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Paige Finn Doherty
Podcaster at Seed to Harvest Podcast
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Paige Finn Doherty
Podcaster at Seed to Harvest Podcast
San Francisco, California
Overview
Paige Finn Doherty is a Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures in San Francisco, specializing in pre-seed and seed investments across various sectors such as cybersecurity, AI, and SaaS. With a background in venture capital analysis and product management, Paige has also authored a book and hosts a podcast on venture capital, showcasing her expertise in the industry.
Highlights of Paige's career include her role as a Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures and her experience as a Growth Equity Analyst at TVC Capital, demonstrating her strong investment acumen and leadership in the venture capital space.
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2021 - Current
Behind Genius Ventures invests in preseed and seed companies at the future of work and play. we've made 42 investments to date, including Aviron, Beacons.AI, Aidaly, Pallet, and more. We're backed by Cendana Capital, GREE, and dozens of general partners, founders, and operators like Arash Ferdowsi, Heather Hartnett, and David Sacks. specific areas of interest: API-first products, wellness, creator economy, dev tools
Behind Genius Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed stage product-led companies.
Raised $1,660,000.00 from Coughdrop Capital, Tribe Capital, Bain Capital Ventures and Bossa Invest.
Podcaster
2021
I started my podcast Seed to Harvest to highlight the stories, tactics, and frameworks of investors, creators, and founders - and also to share my learnings from building Behind Genius Ventures. Seed to Harvest is a top 10% shared podcast globally, with 100k+ Youtube views & 10k+ downloads.
Author
2020
Seed to Harvest is a children's book about venture capital - the result of my conversations with hundreds of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, angel investors, and kids during the pandemic. It was truly a community effort, and Owen Doherty, my brother, illustrated the book in his signature anime style. Foreword by Midas Listers Ann Miura-Ko, co-founder of Floodgate and founding partner of All Raise. I self-published Seed to Harvest & have sold over 1500+ copies in 35+ countries.
Developer Success Engineer
2020 - 2021
leading demos for API-first product, guide developers through integration and new enterprise onboarding, onboarded 4 new Developer Success Engineers, built Twitter to 1500+ followers, wrote Hopin & Webflow case studies, planned customer release events
WorkOS is a unified platform with modern APIs and SDKs for enterprise-ready features.
Raised $95,000,000.00 from Abstract, Lachy Groom, Ballistic Ventures, Gokul Rajaram, Guillermo Rauch, Christian Reber, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Michael Ovitz, Shreyas Doshi and Greenoaks.
Early Stage Syndicate Lead
2020 - 2021
lead a syndicate investing in early-stage product led growth founders. my investing story got featured in the washington post. - coinvested with funds like the Accel & KP scout funds, a partner at Bessemer, and operator angels like Sahil Lavingia. intentional about making my deals accessible to and working with first time angels.
Growth Equity Analyst
2019 - 2020
- Source companies in B2B SaaS, specifically mission-critical tools in AI, cybersecurity, & vertical CRMs, - Providing post-investment finance, sales & marketing support to portfolio companies - Build retention recurring revenue Excel models & investment recommendations for B2B SaaS companies - Developing our IoT management thesis with our Vice President -Helping build a long-term strategic marketing plan for TVC Areas of Focus: healthcare, b2b payments, IoT, AI/ML, cybersecurity, e-commerce tech stack, vertical CRMs
Venture Capital Analyst
2018 - 2019
- Our SDSU undergrad team won 2nd place at the regional VCIC held at Google in Feb 2019 after only six weeks of training - Training of venture capital: evaluating pitch decks, analyzing start-ups, conducting due diligence sessions with entrepreneurs, negotiating term sheets, valuation of companies, alternative financing/investment terms, etc - Specialty in Market & Finance Analysis; Interest in CleanTech, CPGs, and SaaS companies
VCIC is a pioneering platform that allows its students to learn on private equity, the accelerator for the fundraising process.
Lead Technical Product Management Intern
2017 - 2019
-Lead a team of 18 software interns through Agile sprints; created a 20-page resource guide based on previous summer’s knowledge -Identified and reported bottlenecks in manufacturing using business intelligence tools such as SQL and Tableau -Spoke at external Q&A panels on careers at Northrop Grumman for target college students & corporate leadership
Airworthiness Intern
2016 - 2017
- Prepared training on different certification processes for the world’s first Airworthiness Academy in Sydney, Australia - Created Excel macro and underlying data schema to sort military airworthiness standards by complexity - Collected and analyzed six-figure budget data using Earned Value Management framework
Northrop Grumman Technical Services continues to advance its track record of excellence in the defense and national security requirements
Head Tutor
2017 - 2018
-Highest rated tutor in the Math and Statistics Learning Center in the SDSU Library, focus on all levels of calculus. We typically cater to the individual needs of over 1,500 unique visitors monthly. -Suggest and implement changes such as tutor training videos, whiteboard decals on tables, review sessions for students after tests, and aesthetic improvements to the center -Lead small review sessions of 8-10 students prior to and after Calculus 1 & 2 Tests.
Education
Bachelor's of Science
2016 - 2020
Lavin Entrepreneurship Program
2018 - 2020
Angel Fellowship Track
2021 - 2021
Diploma
2012 - 2016