Melody is a Partner at NextView Ventures based in its New York office. She has spent her entire career working with technology and Internet startups as an entrepreneur, operator, and investor.
Prior to joining NextView, Melody was Head of Product at Blue Apron (NYSE: APRN). Melody joined Blue Apron as the first product hire when the company was 18 months old with 20 HQ employees. She helped scale the business through hyper-growth (25x in 3.5 years) and to its IPO, building and leading a 35-person team across Product Management, Product Design, and Analytics/Data Science.
Lucky to have my second job out of college doing venture investing in NYC; years later after spending time as a founder and operator helping scale hypergrowth businesses, I realized that I miss early-stage company building and found my way back to early stage investing.
Founder-market fit and unique insight around how to approach an attractive market; ability to attract talent/build a strong team; "heat-seeking missile" quality
Leveraging my operating experience and "filling the white space" based on what the team needs most help on; hands on in the four areas that matter the most to all early-stage companies - product, marketing, hiring/team, and fundraising. Work well with founders who are open and transparent and are not shy about having a constant dialogue with investors.
Just be yourself :)
I'd love to partner with founders who find ways to leverage technology to design a future that we want to live in and be a positive force to society.
I've spent over a decade of my career in NYC tech and have seen that the ecosystem continues to mature and diversify. I'm even more excited about the next decade as the wealth of knowledge, experience and capital have the opportunity to catalyze the next generation of transformative companies.
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