Julianne Zimmerman: At the conference, I was approached by several women. The conversation we had is a conversation I have with far too many founders from MIT and many other alma maters. I have formed a really spectacular team around me. I have customer demand. I have contracts that are waiting to be filled. I
Julianne Zimmerman: The company did eventually have mainstream well-known investors. It took us a long time to get there. Also, that company was one of innumerable companies that were killed off in the extinction event that occurred when the markets imploded in 2007. I had an amazing experience of being at the forefront and accomplishing
Julianne Zimmerman: I never aspired to be in the venture capital world. I started off as an aerospace engineer. I went to MIT when I was 16 because I had wanted to be an astronaut since I was 12. I thought that that’s how you became an astronaut. It’s not the worst idea, but it’s
Sramana Mitra: Given your target audience, where do you source deals from? What is the strategy that gets you face to face with such entrepreneurs? Julianne Zimmerman: This pertains to one of the fundamental myths at the heart of the current incarnation of the venture sector. We have this deeply-rooted pernicious myth that there’s a
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Julianne Zimmerman was recorded in July 2020. Julianne Zimmerman is Managing Director at Reinventure Capital, a firm focused on minority founders.
Julianne Zimmerman is Managing Director at Reinventure Capital, a firm focused on minority founders.