New York Times to The Wall Street Journal to The Today Show to CNN. His upcoming book is Disrupting the Food Business: Silicon Valley Culture and the Food Business. Today, we talk about the grocery store of tomorrow, why VC and Food often don’t mix, and how technologies like Gen AI, Automation, and Robotics can help us get back to the humanity of the food experience.

At our 2024 Rogue Women event earlier this spring, Danielle Cohn, Founding Partner and CEO of The Wave Ventures, hosted a panel discussion with executives from corporate companies. The panel included Limor Schafman, Director of Operations and Programs at LG NOVA, a division of LG Electronics that collaborates with startups to develop businesses; Lizzie Naylor, Global Platform Manager for Start Path, Mastercard's acclaimed startup engagement program; and our own Shira Averbuch, Vice President of Innovation and Partnerships at VentureFuel.
Find out how these executives are partnering enterprise organizations with startups to drive growth and create new markets, together.

Last week, we had an 'Ask Me Anything' session with Danielle Cohn, CEO and Founding Partner of Wave Ventures, on Building an Innovation Ecosystem for Enterprise Organizations. The discussion centers on Danielle’s leadership in a top Fortune 30 innovation function. Danielle shared insights on founding an award-winning startup platform and emphasized creating innovation spaces in large organizations and nurturing startup engagement.

A fireside chat originally recorded at our 2024 Rogue Women event earlier this spring, The theme Advocacy Access and Acceleration features a wonderful discussion with Charlotte Newman, Global Head of underrepresented founder and investor startup
business development. Charlotte is a global business development leader for Amazon Web Services, and a former entrepreneur who leads the AWS startup strategy to engage and accelerate underrepresented founders and investors. During this conversation, moderated
by rogue women fellow, Aina Fadina, they talk about how AWS is reshaping the innovation ecosystem by providing founders with the resources and networks needed to succeed.

Avra van der Zee is the COO of Elemental Excelerator, a global climate technology accelerator started in Honolulu with over 150 portfolio companies that have received over $8B in follow-on funding. We talk about using entrepreneurship for social change, catalytic capital, how to scale new technologies and the role of corporates in solving the climate challenge and the economic benefit of societal impact – including great case studies of United Airlines and Amazon.