Beth Turner

Managing Partner - Seed

2017 - Current

Early-stage investors helping companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Anduril, Github, Airbnb, Stripe, Hugging Face, Slack, Dropbox, Coinbase, and Square with fundraising/financing, corporate development/M&A, and business development.

Board Of Directors, USA for UNHCR (The UN Refugee Agency)

2021

Co-founder and Chair of the Humanitarian Coalition

2018

The Humanitarian Coalition is comprised of next generation philanthropists and business leaders who are working to further USA for UNHCR’s mission by helping raise funds and awareness.

Managing Director

2013 - 2018

Focused on seed stage funding and investment management for four funds (invested in companies such as Clover Health, Blue Apron (NYSE: APRN), RigUp, Flatiron Health (acq. by Roche), Lucky Sort (acq. by Twitter), and Petal.

Operations and Business Development

2012 - 2018

The Pangea Network is an international non-profit organization with a mission of empowering women and youth around the world. Operational areas include Kenya, Middle East, and the USA. Hired to help improve operations in micro-lending and empowerment programs, gain an increase in funding, and expand programs working with women and youth in the USA and Kenya. Major accomplishments have been the creation of the Young Women’s Leadership Challenge program for high school girls interested in global issues, entrepreneurship and STEM programs. Over 1000 young women, primarily from underserved communities, have participated in YWLC. Similarly, led planning for 3 large-scale fundraising galas.

Early employee

2011 - 2012

An early employee working between data science and campaign management. Adaptly’s single sign-on experience provides on-demand access to cross-platform campaign data within a single proprietary technology. Users can easily toggle between various ad accounts and platforms for quick insights into their entire paid media budget in real-time.

Business Development

2011 - 2012

Led an internal work review and strategic planning initiative with CFO/CEO on how to increase and optimize interactions between international financing and funding institutions for smart-drip irrigation systems.

MIT's Theoretical Physics Laboratory

2009 - 2011

Studied rare earth elements and their usage in clean energy technologies (i.e. wind, solar, nuclear). Researched the possible limitations the global supply and trade of such rare earth elements could pose on the success of emerging sustainable energy technologies.

Geophysical Intern

2005 - 2006

Analyzed geologic and well log data, used geophysical computer modeling, helped with investor presentations.

Exhibit Designer, Experiment Leader

2004 - 2005

Researched the potential for the museum's first asteroid exhibit (selected based on expertise in asteroids and observational astronomy). Designated leader of a 3-person team that designed and prototyped the exhibit. Selected to conduct daily chemistry experiments for museum guests and children's groups.

Intern

2004 - 2005

Worked on Virtual Interactive Anatomy integrating software -data collected was used by the spacesuit design team. Leader on an 8-person design team brainstorming and modeling the new Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV).