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Tiana Pidgeon

Venture Mentor, AWS Impact Accelerator at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

United States

Overview 

Tiana Pidgeon is a Venture Capital Investor at AFV with a background in investment banking and strategy, having worked with notable companies like Amazon Web Services and Barclays. She holds an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and has expertise in sectors such as Cybersecurity, ClimateTech, and FinTech. Pidgeon's career highlights include her role as a Venture Investor at American Family Ventures and her experience as a Venture Mentor at Amazon Web Services, showcasing her strong leadership skills and strategic acumen in the venture capital industry.

Work Experience 

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American Family Ventures

  • Venture Investor

    2022 - Current

    American Family Ventures (AFV) is a multi-limited partner, early-stage VC firm with LPs representing $100B+ in assets and $25B+ in annual premiums spanning most major lines of insurance. AFV has invested in 65+ startups to date with 17 exits. Investing globally in Seed to Series B across InsurTech, FinTech, and Climate verticals.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • Venture Mentor, AWS Impact Accelerator

    2022

Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.

aws.amazon.com
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Rise, created by Barclays - the Home of FinTech

  • Venture Mentor

    2022 - 2022

VC

Various Companies

  • Early Stage VC

    2020 - 2022

    Cultivation Capital is a $300MM+ VC investing across industries including software/SaaS, climate, and defense/geospatial technology (2021-2022) Select sourcing/deal experience: *Seed investment; deep-tech SAR in Europe *Seed investment; maritime supply chain in Israel *Acquisition of cyber risk management platform in the US Tusk Venture Partners (2021) - Booth MBA Lab *GTM strategy for autonomous trucking portfolio company Tarrson Impact Investing Fund / MIINT (2020-2021) *Seed investment; clean tech IoT in the US

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Bank of America Merrill Lynch

  • Investment Banking

    2021 - 2021

    Global Tech, Media, & Telecom (TMT)

TU

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

    2021 - 2021

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RapidSOS

  • Strategy & Operations Manager

    2018 - 2020

  • BD & Partnerships

    2018 - 2018

    Early team hire. Developed API integration use cases for enterprise customers.

RapidSOS is an intelligent safety platform that connects devices, apps, and sensors for safety agents.

Raised $355,730,006.00 from Acrew Capital, Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP), Harmonic Growth Partners, NightDragon, BAM Elevate, BlackRock, Insight Partners, BAM Elevate, Playground Global and Forté Ventures.

rapidsos.com
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Verizon

  • Corporate Strategy

    2015 - 2018

  • Investment Analyst | Venture Capital

    2015 - 2015

Verizon is a broadband and telecommunications company that provides information and entertainment services.

Raised $32,103,192,466.00 from U.S. Department of Defense, Connect Maryland, NYSERDA and NYSERDA.

verizon.com
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Techstars

  • Venture Accelerator - Startup Growth

    2016 - 2016

    Industrial IoT

Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.

Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.

techstars.com

Wells Fargo Capital Finance

  • Financial Analyst

    2016 - 2016

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