Chloe Sladden

Co-CEO, co-founder

2019 - Current

Honeycomb is a free, private and easy-to-use collaborative parenting app that helps you team up with your school or parent community to conquer day-to-day logistics together. Put faces to names, stay on top of your school calendar, and crowd-source camps, activities and other parenting tasks. By helping families tackle school communications, calendars and parenting logistics together, Honeycomb lightens your parenting load and builds a supportive community in weeks, not years. Our mission is to release the full joy of parenting and by reducing hours spent on logistics and increasing time spent in community. Seed round led by First Round Capital Co-CEO, co-founder: Ramesh Balakrishnan

Founding Partner

2015

#ANGELS is an investment collective founded by Chloe Sladden, Jessica Verrilli, April Underwood, Katie Stanton, Vijaya Gadde and Jana Messerschmidt in 2015. We are a team of senior operators with experience scaling some of the most impactful technology companies of the past decade, including Twitter, Google, Slack, and Netflix. We invest in great early stage ideas and teams. Our mission is to get more women on the cap tables of successful startups. As investors, we back ambitious founders pursuing bold ideas. We collectively have a portfolio of 100+ companies across a wide range of industries. Some of our portfolio companies include Gusto, Bird, Vector Space, Coinbase, Nurx, Carta, Color, Rival, Brandless, Moxxly, Winnie, Buoyant, Lygos, OneConcern, Carrot Fertility, Airtable, and Literati. Beyond investing, we also host #ANGELS Access events and conversations to build community, diversify networks, and include and promote women in frontier fields shaping the industry.

Board member

2018 - 2022

PL+US's strategy is to transform workplaces, public policy, and culture so that everyone can give and receive family care when it matters most. Executive Director Katie Bethell was named one of Fortune's world's greatest leaders in 2018 for her work driving the grass-roots movement to bring paid family leave to all Americans.

Investor

2015 - 2020

Board Member

2015 - 2019

Public board member, starting at spin-off from parent company, through hostile take over attempt, CEO search and eventual merger with Gatehouse/New Media. Member of the CEO Search, Nominating and Transformation Committees. Gannett is the largest news publisher in the United States, known for the iconic USA TODAY as well as over 260 local media organizations. Its mission is to connect, protect and celebrate local communities. NYSE: GCI

Advisor

2015 - 2019

A live participatory mobile video platform designed to create collaborative experiences and spontaneous togetherness. Acquired by Epic Games.

VP, Media

2009 - 2014

VP, Media, 2012-2014 Director, Media, 2009-2011 My team and I were responsible for the variety, volume and quality of Twitter’s content across news, music, TV, sports and politics; ensuring Twitter was indelibly woven into the traditional and new media landscape; and establishing Twitter as an influential new media engagement metric that moved ad dollars. I built the company’s media partnerships and strategy from the ground up, and oversaw Twitter’s growth from a few dozen celebrities and journalists to daily participation by many tens of thousands of the world’s most high profile individuals. I also helped build Twitter's media ecosystem, a key component of Twitter’s growth. By 2013, Twitter was integrated on-air in over 60% of primetime programming across top-rated networks. In 2015, Twitter won an Emmy for innovation in TV engagement.

Board member

2008 - 2013

Vice President

2005 - 2009

VP, Special Programming Projects (TV): 2007-2009 VP, Strategic Partnerships, Online: 2005-2006

Senior Associate & Associate, Media & Entertainment Practice

2003 - 2005

Formerly known as Booz Allen & Hamilton Senior Associate 2004-2005 Associate 2002-2004