Threshold Ventures

Our contribution to Women's History Month is recognizing the women in our portfolio who are making history. Each woman's background and experience is unique, but all possess strong leadership, drive, and commitment. The stories featured in this newsletter are an excellent way to get to know the founder behind each company and gain an insight into their lives, and learn about their individual paths to becoming an entrepreneur.

Earlier this week, Brightline announced a $105 million Series C investment with a valuation of $705 million. Our interview with Naomi Allen, co-founder and CEO of Brightline, is the latest addition to our Founder Story series. We know you'll enjoy reading about Naomi and the other founders.

Naomi Allen
Brightline

"I had dedicated my career to innovating in healthcare so when this opportunity came along, I absolutely knew it was the thing I must do next."

Yifan Zhang
Loftium

"I never even thought that I would go into business one day, let alone that I would do a startup."

Kyna Fong
Elation Health

"We weren’t setting out to be entrepreneurs from the get-go. We believed in solving this problem."

Mathilde Collin
Front

"We created a product and a working environment - that makes me extremely proud and happy."

Alice Zhang
Verge

"There were times where it would've been easy to give up, but I just kept my head down and got through it."

Edith Harbaugh
LaunchDarkly

"I want to know what people actually want and build that, rather than build stuff that nobody wants."

Devaki Raj
CrowdAI

"We wanted to build a company that could grow to shape the way people work."

Carolyn Witte and Felicity Yost
Tia

"The best partners can bring very different perspectives and processes to challenges vs. reinforcing the same ones."

For me, the biggest lesson was entirely about dialing up my empathy. To lead from a place of understanding regarding the challenges our team members were facing outside of work and creating the culture and the flexibility to enable them to do their best work.

- Isabelle Kenyon, founder and CEO, Calibrate

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