Moxxie invests in founders who make life and work better.

Our mission

Support exceptional founders who build products that matter.

TEAM

We're an agile and mighty network of investors and operators.

Katie Jacobs Stanton
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Katie is the Founder and General Partner of Moxxie Ventures

Prior to Moxxie, Katie served in numerous executive operating roles at Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and Color. She has led teams in marketing, comms, recruiting, product and media. In addition to working in Silicon Valley, Katie served in the (Obama) White House and State Department and began her career as a banker at JP Morgan Chase. Katie sits on the Board of Vivendi, a French multinational media company headquartered in Paris, Yahoo and previously served on the Board of Time Inc.  Katie started her venture career as a Founding Partner of #Angels and has invested in 50 early-stage companies including Airtable, Cameo, Carta, Coinbase, Literati, Modern Fertility, Shape Security and Threads.

Alex Roetter
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Alex is the General Partner at Moxxie Ventures.

Alex is an engineer, leader, investor and aviator, and loves bringing new products and services to life. Alex was formerly the President of Kitty Hawk (an eVTOL company) and was previously the SVP of Engineering at Twitter. Alex has over a decade of experience investing in and advising early to late stage private companies, including Coinbase, Nuro, Sauce Labs, Digits, Caption Health, and Certn. He is the co-chair of the Visible Hands.vc Fellowship Advisory Committee, and an observer on their Board of Directors. Alex started his career as a software engineer at Google and various other early startups.

Marie Drez
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Marie Drez brings over 20 years experience in finance and administration working with venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. She recently ran the finance and administrative functions for Noventi Ventures and currently acts as the CFO for several firms in the Bay Area. She has a passion for working with emerging managers and their portfolio companies. She received her B.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Prateek Joshi
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Prateek Joshi is a founder, engineer, investor, author, and a podcast host. He has published 13 books on Machine Learning. His podcast has listeners in 100+ countries and features prominent AI founders, VCs, and practitioners. He writes a weekly newsletter on the intersection of AI and startups. Prior to Moxxie, he was the founder and CEO of Plutoshift. He started his career at Nvidia working on building Machine Learning products. He has been featured on Forbes, NBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, TechCrunch, and Silicon Valley Business Journal.

Ashwin Lalendran
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Ashwin brings over 15 years of experience designing and deploying AI/ML and computer vision systems across land, air, sea and space. In each environment, he has gone from napkin sketch to scaled deployment— many generating $100+ million in value. As a former founder and executive at Seed to Series B startups, Ashwin specializes in scaling startups in regulated industries. Previously, he led engineering teams at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) designing drones to protect warfighters in Afghanistan and Iraq and the team responsible for the first aerial and indoor map for Apple Maps. Ashwin is a guest lecturer at the University of Michigan in Climate and Space Sciences Engineering.

Haley Lyons
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Haley is Head of Operations at Moxxie focusing on operational enhancements, investor relations and community building. Haley has experience at other early stage funds including Magnify Ventures, Serena Ventures, and VamosVentures. She's an active member of the All Raise Steering Committee, a Techstars mentor, and holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson and a B.S. from Vanderbilt University. Haley is a California native with a passion for fostering diversity and innovation in the startup ecosystem.

Chris Wu
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Chris is an investor at Moxxie Ventures.

Chris is an operator, founder, investor and advisor. Prior to joining Moxxie, Chris held a variety of senior operating and growth roles at Lyft, DoorDash, Samsara, and most recently Hims & Hers where he was the GM of Clinicians, overseeing the team responsible for driving supply side performance. Chris has seen all stages of company building and his experience includes scaling teams, operations and the growth of several companies as they scaled to IPO. Chris is a former YC founder and is active in the startup ecosystem, where founders turn to him for his deep go-to-market expertise. He has been an angel investor since 2014 and lives in New York City.

INVESTORS
Moxxie Ventures is proud to be backed by an all-star roster of Institutions, Entrepreneurs, Operators and Investors including:

Accolade
Bain Capital Ventures
Bloomberg Beta
Carta Ventures
Cendana
Equity Alliance Fund
First Close Partners
Foundry Group
Gingerbread Capital
Global Endowment Management
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Industry Ventures
Plexo Capital
Rock Creek Group
Sapphire Partners
TIFF

Sumit Agarwal
Gina Bianchini
Francoise & Bill Brougher
David Fischer
Vijaya Gadde
Aileen Lee
Jana Messerschmidt
Jackie Reses
Chris & Crystal Sacca
Tina Sharkey
Gregg Spiridellis
April Underwood
Ev Williams
Anne Wojcicki
Susan Wojcicki
Jerry Yang

How we work

Moxxie brings operating experience, a diversified network and heart to every investment.

Capital

Capital is critical but it's a commodity. There are a lot of places to get money. It’s what we deliver once the capital is deployed that makes us unique.

Operating Experience

We’ve led teams in product, engineering, marketing, PR, business development and people. We want to leverage those experiences and perspectives to help founders at the earliest stage.

Relationships

We are part of a unique network of founders, operators, investors and policy makers that work in partnership to make a positive impact in business and in our community.

Determination

We’ve poured our hearts into creating products that matter, building teams, finding product-market fit, fighting for growth, and expanding internationally. We want to bring that same unflinching determination to your success.

Sectors

We're open-minded and bet on tenacious, unbreakable founders across sectors including...

Consumer

Enterprise

FinTech

HealthTech

Climate

PORTFOLIO

We're just getting started, but here's who we love so far...

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We're always looking for exceptional founders with big ideas.

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