Sonja Hoel Perkins is a venture capitalist, founder and managing director of the Perkins Fund and a co-founder of Broadway Angels.[1][2][3] Before starting her own fund, Perkins worked as a venture capitalist at Menlo Ventures.[1][4] In 2015, Worth magazine ranked her among the 100 Most Powerful People in Finance in the World.[5][6]
Education
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Sonja Hoel grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia and graduated from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. After working for TA Associates in Boston as an analyst, she graduated from the Harvard Business School.[1][4]
Career in venture capital
editPerkins began working as a venture capitalist at Menlo Ventures on Sand Hill Road in Menlo, California[1][4] in 1994.[7] At age 29, she was the youngest-ever general partner to join Menlo Ventures.[8] She worked for 22 years at Menlo Ventures before starting her own firm, The Perkins Fund.[9] Her investments have included Acme Packet, F5 Networks and McAfee Associates.[10] She has served on the board of directors of over 50 companies.[11] Forty percent of the angel investments made by Sonja Hoel Perkins have been in companies started by women.[12]
In 2010, Perkins and Jennifer Fonstad helped to found Broadway Angels, an invitation-only angel investing network to bring together senior women from the fields of technology and venture investing.[13][7] Rather than investing as a group, they use their collective networking resources to bring in entrepreneurs - both male and female - who may be of interest to individual members.[1][2][3]
Perkins lives in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California.[14]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e Guthrie, Julian (1 May 2019). "The Woman Who Saved John McAfee from an Epically Bad Deal". Wired. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
- ^ a b Schiller, Lauren (28 January 2016). "A Female Venture Capitalist Shares Her Secrets For Getting Funded". Fortune. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
- ^ a b Yesil, Magdalena (22 July 2016). "Coming out as a woman in venture capital: opinion". USA Today. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
- ^ a b c Guthrie, Julian (April 30, 2019). ALPHA GIRLS: The Women Upstarts Who Took On Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime. Currency; Penguin Random House LLC.
- ^ Yesil, Magdalena (October 31, 2017). Power up : how smart women win in the new economy (First ed.). Seal Press. p. 180. ISBN 9781580056915. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
- ^ "2015 Power 100: The Most Powerful People in Global Finance". Worth Magazine. October 1, 2015.
- ^ a b "Sonja L. Hoel Perkins". Bloomberg. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
- ^ "Working Their Way Around Male VC Dominance". Belle Impact Fund. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
- ^ "Broadway Angels and Chronicled Aligned for Growth Phase of Blockchain and Supply Chain Ecosystems with Pre-Series A Investment". Chronicled. May 16, 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
- ^ Schubarth, Cromwell (March 4, 2016). "VCs to share their views on state of startupland at March 16 Pitch event". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
- ^ Swallow, Erica (March 16, 2015). "The most exclusive boys' club: America's largest startups". Fortune. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
- ^ Miller, Claire Cain (April 1, 2015). "Female-Run Venture Capital Funds Alter the Status Quo". The New York Times. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
- ^ Newlands, Murray (September 2, 2016). "Bridging The Funding Gap: An Interview With The Women Behind Aspect Ventures". Forbes. Retrieved October 8, 2019.
- ^ Keates, Nancy (7 October 2011). "Seeing Monticello in San Francisco". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 17 May 2019.