Jesse Draper, founding partner of Halogen Ventures as well as creator and host of Emmy-nominated television series, The Valley Girl Show. Draper is a 4th generation venture capitalist focused on early-stage investing in female-founded consumer technology.
Among her 50 portfolio companies are the Skimm, Carbon38, HopSkipDrive, The Flex Company, Eloquii (recently sold to Walmart), ThisisL. (recently sold to P&G), and Sugarfina. She stars on SET's television series 'Meet the Draper's' currently in it's second season.
Draper was listed by Marie Claire magazine as one of the ‘50 Most Connected Women in America’. Draper has been a contributor to Marie Claire, Mashable, Forbes, and is a regular investor and tech personality on shows including TLC’s Girl Starter, The Katie Couric Show, Fox’s Good Day LA, CNBC’s Who Wants to Be the Next Millionaire Inventor? & Freeform’s Startup U.
She proudly sits on the board of directors of enterprise technology company Carbon38, Trust and Will, Preemadonna (creator of the Nailbot), Style Row, and the non-profit board Bizworld. Draper supports the Parkinson’s Institute and is very involved with growing UCLA’s female entrepreneurship community.
During This Fireside Chat What You'll Learn:
1. Benchmarks for investing at different stages: how do you define 'good traction?'
2. How to create valuations for your business
3. Characteristics of a very 'investable' business: create a pitch that converts
4. Find out when it's the right time to raise
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