Mia Nguyen
VC at All Raise
Mia Nguyen
VC at All Raise
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Employee #1
2024 - Current
VC Champions Lead
2021
Providing mentorship opportunities for the next generation of women & underrepresented investors by connecting them with General Partners at top tier venture capital firms.
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.
Operating Principal
2022 - 2024
Joined as the first full-time employee, working alongside part-time General Partners (GPs). Wore many hats supporting the firm and its $60M AUM. Tracked capital deployment, executed the formation of single-asset SPVs, supported institutional fundraising efforts, revised portfolio monitoring system to track 200+ investments, prepared quarterly investor reports, hired & managed outsourced service providers to support with fund administration and financial services, and more.
Chief of Staff
2019 - 2022
Initially joined as a summer intern on the platform team (May 2019), transitioned to the investment team during undergrad (January 2020), and then joined full-time as Chief of Staff (January 2021). As Chief of Staff, I supported the co-founding partner, Michael Skok, with his new investments and portfolio companies as well as managed the firm's investor relations and fundraising efforts.
Advisor
2020 - 2022
Founder & Co-Director
2018 - 2020
Co-founded Northeastern's first student-run organization that aims to increase the number of female & nonbinary entrepreneurs through programs that build confidence and teach an entrepreneurial mindset.
Product Marketing
2020 - 2020
Joined as their 5th employee and first non-technical hire focused on helping find product-market fit. RemoteHQ was acquired by Presence in August 2023.
RemoteHQ enables businesses to create interactive meeting rooms where their employees can use video conferencing to communicate.
Raised $2,700,000.00 from Edward Lando, Underscore VC, Pareto Holdings, TechU Ventures and Charles Zedlewski.
Marketing Director
2018 - 2019
Managed a four-person marketing & design team for the largest club at Northeastern University.
Husky Startup Challenge Director
2018 - 2018
Program director for 40 ventures comprising of 100+ students for a semester-long bootcamp. Co-created the curriculum, sourced speakers and mentors, hosted weekly office hours, and executed a Demo Day.
Content Marketing Intern
2018 - 2018
Helped set content strategy, wrote travel blog posts, create competitive market maps, etc.
Student Founder of CC Cords
2016 - 2018
My first experience with entrepreneurship was at Barrington High School’s IncubatorEDU program. Co-founded CC Cords, a promotional premium product that combined the traditional lanyard with the a phone charger. Sold to trade shows, conventions, and school districts. Raised $13k in non-dilutive funding.
Northeastern Fellow
2017 - 2017
One of four students representing Northeastern University in a cross-university pitch competition with students from Boston College, Boston University, and Babson.