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Genevieve Lemarchal
General Partner at Suncoast Ventures. Early stage healthcare Investor
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Genevieve LeMarchal is the General Partner at Suncoast Ventures, specializing in early-stage healthcare VC investments. With a strong focus on health equity and impact, she has made significant investments in companies like Nicolette, Nulife Virtual, and Magic Robot. LeMarchal's career highlights include founding X X C E L E R A T E and serving as a Partner at FoundersPad VC, showcasing her expertise in venture capital and supporting female founders in the health innovation sector.
Work Experience
Board Member & Advisor
2024 - Current
Personalized Nutrition to treat Complex Health Issues
Raised $100,000.00 from StartUp Health.
Managing Partner
2021
We Invest with Impact by backing the most resilient entrepreneurs innovating in the nation’s most critical healthcare gaps with technology-driven solutions. The gaps we look for are large market niches that are overlooked and receive significantly less attention, resources, innovation, investment & popularity than others. Today this tends to mean women's health, children, population health, health access and equity, remote care including monitoring and diagnostics, enablement for physicians and nurses, etc. Healthcare technology, digital health, medical AI/ML, medical device.
Podcast Host
2022
Host of Adventureous Podcast- inspiring conversations with trailblazing entrepreneurs about purpose, impact and the incredible journey that is entrepreneurship. Real talk and deep dive conversations about the transformational journey of entrepreneurship, and the hearts and souls of the people behind the success and their personal transformations on the journey toward creating a business of purpose and impact.
Advisor
2019
Augmented reality for commercial construction QA via Holographic BIM overlaid on real-world as-built. Argyle is a Construction Augmented Reality tool for QA with superior alignment technology that makes it easy enough for anyone to use. Pinpoint issues before they become expensive rework problems. http://Argyle.build
Argyle brings BIM to the jobsite as aligned, interactive holograms.
Head of Healthcare Ventures
2021 - 2023
Expert Dojo is the most active early stage accelerator and fund in Southern California, and the 7th most active seed stage investor in the US (Crunchbase, 2022). 250+ total portfolio investments to date, 87% are underrepresented founders. Expert Dojo has one of the highest performing venture portfolios in the nation. I have done 35+ investments in healthcare. Learn more at ExpertDojo.com
Expert DOJO is an international startup accelerator based in Santa Monica.
Raised $1,070,000.00 from Virgil Andry and Bay Wharf Capital.
Partner
2019 - 2020
Focus on IP rich ventures. Life sciences, AI/ML, Quantum Systems, Security, Energy, Robotics.
Founder, Board Secretary
2016 - 2020
As one of the founders of the XXCelerate Fund, I believe in a world where funding high performing women entrepreneurs is the norm, not the exception. XXcelerate Fund is an education program and financing model for women-led businesses in growth stage.
Partner
2016 - 2020
FoundersPad is an early-stage startup fund and mentorship program in Bend, OR.
Co-Founder
2014 - 2017
Serving the billion dollar SMB eCommerce market for apparel, accessories, jewelry and online retail products. At Sadie we aim to make product photography simple. We believe access to a world class studio, a portfolio of eCommerce models, trained stylists and retouchers to help products look and sell better online should be just as simple as having the studio yourself. Sadie works with brands like Timbuk2, Pendleton, NastyGal, Hanna Andersson and more.
Founder
2013 - 2015
Nayariva is a play on the Quecheua word, "Nayaraque" which means "Who has many desires." Founder and acting chairman of the board of Nayariva, a social impact business with a mission to promote women's entrepreneurship and economic opportunity in developing nations. Currently active in the Tahuayo River region of the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, Nayariva products are designed with a foundation of sustainability and relevancy to a modern home and lifestyle.