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Tessa Flippin

Founder and Managing Partner, Capitalize VC

About

Tessa Flippin is a former Division I high-jump athlete at Stanford who draws on that experience to talk about discipline, resilience, and clearing the bar in entrepreneurship, bringing a performance and mindset-oriented lens to evaluating founders. As one of a relatively small number of Black women who have founded and lead their own institutional venture fund, she positions herself around shifting paradigms in early-stage venture and closing the racial wealth gap by backing Black and Latinx founders at the pre-seed stage. Tessa Flippin is a former Division I high-jump athlete at Stanford who draws on that experience to talk about discipline, resilience, and clearing the bar in entrepreneurship, bringing a performance and mindset-oriented lens to evaluating founders. As one of a relatively small number of Black women who have founded and lead their own institutional venture fund, she positions herself around shifting paradigms in early-stage venture and closing the racial wealth gap by backing Black and Latinx founders at the pre-seed stage.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Sectors
AI
Ecommerce
CPG / D2C
FinTech
Diversity focus
Under-represented founders

Investment details

Avg check size$100K - $200K
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
USA