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    "name": "Natalia Oberti Noguera",
    "bio": "Dubbed \"The Coach\" by Marie Claire, Natalia (aka Ms. Oberti Noguera) is Founder & CEO of Pipeline Angels. Pipeline Angels is changing the face of angel investing and creating capital for trans women, cis women, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, agender, and two-spirit founders. Natalia is also Creator & Host of Pitch Makeover, a podcast on pitching and investing that spotlights startups launched by women, nonbinary people, and men of color. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature & Economics from Yale, as well as an MA in Organizational Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. Natalia serves on the boards of Walker's Legacy, Women 2.0, and iRelaunch. Inc. Magazine selected Natalia as one of \"The Most Impressive Women Entrepreneurs of 2016,\" Latina.com included her in their list of \"25 Latinas Who Shine in Tech,\" and Women's eNews recognized her as one of 21 Leaders for the 21st Century for 2012. StartOut, a network of LGBTQ entrepreneurs, honored Natalia (a cis queer Latina) with the 2017 Nixon Peabody Trailblazer Award, \"recognizing an entrepreneur whose pioneering approach or vision has set a trend for an entire industry.\"",
    "role": "Founder & CEO",
    "company": "Pipeline Angels",
    "company_link": "www.pipelineangels.com",
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    "company2": "Pitch Makeover",
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  {
    "name": "Deborah Jackson",
    "bio": "Deborah Buresh Jackson's professional life spans over 4 decades as an entrepreneur, founder and CEO, investor and investment banker. She joined Goldman Sachs after Columbia Business School in the early 1980s when it was a small partnership and there were just a handful of executive women. As an Investment Banker she helped clients raise capital in the public and private markets. In the early 1990s, she jumped at the opportunity to work with new internet and health companies and became an early promoter of technology to solve critical problems. Deborah switched her focus to investing in early-stage companies and mentoring women founders in tech in 2000 while also serving on numerous non-profit boards. And by early 2010, she determined that the best way for her to achieve her highest goals was to become an entrepreneur herself and she founded her company Plum Alley to advance entrepreneurs and new technologies. At this time, Deborah also co-founded the first accelerator program for women building mobile technologies and hosted the first hackathon of women coders and computer scientists which Fast Company magazine heralded as a critical step for innovation. ",
    "role": "Founder",
    "company": "Plum Alley",
    "company_link": "www.plumalley.com",
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  },
  {
    "name": "Sarah Kunst",
    "bio": "Kunst is the managing director of Cleo Capital & a contributing editor at Marie Claire Magazine. She has served as a senior advisor at Bumble where she focused on their corporate VC arm Bumble Fund and on the board of the Michigan State University Foundation endowment.  Kunst has been named a Future Innovator by Vanity Fair, Forbes 30 Under 30 and a Top 25 Innovator in Tech by Cool Hunting. She has been recognized for her work in Business Insider as a 30 under 30 Women in Tech and Top African-American in Tech & Pitchbook Top Black VC To Watch and honored as a top woman in VC by the Wall St. Journal and named a top DealmakeHer by the National Retail Federation. She was also named a coach for the Cartier Women’s Initiative.",
    "role": "Managing Director",
    "company": "Cleo Capital",
    "company_link": "www.cleocap.com",
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  {
    "name": "Debby Farrington '72",
    "bio": "Debby Farrington, is co-founder and Managing Partner of StarVest Partners a VC firm based in New York City that invests in technology-enabled business services companies with a focus on software-as-a-service, data & analytics and internet marketing. StarVest is one of the largest women majority owned VC firms in the US. She is a director of numerous private and public companies. Debby has been named to several times to the Midas 100 –Forbes’ list of top venture capitalists in the United States and was the top woman on that list in 2008 and 2011. She was honored in 2018 with the Foreign Policy Association Medal for Achievement in Financial Services at their Centennial Dinner.  In addition, she was recently named to the Top 100 Harvard Business School Alumni in Finance & Investing, at #16.",
    "role": "Co-Founder and Managing Partner",
    "company": "StarVest Partners",
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