Nancy Torres
Venture Partner at Visible Hands
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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