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Joanne Wilson

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Joanne Wilson
Born1961 (age 64–65)
Los Angeles, California
🏡 ResidenceNew York City, New York
🏳️ NationalityAmerican
🎓 Alma materSimmons College
💼 Occupation
businesswoman, angel investor, business blogger
📆 Years active  1994–present
👩 Spouse(s)Fred Wilson
🌐 Websitegothamgal.com

Joanne Wilson (born 1961) is an American businesswoman, angel investor, business blogger, founder of Gotham Gal Ventures and the co-founder of an annual Women Entrepreneurs Festival. She is best known for backing female-founded companies.

Biography

Early life and education

Joanne Wilson was born in 1961 in Los Angeles, California.[1] Her mother was a teacher and her father was an underwater nuclear warfare engineer.[1] Both parents were entrepreneurs and had their own businesses. They divorced when Wilson was 16.[1]

Wilson majored in Finance and Retail Management at Simmons College in Boston, which she graduated in 1983.[2][1] She met her future husband Fred Wilson while at college and they moved to New York City.[3]

Career

Wilson began her career at Macy’s, working there for 4 years in retail apparel department.[4] Her first job at Macy’s was overseeing a cosmetics department at Macy's with over 100 employees.[5]

After Macy’s she oversaw a company in the garment center, then oversaw sales for the startup magazine and events company called Silicon Alley Reporter (sold to Dow Jones in 2003).[4][6] She also chaired the nonprofit MOUSE (Making Opportunities in Upgrading Schools in Education), the organization focused on technology in inner-city schools.[7][8][9]

Wilson has been blogging since 1994 under the name Gotham Gal.[10] Later, she named her investment fund Gotham Gal Ventures.[11][12]

She turned to investing in 2007.[13][5]

In 2010, together with Nancy Hechinger from the New York University she co-founded and co-chaired an annual Women Entrepreneurs Festival.[14] Hosted by the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), a two-year graduate program at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, it aims to foster a strong community of women entrepreneurs.[14][15][16] From 2010 to 2015, she chaired the board of Hot Bread Kitchen, a nonprofit established by Jessamyn Rodriguez, that promotes and trains female and minority bakers.[12][17][18] She also was the first co-Chair of Path Forward, a non-profit, established in 2018 with a mission to get people back to work after they’ve taken time off for caregiving.[19]

Since 2009, Wilson has also been a board member of the High Line, a public park maintained by Friends of the High Line, in partnership with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.[20]

Investments

In 2007, Wilson made her first investment into Lockhart Steele’s startup Curbed, the media company acquired by Vox Media in 2013 for between $20 to $30 million.[13][5] Some of her early investments included Food52, Rick's Picks, DailyWorth, Hot Bread Kitchen and Scoot.[21][22][23]

In 2014, she invested in Blue Bottle Coffee, a coffee roaster and retailer, and in Spoon University, a food media company, in 2015.[24][25] Later in 2015, she invested in Nestio, the NY-based leasing and marketing platform for residential landlords.[26]

Wilson became known for investing in women-led startups.[27][28] In 2012, 13 of her 17 investments were in tech and out of those 13, 10 were women-founded companies.[5] As of 2016, around 70 percent of her investments were in companies led by women.[13] By 2017, she has backed more than 90 female-founded companies, including 3 of the 11 black women-led startups to have raised over $1 million.[29][30]

In 2017, Wilson made two angel investments in the cannabis industry. She invested into Octavia Wellness, a startup that offers direct-to-consumer cannabis products to seniors, and Beboe, which offers high-end cannabis products.[31][32][33]

In August 2018, Forbes ranked her 25th in the list of “50 Angel Investors Based On Investment Volume And Successful Exits” with 63 investments.[34]

Personal life

Wilson is married to venture capitalist Fred Wilson, a cofounder of Union Square Ventures.[35] The couple live in New York City. They have three children.[36]

In 2016, Crain's New York Business included Fred and Joanne Wilson into its “Power Couples” list.[37]

