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De'Havia Stewart

Investor at Serena Ventures

Atlanta, Georgia

Overview

Work Experience

  • Investor

    2023 - Current

    $100M+ Early Stage venture firm founded by, world class athlete, Serena Williams.

  • ATL Chapter Lead

    2022

  • Investor

    2022 - 2023

    Anthemis is an early stage venture firm that specializes in FinTech with $1.5BN+ in AUM

  • Board Observer

    2022 - 2023

    Project Admission works directly with the live event industry to provide unique monetizing features and opportunities around the life of the ticket, adding value and simplifying the commercialization of live events.

  • Investor

    2020 - 2022

    $100M+ Venture Fund by Softbank with a mission of investing into outstanding Black, Latinx, and Native American founders at the seed and Series A.

  • Investment Committee

    2021 - 2022

    The BLK Foundation is a public charity dedicated to supporting African-American communities, businesses, and entrepreneurs through equity-free grants.

  • Emerging GP Program Lead (Volunteer)

    2021 - 2022

    Help spearhead All Raise's emerging manager program that helps women GPs with guidance and resources.

  • Investment Committee

    2020 - 2022

    Serve on the investment committee of the student run venture fund that helps students at HBCUs gain more venture investing experience while providing black founders with pre-seed capital

  • Executive Producer & Podcast Host

    2020 - 2021

    Drive the creative direction for the Divergent Unicorns podcast - from creating the vision, purpose, identifying guest, developing marketing materials, and producing audio. Divergent Unicorns is a Startup and Venture Capital podcast created to give advice and provide actionable steps to people that have been typically underrepresented (Black and Latinx) in fields related to Technology, Startups, and Venture Capital.

  • Senior Strategy Analyst

    2020 - 2020

    Clients include 95 of the Fortune 100 and over 75% of the Fortune 500. Recognized as a high performer with an early promotion.

  • Strategy Analyst

    2019 - 2020

    Assist senior leaders of large corporations with developing their strategic vision to help drive revenue growth, cost savings, and innovation. Project experience includes the following: - Merchandise Strategy Transformation for a $10B+ Retailer - M&A Merger of Equals Framework Strategy Assessment for a $60B+ Financial Services transaction - Digital Strategy Transformation for a $52B+ Consumer Based Goods company - Operating Model Strategy for the Sales organization of a $20B+ Telecommunications company - Program Management for the development of a new platform for a $5B+ Financial Institution

  • BiV Fellow

    2020 - 2020

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