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Megan Ananian
Partner at Great Wave Ventures
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Megan Ananian
Partner at Great Wave Ventures
Brooklyn, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2023 - Current
Investing in early-stage built world, climate, and logistics solutions (fka Agya Ventures) Backed by Japanese institutions
General Partner
2020 - 2022
Raising a fund for female founders in technical fields Invested in 15 companies incl. Its Electric, Opna, Simplifyber, Oova, AOA, Venus Aerospace, Inaru, Realword, Dogdrop, Aplos, Leda Health Launched a 100+ women's syndicate teaching women how to begin angel investing
Investor/ Operator
2019 - 2020
Employee #12 at Seedinvest, a broker dealer + financial platform for retail + accredited investors 1 of 4 on Investing team, with sales quotas Acquired by Circle in 2019
Product Manager, Learning Management System
2018 - 2018
Online LMS for 23 graduate schools serving over 33,000 students
Investment Banking (CapEx financing for Manufacturing & 501c3)
2011 - 2017
Led the Northeast P&L completing over $1B in corporate bond transactions + derivatives Drove sales closing 25 deals a year
Financial Sponsors, Industrials
2010 - 2010