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Lokilani Hunt

Venture Investment & Strategic Partnership at M&T Bank

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Lokilani Hunt is a Corporate Venture Capital professional at M&T Bank in Los Angeles, specializing in enterprise strategy and early-stage startup growth with a focus on impact investing. With a background in venture capital and experience at companies like Google and Uber, Lokilani has a strong track record of corporate development and strategic enterprise management. Highlights of Lokilani's career include her role as Vice President at M&T Bank overseeing venture investments and strategic partnerships, as well as her experience as a Senior Investment Associate at Visible Hands, demonstrating expertise in impact investing and FinTech sectors.

Work Experience 

  • Vice President, Venture Investment & Strategic Partnership

    2023 - Current

    The Ventures and Strategic Partnerships team accelerates growth by enabling new capabilities that position M&T to meet the future of banking. We develop relationships with the venture ecosystem to bring thought leadership, form partnerships, and support companies that align with M&T’s community-first values.

  • Assistant Vice President, Executive Associate

    2022 - 2023

M&T Bank’s Multicultural Small Business lab aims to promote business and financial inclusion through empowerment, providing diverse owners.

  • Senior Investment Associate

    2021 - 2022

    Visible Hands is a venture capital firm with a 14-week, virtual-first, accelerator on a mission to highlight and invest in the limitless potential of overlooked founders. At the earliest stages of company-building, we provide meaningful funding, personalized support, and social capital, helping our founders build exceptional technology startups.

Visible Hands is a Venture Capital firm and Accelerator that provides meaningful funding and support to early stage companies.

  • Founder In Residence

    2020 - 2020

    Social-FinTech HotDesk Founder - 501(c)3 B-Corp

SkyDeck Berkeley is a research university accelerator that serves as an apex startup launchpad for affiliated entrepreneurs.

  • SDO Project Manager, eDataFarm

    2018 - 2020

    Enhanced productivity, efficiency, and quality of ground truth for spoken language data (e.g. transcription, semantic annotation, goal success) across multiple Google products and services.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Offline Sales Manager, Growth Marketing

    2016 - 2018

    Enabled teams to bring to market data-driven applications of marketing strategies, optimizing the supply chain With best-in-class training and guidance for generating top performance offline sales consultants.

Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.

Raised $30,212,450,000.00 from PayPal.

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