Vanessa Alexandra Pestritto brings unusually broad pattern recognition from personally reviewing over 5,000 startups as Executive Director of New York Angels, where she managed all deal flow before becoming a VC partner at Lattice Ventures. She's known for being a first meeting and translation layer for founders outside traditional tech networks, coaching them to reshape their narratives and explicitly teaching them what to say to investors rather than penalizing them for not knowing VC jargon. Vanessa Alexandra Pestritto brings unusually broad pattern recognition from personally reviewing over 5,000 startups as Executive Director of New York Angels, where she managed all deal flow before becoming a VC partner at Lattice Ventures. She's known for being a first meeting and translation layer for founders outside traditional tech networks, coaching them to reshape their narratives and explicitly teaching them what to say to investors rather than penalizing them for not knowing VC jargon.