Recognition

Year Recognition Recognition type Awarding body
2012 THE ANGEL 100: New York's Top Early Stage Investors[38] Feature Business Insider
2012 THE SILICON ALLEY 100: The Coolest People In New York Tech This Year[39] Rating Business Insider
2012 League of Extraordinary Women 2012[40] Rating Fast Company
2013 The 15 Hottest Women In Tech Who Were Not Hot Enough For Complex's '40 Hottest Women in Tech' List[41] Feature Forbes
2013 40 Women To Watch Over 40[42] Feature Forbes
2016 Women of Influence[43] Award New York Business Journal
2017 10 Investors Who Are Authentically Committed To Funding Female Founders[44] Feature Forbes
2018 50 Angel Investors Based On Investment Volume And Successful Exits[34] Rating Forbes
2018 30 women in venture capital to watch in 2018[45] Feature Business Insider
2019 Notable Women in Tech[19] Feature Crain’s New York Business

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Griffit, Donna (2017-02-10). ""It's Not All About The Concept"". Medium. Archived from the original on 2019-11-10. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  2. ↑ "Alumnae/i achievements". Simmons. Simmons University (Fall 2012): 14. 2012. Retrieved 2019-11-10 – via yumpu.com.
  3. ↑ Shontell, Alyson (2014-04-13). "FRED WILSON Q&A: The Legendary Investor Talks Retirement, Tumblr's Exit, And Getting Over A Tough Year". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 2018-11-24. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Suster, Mark (2011-04-19). "8 Startup Lessons You Could Learn From Gotham Gal". Fast Company. Archived from the original on 2013-11-10. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Shontell, Alyson (2012-02-29). "Meet Joanne Wilson, an investor in 17 startups who's part of a tech power couple". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 2013-03-27. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  6. ↑ Rewick, Jennifer L. (2000-02-29). "Silicon Alley Reporter Seeks Some Silicon Alley Investors". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2019-11-10.(subscription required)
  7. ↑ "Joanne Wilson: The Woman Empowering Angel Investor". Columbia University. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-06-20. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  8. ↑ "Activate New York 2013: Judging panel". The Guardian. 2013-09-18. Archived from the original on 2014-09-05. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  9. ↑ Allbritton, Chris (2000-04-23). "A MOUSE THAT ROARED The crusade to get city students online". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on 2019-11-10. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  10. ↑ Hui, Li (2019-08-22). "美国天使投资人 Joanne Wilson：我从不追逐热点，那不是我的风格！" [American angel investor Joanne Wilson: I never chase the hot spot, that's not my style!] (in Chinese). China News Service. Archived from the original on 2019-11-17. Retrieved 2019-11-17.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  11. ↑ Chernova, Yuliya (2014-02-28). "Sweeten.com Tries to Make Home Renovation Process Less Bitter". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2019-11-12. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
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  17. ↑ Waldman Rodriguez, Jessamyn; Turshen, Julia (2015). The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook: Artisanal Baking from Around the World. Clarkson Potter/Publishers. p. 293. ISBN 978-0-8041-8618-6 – via Google Books. Search this book on
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  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 "Notable Women in Tech". Crain’s New York Business. 2019-04-08. Archived from the original on 2019-05-08. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  20. ↑ "Leadership: Board of Directors". High Line. Archived from the original on 2019-11-17. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  21. ↑ Boyd Myers, Courtney (2011-12-11). "Breakfast of Champions: Joanne Wilson on writing, investing and mentoring". The Next Web. Archived from the original on 2016-10-08. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
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  26. ↑ Tepper, Fitz (2015-12-01). "Residential Real Estate Platform Nestio Lands An $8M Series A Round". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 2016-01-01. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  27. ↑ O'Brien, Sara Ashley (2015-05-05). "How this investor is bridging the 'bravado gap'". CNN Business. Archived from the original on 2015-04-10. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  28. ↑ Kunst, Sarah (2016-02-22). "Just 4% of Female-led Startups Are Run by Black Women—I'm One of Them". Fortune. Archived from the original on 2017-03-05. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  29. ↑ Cabot, Heather; Walravens, Samantha (2017). Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech. St. Martin's Publishing Group. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-250-11226-2 – via Google Books. Search this book on
  30. ↑ O’Connor, Clare (2017-02-27). "Inside one woman investor's plan to get black female founders funding". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
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  38. ↑ Shontell, Alyson (2012-06-21). "THE ANGEL 100: New York's Top Early Stage Investors". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 2019-07-26. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  39. ↑ Shontell, Alyson (2012-10-25). "THE SILICON ALLEY 100: The Coolest People In New York Tech This Year". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 2018-11-26. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
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