Catherine Merigold, Vista Ventures: Dating with View to Marry Venture Capital

Video interview with Catharine Merigold, Founder & General Partner Vista Ventures.  Catharine has worked with communications and information technology companies for twenty years, as an investor, as a board member and advisor, and as an entrepreneur. She started her venture career in 1992 with Centennial Ventures, the largest venture firm in the Rocky Mountain region. She was the founding CEO of a venture-backed company, a vice president at a Fortune 100 telecommunications company, and CEO of UTC, the company that manages all the technology developed at the four University of Colorado campuses. Catharine received her BS in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from Stanford University. You can find Catharine on Twitter @CatharineinCO

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Natalia Oberti, Pipeline Fund: Building Community for Female Entrepreneurs PtII

Video Interview with Natalia Oberti Noguera, CEO Pipeline Fund Pipeline Fund is a social venture fund that trains women philanthropists into angel investors through education, mentoring, and practice. She is also the creator of #womaninnovator a media campaign to increase the visibility of women changemakers and mainstream their stories. As Chapter Leader of New York Women Social Entrepreneurs (NYWSE), Natalia launched the network in January 2008 and has grown the community from six women to over 1,200. Her background includes work experience in the nonprofit and social entrepreneurship sectors.  Natalia holds a BA from Yale in Comparative Literature & Economics, and an MSc in International Health Care Management from Bocconi University. Natalia serves on the founding board of Fast Forward Fund, a youth-to-youth social venture fund, and you can find her on Twitter @nakisnakis

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Emily Olson:Venture Sourcing Made Easy Part II

Video Interview with Emily Olson, one of the co-founders of Foodzie , a passionate online community that celebrates good tasting, real food. Foodzie makes it simple for all food-lovers to have a connection to their food. She’s also an alum of the 2008 class of TechStars, an early stage tech incubator program based out of Boulder, CO. Previously to Foodzie, Emily worked for The Fresh Market, the third largest specialty food chain. She saw the flaws in the brick and mortar model for small food companies and believed that a marketplace online gave them the tools they needed to connect directly with customers and share the stories that make them unique. You can find Emily @ her blog This is Me, Em & Twitter @emilyolson

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