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American businesswoman and investor
Joanne Wilson (born 1961) is an American businesswoman and angel investor . She is known for backing female-founded companies.[3]
Biography
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Early life and education
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Joanne Wilson was born in 1961.[4] Wilson studied at Simmons College in Boston , where she graduated in 1983.[5] She met her future husband Fred Wilson while in college and they moved to New York City.[6]
Career
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Wilson began her career at Macy's , working in the retail apparel department for 4 years.[7] After Macy's she oversaw a company in the garment industry, then worked in sales for the startup magazine and events company called Silicon Alley Reporter.[7] [8] She also chaired the nonprofit MOUSE (Making Opportunities in Upgrading Schools in Education), which focused on technology in inner-city schools.[9] [10] [11]
Wilson began investing in 2007.[12] [13] She also runs the entrepreneurship blog Gotham Gal.[14] Through her investment fund, Gotham Gal Ventures, Wilson and her husband fund startups.[15] [16]
In 2010, together with Nancy Hechinger from New York University she co-founded and co-chaired an annual Women Entrepreneurs Festival.[17] [19]
From 2010 to 2015, she chaired the board of Hot Bread Kitchen , a nonprofit that promotes and trains female and minority bakers.[16] [21] She also was the first co-Chair of Path Forward, a non-profit, established in 2018 with a mission to get people back to work after they’ve taken time off for caregiving.[22]
Since 2009, Wilson has been involved in real estate development in New York City.[23] [24]
Investments
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Wilson made her first investment into Lockhart Steele 's startup Curbed .[12] [13] Some of her early investments included Food52 , Rick's Picks , DailyWorth , Hot Bread Kitchen and Scoot .[25] [26] [27] In 2014, she invested in Blue Bottle Coffee , a coffee roaster and retailer, and in Spoon University, a food media company, in 2015.[28] [29] Later in 2015, she invested in Nestio, the NY-based leasing and marketing platform for residential landlords.[30]
Wilson became known for investing in women-led startups.[3] In 2012, 13 of her 17 investments were in tech and out of those 13, 10 were women-founded companies.[13] As of 2016, around 70 percent of her investments were in companies led by women.[12] By 2017, she has backed more than 90 female-founded companies, including 3 of the 11 black women-led startups to have raised over $1 million.[32] [33]
In 2017, Wilson made two angel investments in the cannabis industry : Octavia Wellness and Beboe.[14] [34]
Personal life
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Wilson is married to venture capitalist Fred Wilson , a cofounder of Union Square Ventures . The couple live in New York City. They have three children, two daughters and a son.[4] In 2016, Crain's New York Business included Fred and Joanne Wilson into its "Power Couples" list.[38]
Bibliography
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Saujani, Reshma (2013). Women Who Don't Wait in Line . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt . ISBN 978-0-544-02778-7 – via Google Books .
Feld, Brad; Batchelo, Amy (2013). Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur . John Wiley & Sons . ISBN 978-1-118-49386-1 – via Google Books .
Krotz, Joanna (2015). Being Equal Doesn't Mean Being The Same . Motivational Press. ISBN 978-1628652505 .
Pimsleur, Julia (2015). Million Dollar Women: The Essential Guide for Female Entrepreneurs Who Want to Go Big . Simon & Schuster . ISBN 978-1-4767-9029-9 – via Google Books .
Waldman Rodriguez, Jessamyn; Turshen, Julia (2015). The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook: Artisanal Baking from Around the World . Clarkson Potter/Publishers . ISBN 978-0-8041-8618-6 – via Google Books .
Anid, Nada; Cantileno, Laurie; Morrow, Monique J.; Zafar, Rahilla (2016). The Internet of Women: Accelerating Culture Change . River Publishers. ISBN 978-87-93379-68-8 – via Google Books .
Cabot, Heather; Walravens, Samantha (2017). Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech . St. Martin's Publishing Group . ISBN 978-1-250-11226-2 – via Google Books .
References
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^ a b O'Brien, Sara Ashley (May 5, 2015). "How this investor is bridging the 'bravado gap' " . CNN Business . Archived from the original on April 10, 2015. Retrieved December 1, 2019 .
^ a b "Meet 'Gotham Gal' Joanne Wilson, an outspoken angel investor and a Woman of Influence" . New York Business Journal . January 4, 2016. Archived from the original on January 6, 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2020 .
^ "Alumnae/i achievements" . Simmons (Fall 2012). Simmons University : 14. 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2019 – via yumpu.com.
