Bianca Caban

Vice President, Investor Coverage & Business Development

2024 - Current

Member

2021

Diverse Angels is a volunteer-based group that invests in venture-backed technology startups together as a community primarily made up of groups historically underrepresented in venture capital, angel investing, and entrepreneurship: Black, Latinx, and Women.

Principal

2022 - 2024

Conducted diligence on 450+ AI companies across infrastructure, application, and foundation layer. Notable investments contributed to include Perplexity.ai, Curated For You (Sourced and led, Board observer), Moonhub, Ideogram, Profluent Bio, Honeyhive. *** AIX Ventures (www.aixventures.com) is an AI-focused venture capital firm co-founded by the former Chief Scientist of Salesforce, Richard Socher (founder You.com, first to apply neural networks to NLP and world's #3 most cited NLP researcher). AIX Ventures includes among its Partners, several of the world’s top AI practitioners: Christopher Manning (Stanford NLP, and world's #1 most cited NLP researcher) Pieter Abbeel (Founder of Covariant, Professor at Berkeley, co-inventor of diffusion models, which are what Stable Diffusion is built on) Anthony Goldbloom (Founder of Sumble; founder of Kaggle, world's largest AI community acquired by Google in 2017)

Board Observer

2022 - 2024

Curated For You (CFY) is revolutionizing the e-commerce fashion industry, which is on track to reach $672 billion this year. The way products are currently categorized and tagged (e.g. “blue floral dress”) increasingly does not match the way customers shop (e.g. “East Coast wedding guest dress,” “spring brunch outfit,” or “bridal shower dress”); and CFY is helping clients make shopping better by centering their products around consumer lifestyles. CFY is led by Katy Aucoin who is a serial founder and former security consultant for retail organizations. She has spent years conducting deep market and consumer behavior research that serve as the foundation for CFY's proprietary fashion lifestyle lexicon.

Principal

2020 - 2022

Conducted due diligence and contributed to investments in Parspec.ai, ProjectMark (sourced and led), Firmus.ai, Claira.ai (sourced and led), Parkade, Fulfilld (sourced). Investment areas included manufacturing, construction, logistics / transportation, proptech / real estate tech.

Head Of Partnerships & CEO of SheWorx (a Republic company)

2019 - 2020

Head Of Partnerships

2019 - 2020

Director Of Partnerships

2018 - 2018

Republic is a sister company of @AngelList that connects tech startups and blockchain projects with retail investors from around the world. We were built to democratize investing and level out the fundraising landscape for founders and investors alike.

CEO (a Republic company)

2019 - 2020

SheWorx is a collective of ambitious female entrepreneurs and change-makers redefining the next wave of leadership. A global community of 20k+ female founders and events platform, SheWorx was acquired by Republic in June 2019.

MBA Candidate

2017 - 2018

Global Shaper

2014 - 2018

A global network of exceptional young individuals between the ages of 20 to 29 committed to making a difference in their local communities

Founding Board Member

2015 - 2017

AccessLatina 501c3 seeks to harness and accelerate the Latina entrepreneurship impact in the mainland U.S. and Puerto Rico to date by providing this community with much-needed access to capital, education, and networks. http://www.accesslatina.org/