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Madeline Darcy
Managing Partner at Kaya Ventures
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Madeline Darcy, a Harvard MBA graduate, currently serves as the Managing Partner at Kaya Ventures and as Co-Chair of the LA Chapter Steering Committee at All Raise. With a background in management consulting and venture capital, she has successfully invested in companies like Moku Foods and Eterneva, focusing on sectors such as Wellness & Fitness and Digital Health.
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2022 - Current
Kaya Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that invests in companies redefining health. Select investments include: AOA, Elektra Health, Ellevest, Eterneva, Folia Health, Guaranteed, Highlight, Partake, Pollen, Proov, Ounce, Sanzo, Swehl, and Wellen
Co-Chair, LA Chapter Steering Committee
2023
All Raise is here to move money, shift power, and change culture. We believe that in order to change who gets funding, you have to change who writes the checks. Which is why we are focused on helping women and nonbinary VCs get hired, promoted, funded, and be wildly successful in their roles.
All Raise is a nonprofit on a mission to accelerate the success of female founders and funders to build a more prosperous equitable future.
Raised $15,000,000.00 from Silicon Valley Bank, Sequoia Capital, Pivotal Ventures, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Reid Hoffman Foundation, Silicon Valley Bank and Pivotal Ventures.
Young Leaders Circle
2024
The Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle (YLC) includes 300 intellectually curious, motivated, and philanthropic young professionals between the ages of 25 and 40 who support the Milken Institute and its mission.
Managing Director, General Partner
2021 - 2022
(Acquired) CircleUp is a data-insights and investment platform powered by technology. CircleUp Growth Partners, our internal VC fund, utilizes a robust repository of retail intelligence and takes a quantitative approach to investing in world class entrepreneurs. Select investments include: Partake Foods, IQ Bar, Three Spirits, and Jot.
CircleUp is an investment platform that provides capital and resources to innovative, early-stage consumer brands.
Raised $253,000,000.00 from Michigan’s state pension fund and Pacific Life.
Vice President
2018 - 2021
Visible Ventures (fka Victress Capital) is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage consumer technology businesses. Select investments include: Daily Harvest, Summersalt, Vincere Health, Rae Wellness, Standard Dose, Lia Diagnostics, Blume, Alyce, WaitWhat, Mented, The NUE Co, and Harper Wilde.
Senior Consultant
2014 - 2017
Oliver Wyman is a leading international management consulting firm that combines deep industry knowledge and expertise to create breakthroughs for the organizations we partner with. Focus: • Partnered with clients leading change initiatives across strategy, growth, post-merger integration, organizational design, and operations • Led grassroots initiatives supporting diversity, including internal training and recruiting efforts. Recognized as Firm Contribution Leader for work across employee resource groups, recruiting, intellectual capital creation, and office culture development
CAVOK is a technical consulting firm that supports the development of manual systems and processes.
Campus Representative
2012 - 2013
Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.
Raised $1,170,230,000.00 from KB Securities, Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft.
Store Operations
2011 - 2012
The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports coverage and television shows.
Raised $11,000,000,000.00 from Citibank.
Research Assistant
2011 - 2011
• Used fMRI technology to investigate the psychological and neural processes by which we perceive ourselves and others as well as the biases involved in these perceptions • Helped facilitate research experiments involving undergraduate subject participants, ensuring consistency in data collection
Tutoring Program Coordinator - Women's Aboriginal Torres Strait Alliance (WATSA)
2009 - 2010
• Managed network of 30 tutors and oversaw event budgets, payrolls, schedules and logistics • Developed partnerships to market tutoring services, increasing number of enrolled students by 400% • Coordinated week long leadership camp for 80 Indigenous high school girls from rural Australia