Nancy Torres
Venture Partner at Visible Hands
Oakland, California
Overview
Work Experience
Venture Partner
2024 - Current
Visible Hands is a pre-seed venture capital firm investing in overlooked founders building the future of financial services, healthcare, and climate. At the earliest stages of company-building, Visible Hands provides meaningful funding, personalized support, and social capital, helping founders build exceptional technology startups.
Visible Hands is a Venture Capital firm and Accelerator that provides meaningful funding and support to early stage companies.
Kauffman Fellows Class 28
2023
The Kauffman Fellowship is a two-year executive education program that identifies and develops global leaders in venture capital while providing a structured curriculum, peer learning, executive coaching, and networking. Kauffman Fellows is the largest network of VCs and innovation leaders in the world.
Co-investment VC firm supporting the mission of the Kauffman Fellows
Partner
2021 - 2024
Ulu Ventures is a leading seed stage venture firm in Silicon Valley funding diverse teams creating industry-leading market opportunities. Ulu generates great financial results using decision analysis to create a disciplined, repeatable decision-making process that analyzes risk-reward trade-offs and also reduces cognitive bias
Ulu Ventures primarily operates as a seed-stage venture fund.
Technology Investment Banking
2019 - 2021
Advised global leading internet, software, and hardware technology companies on major strategic financial decisions ranging from capital raising to M&A. MBA Associate (2019), Associate (2020-2021). Focus Areas: Fintech, Collaboration Software, Marketplaces Select Transactions: - Lead Financial Advisor to ZipRecruiter’s $3 billion Direct Listing - Lead Left Bookrunner to Monday.com’s $574 million IPO including $150 million concurrent private placement from Salesforce Ventures and Zoom Video Communications, Inc. - Lead Left Bookrunner to Cloudflare’s $525 million IPO - Lead Left Bookrunner to Xometry’s $302 million IPO - Lead Bookrunner to Couchbase’s $185 million IPO - Lead Left Bookrunner to Upstart’s $180 million IPO
Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Venture Capital
2018 - 2019
Early-stage venture firm focused on investing in minority and women founders in the United States
Global Business Development
2016 - 2017
Global Business Operations and Strategy focused on assessing, implementing, and tracking financial performance of Fintech and Driver partnerships and new products
Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.
Raised $30,212,450,000.00 from PayPal.
Design Research
2017 - 2017
IDEO's research & design lab partnering with industries to ideate, prototype, and invest in emerging technology applications. Focus Areas: Blockchain, Marketplaces
IDEO CoLab Ventures is invest in early-stage distributed web startups and co-create with them to ship new products and protocols.
Research Analyst
2012 - 2015
Data analysis, experimentation, research, and partnerships aimed at improving organizational operations for Google globally. Focus Areas: Behavioral Economics, Diversity Data operations and technology consultant for City of San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management through Google partnership with Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.