On August 25th, 2021, Carlotta Siniscalco, Partner at Emergence Capital sat down with High Alpha Managing Partner Scott Dorsey for an interview unpacking her experience as an enterprise technology venture investor and her mission to elevate underrepresented founders in the world of tech, VC, and entrepreneurship. Prior to joining Emergence Capital, Carlotta was an investor in financial services and financial technology companies at Advent International, a large global private equity fund. At Advent, Carlotta worked on acquisitions both in Europe (including the carve-out of Cartasi/Nexi from ICBPI) and in the United States, and was a board observer at Transunion. She also spent time in the Business Operations group at Nerdwallet (a fintech startup) and was an early-stage investor at Ribbit Capital, a fintech-focused VC. In this episode, we revisit Carlotta’s Speaker Series where you’ll learn:
- The ingredients that lead to successful founders
- How to be a change agent and create more opportunities for underrepresented groups
- The importance of peer-to-peer, coaching support in Venture Capital
- The power of deep self-awareness
