Marcia Mitchell

Director, NY Ventures

2022 - Current

New York Ventures partners with exceptional founders solving large-scale problems using innovative technologies. Our goal is to build a robust and diverse startup ecosystem across New York state, leveraging public and private sector assets. The state has devoted $100M to a direct investment fund that is actively deploying capital. Our companies make a commitment to building a diverse workforce in NY, generating economic activity and job growth.

Board Observer

2022

Enabling the quantum internet.

Senior Associate

2020 - 2022

ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City. Founded in 2008, ffVC focuses on investing in technology-enabled companies across emerging industries, including applied AI and machine learning, cyber security, robotics, drones, fintech and insurtech.

Partner Operations Manager

2018 - 2020

Founder

2015 - 2017

Berkshire Collective was a boutique digital strategy consultancy specializing in app and website development.

Director, Analysis & Insight

2014 - 2017

Q is a global innovation consultancy linking deep strategic insights with creative foresight to envision, develop and scale innovation. We have one purpose: help companies #thrive from the inside out. "Q is just what we needed to re-shape our innovation direction." - Libby Saylor Wright, former VP of Strategy, The Coca-Cola Company. (Current COO, US Retail & Consumer Goods, Microsoft)

Senior Digital Marketing Consultant

2012 - 2015

- Aided the creation and implementation of Dominion’s social posting platform ‘Prime Response’ including the content library and social reporting dashboard by working directly with Prime's software developers, business analyst and product managers. - Provided analysis and insight into consumer behaviors and motives on social media.

Contributor, Founding Member

2011 - 2014

- Published essays and articles on workers' rights in the fashion industry. - Interviewed on Huffington Post LIVE 'The Real Model Experience' and NPR's Fresh Air, February 2014. - Essays included on the syllabus for 'The Geopolitics of Beauty' taught in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU, September 2013. - Featured speaker at Princeton University's Center for African American Studies, March 2012.