Lisa Stone

General Partner/VC

2022 - Current

We invest in cultural and commercial leadership via breakthrough beauty and wellness products and services that everyone buys.

Angel Investor, Advisory

2014

* Alethea Group. Detects, assesses, mitigates disinformation, misinformation threats. * Double A Labs. No code B2B community and creativity platform for businesses. Web and mobile. * Hello Divorce. Legal tech platform for affordable, less-stressful family law. * Femly. Unbleached 100% cotton femcare + period equity. * Operator Collective. Collective venture model where LPs are experienced, diverse operators. * Portfolia Rising America II Fund. Invests in POC, LGBTQ founders +companies benefiting underserved communities. * Rocksbox. Direct-to-consumer jewelry stylist and retailer. Acquired by Signet [NYSE: SIG]. * Accompany. Chief of Staff app curated daily calendar, network, social media, news feeds (iOS, web, Gmail extension). Acquired by Cisco [NASDAQ: CSCO]. * TheCru. Peer coaching service by, for women seeking personal and professional growth. Acquired by Luminary.

Managing Director

2019 - 2022

Managing Director in Equity Fund I ($125MM), focusing on consumer platforms, services and location-based entertainment investment strategy, including Ellevest, OneHope, Pro.com, TOCA, Singularity. * Helped develop pipeline and closing of capital partners for investment into the Fund and SPVs. * Led in-depth business, financial, and industry due diligence on potential investment targets, synthesizing research and financial modeling into compelling investment memoranda utilized by investment team and internal stakeholders to support strategic decisions and identify investment opportunities. * Represented the Fund via membership and observer seats on the board of directors of Fund portfolio companies. Supported portfolio companies with research, market analyses, and strategic introductions. Assisted the Company’s CFO in managing portfolio company reporting and Fund reporting processes. * Led adoption of diversity inclusion rider (hat-tip: Alejandro Guerrero, ActOne Ventures) in investment term sheets to include women, BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA co-investors. * Edited “The Power of Diversity,” featured in Forbes, synthesizing 30 studies reporting diverse investing and founding teams drive better venture outcomes (https://wrg.vc/diversity). * Created programming on venture market trends in key sectors, pre- and post- COVID, for two WRG Roundtables serving limited partners, CEOs and partners in the Fund’s ecosystem.

Chief Strategy Officer

2017 - 2019

Entrepreneur in Residence

2016 - 2016

Chief Community Officer

2014 - 2015

CEO | Co-Founder

2005 - 2015

Created, led and sold the #1 women's social media publisher as CEO, co-founded in 2005 (127+MM reach, $30MM revenues). Acquired by SheKnows Media in 2014.

Strategist, Journalist

2004 - 2005

Vice President, Programming and Editor in Chief

1998 - 2001

Producer, News & Sports

1997 - 1998