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Christine Concepcion

Venture Partner at Ganas Ventures

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Christine Concepcion is a Venture Capital Managing Director based in the New York City Metropolitan Area with a background in investment banking and corporate finance. With experience at Fifth Star Funds and gener8tor, she has demonstrated expertise in cross-functional team leadership and making strategic investment decisions across various sectors, including Enterprise Applications, E-commerce, and FinTech. Christine holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and has a successful track record investing in seed and pre-seed stage companies in sectors like Consumer Health and Consumer Internet. Her career highlights include serving as a Managing Director at Fifth Star Funds and gener8tor, showcasing her strong leadership and analytical skills in driving successful investment strategies.

Work Experience 

  • Venture Partner

    2022 - Current

    Ganas Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed Web 2 and Web 3 community-driven startups in the US and Latin America. ​​

Ganas Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed Web 2 and Web 3 community-driven startups in the US and Latin America.

  • Venture Partner

    2022

  • Principal

    2021 - 2022

    ▪ Source investment opportunities using a structured approach to increase deal flow velocity in both quantity and quality by doing weekly sprints using multiple deal flow channels ▪ Develop investment theses around various industry verticals, review pitch decks, meet with startups and investors, and present top investment opportunities at weekly Partners Meetings and Investment Committees ▪ Work closely with the General Partners who have 45+ years of VC experience and invested in 10+ unicorns such as Beyond Meat, Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Wish, Oculus, Oscar, etc. ▪ Conduct quantitative and qualitative deep due diligence including: − Market sizing, team’s ability to execute, go-to-market strategy, key risks, business model, key metrics, financial modeling, competitive landscape, customer and investor interviews, cap table and waterfall analysis, term sheets and investment documents ▪ Built a large network across accelerators, VC / PE funds, strategics, and startup founders, and have access to VU's investor and strategic network

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  • Managing Director

    2023 - 2024

  • Managing Director

    2022 - 2023

    ▪ Source investment opportunities within underrepresented founders using a structured approach to increase deal flow velocity in both quantity and quality with a focus on consideration of gender & race ▪ Develop investment theses around various industry verticals, review pitch decks, meet with startups and investors, and present top investment opportunities to various external venture capital funds for opportunity to co-invest or follow on capital ▪ Conduct quantitative and qualitative deep due diligence including: − Market sizing, team’s ability to execute, go-to-market strategy, key risks, business model, key metrics, financial modeling, competitive landscape, customer and investor interviews, cap table and waterfall analysis, term sheets and investment documents ▪ Built a large network across accelerators, VC / PE funds, strategics, and startup founders, and have access to over 1k gener8tor alumni and portfolio companies

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  • Founder, Chief Executive Officer

    2019 - 2021

  • Financial Advisory Services

    2016 - 2018

    Supported the Global Leader & Managing Director of the Financial Advisory Services practice, which provided dispute analysis consulting services involving issues such as fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, product liability, & auditor malpractice Services included forensic accounting, cash flow projections, enterprise valuations, solvency analysis & other financial & economic analysis. The industries served include manufacturing, telecommunications, technology, financial services, retail, health care, hospitality, & real estate Served as the first point of contact for new and existing clients.

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  • Content Acquisition & Business Development

    2015 - 2016

    • Screened and researched new content for acquisition and distribution • Developed and fostered positive relationships with new and existing content partners • Oversaw thoughtful, detail oriented linear program scheduling • Collected relevant data for each content partner and input the data into a custom CMS system, which allowed for a detailed personal profile. • Often acted as first point of contact for potential clients, and content partners • Utilized strong analytical skills to prepare comparison reports and synopses of content

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  • Financial Analyst

    2012 - 2014

    Maintained & monitored fund & equity investments including inflows, outflows, valuations, risk ratings, performance analysis, & record maintenance Conserved executive time by collecting data, drafting proposals, & initiating communication within the company, clients & investors. Maintained a high level of confidentiality Compiled group level group level KPI reports

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