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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Kelly Ann Winget, the Founder of Dallas-based private equity company, Alternative Wealth Partners. Kelly Ann has over a decade of experience in the alternative investment space, sourcing creative capital for startups, oil & gas companies, manufacturing ventures, real estate, and several other emerging markets. She has helped companies raise almost $1B in private capital from individual investors looking for investment opportunities outside of the stock market.
 
Kelly Ann Winget will be featured in the upcoming documentary, Show Her the Money https://showherthemoneymovie.com/



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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Pocket Sun, the Co-founder and Managing Partner at SoGal Ventures which is a top-performing early stage venture capital firm backing world-class women and diverse entrepreneurs outside of Silicon Valley. She founded SoGal at age 23 to solve the deeply rooted inequity in VC and to deliver superior, consistent financial returns by investing in underestimated founders, undercapitalized geographies, and underserved problems. Since 2015, Pocket and co-founder Elizabeth have invested in 150+ startups worldwide, managed $40M LP capital, and built a track record of picking five $1B+ unicorns from the earliest stage. 
 
Pocket Sun will be featured in the upcoming documentary, Show Her the Money https://showherthemoneymovie.com/



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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Joanne Mercaldi, also known as "Boss." She is the Co-Founder and CEO of BLOOM. She leads with a passion for inspiring and motivating my team and partners to achieve greatness.
 
Joanne has been recognized as a distinguished business leader with an exceptional track record of building and scaling start-ups that have left a lasting impact, whose journey has been defined by a relentless commitment to innovation and growth. As a three-time founder, one of her most significant accomplishments was founding and successfully exiting one of Massachusetts' largest home health agencies in less than 5 years. TLC @ Home served over 5000 elders and employed over 600 dedicated direct care staff. She has been actively involved in the startup and expansion of Lahey Health at Home and Seaside Wellness, contributing to their growth and success.
 
As an advocate for women-owned businesses, she takes immense pleasure in investing in
opportunities that create a positive and meaningful impact on people's lives.
 
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Catherine Gray, host of Invest In Her, talks with Dorothy Chou who leads Policy & Public Engagement at DeepMind, an artificial intelligence company. Dorothy has spent her career building social justice, ethics, & accountability structures at technology companies, including the first Transparency Report—an industry standard that more than 70 technology companies use to show how laws and corporate policies affect free expression and privacy online. Prior to DeepMind, Dorothy was responsible for policy development at Uber on issues related to consumer protection, safety, & self-driving cars. While there, she started a campaign with civil rights activists on criminal justice reform to help people with low-level misdemeanors on their records find jobs, which resulted in onboarding ~7,000 drivers who previously were unable to drive. She also led corporate communications at Dropbox, and worked in various roles across communications and public policy for seven years at Google. Outside of work, she is working toward a Master’s in Bioethics at the University of Oxford and is an angel investor with Atomico, a leading European venture capital firm. Previously she served on the Board of Directors of Simply Secure (now Superbloom), a nonprofit working to make open source security tools more usable and accessible, and was an Adjunct Fellow at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute. Dorothy holds a B.S. in International Politics from Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service.
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Catherine Gray, host of Invest In Her, talks with Helen Fanucci, the best-selling author of Love Your Team, A Survival Guide for Sales Managers in a Hybrid World.  She has built her reputation and career managing teams responsible for billions of dollars of quota.  As an MIT-trained engineer she developed the Love Your Team system of management over a 25-year career on the front lines at top tech companies including Apple, Sun Microsystems, IBM, and Microsoft.  Helen is currently the Founder of Love Your Team LLC which provides fractional sales leader and helps organizations create clarity, build strong cultures and accelerate business outcomes. Helen has been an advocate for women and diversity throughout her career. In the last year, she has focused on working with women entrepreneurs and early-stage business leaders.  In 2023, Helen became a Limited Partner in Emmeline, a women founded venture capital firm that is focused on funding women entrepreneurs and is an Associate Producer of a new film, Show Her the Money, which is focused on educating and changing the disparity that women only get 2% of venture capital funding. 
 
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Catherine Gray, host of Invest In Her, talks with Sarah Dusek, a venture capitalist and co-founder of Enygma Ventures, a venture capital fund. She invests in women-led businesses in Southern Africa, creates solutions to wealth disparity, and provides access to capital for women.
 
In 2017, after successfully selling her company, Under Canvas, for more than $100 million, Sarah launched Enygma Ventures. In that same year, Under Canvas received a spot on the coveted Inc. 5000 list, and Sarah was named to Ernst & Young’s EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women list. Sarah began her career in the nonprofit world in her early twenties working in Southern Africa and Southeast Asia. After almost eight years, she became disillusioned with the lack of change resulting from her efforts. She realized that the most effective vehicle for driving change and solving big world problems is business. Businesses are sustainable solutions to problems. They drive economies, create self-sufficiencies, and change our world. Business can, and should, be a force for good.
 
Today, Sarah offers online courses for early-stage entrepreneurs (hosted at www.pranary.com). Over the past year, five thousand entrepreneurs have gone through her programs to become investor-ready and learn how to build valuable companies. She is a regular contributor to Forbes.com, The Telegraph, and TRT World. She is also chairwoman of the Women’s Giving Circle for The Global Good Fund, a social entrepreneurship leadership development program, and sits on the board of ten (and rising) startup companies in Southern Africa, as well as Under Canvas. Sarah has an LLB Law degree from Exeter University, UK, and an MA from University of Manchester in Missiology. She divides her time between the US and South Africa with her husband and two children.
 
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