Cat Hernandez
General Partner at The Venture Collective
Cat Hernandez
General Partner at The Venture Collective
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2020 - Current
TVC is a transformational, early-stage venture firm backed by world class entrepreneurs and business leaders. Led by a seasoned team of venture investors, ex-founders, and investment management executives, we invest our capital, time, and network into highly defensible, fast-growing companies with the potential to solve the world’s largest problems. Our strategy is grounded on writing high conviction checks at Pre-Seed and Seed with healthy follow-on reserves through Series A; demonstrating deep value to enable increased ownership over time. Our experienced team is headquartered in New York City and London, but we are excited to meet founders from around the world with a strong preference for diverse founding teams. At its core, we believe that diversity is not only good for business, but great for financial returns.
Fund Advisor
2021
The W Fund is a Venture Capital firm that invests in early stage, tech-enabled startups led by women and underrepresented founders.
Fund Advisor
2021
Designing better ways to work through cutting-edge products, premium services and exceptional experiences that enable people to reach their full potential. HR, Talent, Time Management, Benefits and Payroll. Informed by data and designed for people.
Founding Member
2019
Chief is a private network designed for the most powerful women in executive leadership to strengthen their leadership, magnify their influence, and pave the way to bring others with them. Launched in 2019 by Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan, its mission is to drive more women to the top and keep them there. Chief has been recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2021, and its diverse membership includes 20,000 of the most senior executives in the United States. To apply to join, visit chief.com.
Mentor
2019
Techstars is the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. Techstars founders and their teams connect with other entrepreneurs, experts, mentors, alumni, investors, community leaders, and corporate partners who will help their companies grow. Techstars operates three divisions: Techstars Startup Programs, Techstars Mentorship-Driven Accelerator Programs and Techstars Corporate Innovation Partnerships. Techstars Mentorship-Driven Accelerator Programs help founders do more faster and Techstars Startup Programs inspire, educate and connect entrepreneurs. Techstars Corporate Innovation Partnerships helps brands supercharge growth by accelerating innovation and cultural transformation. Techstars accelerator portfolio includes more than 1,500 companies with a market cap of $13.9 Billion.
Steering Committee
2017
All Raise is on a mission to accelerate the success of female and non-binary founders and funders to build a more prosperous, equitable future. Born out of a grassroots movement in 2017, our programs arm women with access, guidance, and support to advance their professional growth. When the architects of tomorrow better reflect the world, our world is better served.
Head of Due Diligence & Advisor
2016
PeopleTech Partners is an early stage advisory and investment group that leverages the insights of current People Leaders operating in top tier businesses to accelerate the growth of companies in our portfolio. Our thesis is simple: We believe that it’s critical for founders to have key partners that work in the companies their products serve. If founding teams have the right partners early enough, their product trajectory accelerates, and their businesses thrive. To learn more about PeopleTech Partners (PTP) and subscribe to our newsletter, visit www.peopletechpartners.com.
Founding Member
2020 - 2022
Redefining leadership with a community of business leaders prepared to make decisions that positively impact our communities, society and planet.
Founding Board Member and President
2018 - 2022
NYC Blend is a fellowship, community, and collaborative event series for the NYC tech community promoting diversity, inclusion, and empowerment. Our Connect program, currently in beta, directly provides access to venture capital firms for underrepresented founders. We also host public events to promote access, transparency, and education around diversity and inclusion in tech. NYC BLEND is facilitated by VCs operating in the greater New York City area.
Curator
2020 - 2021
#1kproject - Inspired by the immense needs felt by families in the pandemic, we came together to connect families in crisis with direct support of $1k each month for 3 months from a sponsor family. Within a few tweets, a team of entrepreneurial, tech and design talent came together to start The $1k Project. We use personal networks to directly match a family impacted by the pandemic with a family committed to giving them $1k for 3 months.