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Investor profile

Loretta McCarthy

Co-CEO and Managing Partner, Golden Seeds

About

Loretta McCarthy defines her role at Golden Seeds as building a movement rather than just running an investment firm, mobilizing hundreds of angels around the shared mission of funding women-led companies after discovering that less than 3% of startup funding was going to women. She combines Fortune 500 C-suite marketing experience from OppenheimerFunds and American Express with her work scaling Golden Seeds' 300+ member angel network and uses the firm's Knowledge Institute to professionalize angel investing itself, positioning herself as an educator of new angels and builder of infrastructure for gender-diverse capital. Loretta McCarthy defines her role at Golden Seeds as building a movement rather than just running an investment firm, mobilizing hundreds of angels around the shared mission of funding women-led companies after discovering that less than 3% of startup funding was going to women. She combines Fortune 500 C-suite marketing experience from OppenheimerFunds and American Express with her work scaling Golden Seeds' 300+ member angel network and uses the firm's Knowledge Institute to professionalize angel investing itself, positioning herself as an educator of new angels and builder of infrastructure for gender-diverse capital.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Sectors
Health
Enterprise
Consumer
Deeptech
Hardware
Diversity focus
Under-represented founders

Investment details

Avg check size$250K - $2M
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
USA