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Monique Woodard
Founding Partner & Managing Director at Cake Ventures
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Monique Woodard
Founding Partner & Managing Director at Cake Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Partner & Managing Director
2021 - Current
Board Member
2018 - 2020
Venture Scout
2018 - 2019
Venture Partner
2016 - 2018
Co-Founder
2011 - 2017
Founder of a community of startup founders — an organization dedicated to entrepreneurship and inclusion.
Innovation Fellow
2013 - 2013
As one of the first Innovation Fellows for the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation, I worked on helping a city at the epicenter of innovation use technology to transform workforce and other government services. During my fellowship term, I wrote the resolution on broadband and unlicensed spectrum which was adopted at the US Conference of Mayors and contributed to the City’s early strategy around municipal internet access.
Education
Bachelor of Arts & Sciences
1995 - 1998
Investments
Latest Articles
Medium•Nov. 2019
Cities Using Capital to Build More Inclusive Ecosystems
Talks about Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital and Investing
Medium•Jan. 2019
Encantos: The Future of Kid’s Media is Multicultural
Talks about Venture Capital, Consumer Internet and Media
Medium•Apr. 2018
Income Inequality is Bad for Startups…and VCs Should Be Pissed Off About It
Talks about Venture Capital, Women In Tech and Diversity