^ Shontell, Alyson (April 13, 2014). "FRED WILSON Q&A: The Legendary Investor Talks Retirement, Tumblr's Exit, And Getting Over A Tough Year" . Business Insider . Archived from the original on November 24, 2018. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
^ a b Suster, Mark (April 19, 2011). "8 Startup Lessons You Could Learn From Gotham Gal" . Fast Company . Archived from the original on November 10, 2013. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
^ Rewick, Jennifer L. (February 29, 2000). "Silicon Alley Reporter Seeks Some Silicon Alley Investors" . The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
^ "Joanne Wilson: The Woman Empowering Angel Investor" . Columbia University . 2016. Archived from the original on June 20, 2016. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
^ "Activate New York 2013: Judging panel" . The Guardian . September 18, 2013. Archived from the original on September 5, 2014. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
^ Allbritton, Chris (April 23, 2000). "A MOUSE THAT ROARED The crusade to get city students online" . New York Daily News . Archived from the original on November 10, 2019. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
^ a b c Johnson, Mary (February 18, 2016). "Gotham Gal Joanne Wilson is an angel investor — and 'chick magnet' " . Albany Business Review . Archived from the original on March 2, 2017. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
^ a b c Shontell, Alyson (February 29, 2012). "Meet Joanne Wilson, an investor in 17 startups who's part of a tech power couple" . Business Insider . Archived from the original on March 27, 2013. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
^ a b Williams, Alex (March 17, 2017). "The Hermès of Marijuana" . The New York Times . Archived from the original on November 10, 2019. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
^ Chernova, Yuliya (February 28, 2014). "Sweeten.com Tries to Make Home Renovation Process Less Bitter" . The Wall Street Journal . Archived from the original on November 12, 2019. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
^ a b Kowitt, Beth (September 3, 2014). "The Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink" . Fortune . Archived from the original on August 25, 2019. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
^ Allison, Keith (April 11, 2014). "Looking Forward at the Women Entrepreneurs Festival" . New York University . Archived from the original on April 23, 2019. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
^ Marinova, Polina (January 28, 2016). "What Women Want" . Fortune . Archived from the original on September 1, 2019. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
^ Waldman Rodriguez, Jessamyn (December 7, 2015). "Farewell to Outgoing Board Chair Joanne Wilson" . hotbreadkitchen.org (Press release). Archived from the original on November 17, 2019. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
^ "Notable Women in Tech" . Crain's New York Business . April 8, 2019. Archived from the original on May 8, 2019. Retrieved November 25, 2019 .
^ Hughes, C.J. (September 21, 2012). "On the Waterfront, Minus the Stevedores" . The New York Times . Archived from the original on April 1, 2015. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
^ Hughes, C.J. (January 17, 2020). "Five Stories Tall and Made of Wood" . The New York Times . Archived from the original on January 22, 2020. Retrieved April 30, 2020 .
^ Boyd Myers, Courtney (December 11, 2011). "Breakfast of Champions: Joanne Wilson on writing, investing and mentoring" . The Next Web . Archived from the original on October 8, 2016. Retrieved December 1, 2019 .
^ Primack, Dan (January 6, 2012). "Venture capital deals" . Fortune . Archived from the original on December 1, 2019. Retrieved December 1, 2019 .
^ Perez, Sarah (September 12, 2012). "Scoot, The "Zipcar For Scooters," Grabs $550K In Seed Funding" . TechCrunch . Archived from the original on October 8, 2012. Retrieved December 1, 2019 .
^ Tsotsis, Alexia (January 30, 2014). "Tech Investors Buy Themselves Some Blue Bottle Coffee" . TechCrunch . Archived from the original on August 24, 2014. Retrieved December 1, 2019 .
^ Shieber, Jonathan (July 14, 2015). "Spoon University Raises $2M To Serve A Food Network To Millennials" . TechCrunch . Archived from the original on July 15, 2015. Retrieved December 1, 2019 .
^ Tepper, Fitz (December 1, 2015). "Residential Real Estate Platform Nestio Lands An $8M Series A Round" . TechCrunch . Archived from the original on January 1, 2016. Retrieved December 1, 2019 .
^ Kunst, Sarah (February 22, 2016). "Just 4% of Female-led Startups Are Run by Black Women—I'm One of Them" . Fortune . Archived from the original on March 5, 2017. Retrieved December 1, 2019 .
^ O’Connor, Clare (February 27, 2017). "Inside one woman investor's plan to get black female founders funding" . Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved December 1, 2019 .
^ Berke, Jeremy; Robinson, Melia (May 17, 2018). "The rising stars of marijuana's investment scene that everyone from Wall Street to Silicon Valley should know" . Business Insider . Archived from the original on August 31, 2019. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
^ "Fred Wilson & Joanne Wilson" . Crain's New York Business . 2016. Archived from the original on November 9, 2019. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
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R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joanne_Wilson&oldid=1223102950 "
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