GingerBread Capital LLC

GingerBread Founder/CEO Linnea Roberts joins star panel at #MIGLOBAL on 5/7 to talk about great wealth transfer and investing in female founders w/ @SallieKrawcheck @kwanzajones @allen_tonya @erin_harkless Catch live stream at milkeninstitute.org

@hpierrejacques @HarlemCapital @a16z What a sweet story! Thanks for sharing this. And nothing is really random is it!

✍️ How a random LinkedIn DM changed everything for @HarlemCapital In December 2017 I got a random DM from a MBA student at Stanford that had a blog and she wanted to interview me That random person, Megan Holston, would go on to become a personal friend and Partner at @a16z I did the interview that month and a few months later she reached out again. She had interviewed someone else who she wanted me to connect with. That person ended up being Linnea Roberts of @GingerBreadCap After a few meetings, Gingerbread would go on to become our first $1M check and was what led to @jarridvtingle and myself stopping our recruiting processes at HBS and going all in on HCP That $1M gave us the conviction at a moment where we needed it. We had been raising for 5 months and only had $3M of our $25M target. It was the start of our 2nd year and we didn’t know if we would be able to do HCP full time. If the story stopped there it would be incredible, but it got 10x. Linnea would go on to introduce me to her longtime friend, Anilu, who had just joined as the CHRO at TPG. That meeting would lead to 6 months of conversation with almost every Partner at TPG and them becoming our anchor investor in Fund 1 and our long term partners. TPG’s anchor check was 20% of the fund target, but they would go on to introduce us to another 40% of the fund target, which helped us raise $40M instead of $25M So that random LinkdIn DM directly led to $15M, but in reality it led to conviction when we most needed it and us raising $40M I always tell Megan she helped raise Harlem Capital and I’m grateful for her The lessons for me are 1) You never know what will come of conversations so put yourself in as many situations as possible, within reason bc you can’t do it all 2) Life is random and there are inflections that can change your life 3) Check your DMs, doesn’t mean you have to reply to them

Awesome shout out on the @DatabentoHQ blog. We are proud to have this game-changing company in our portfolio of dynamic women-founded and led companies.

@DatabentoHQ We love this! Thanks for the feature. We're proud to have you in our portfolio of dynamic, transformative women-founded and led startups.

This week on our "Meet the investors" series, we're featuring @GingerBreadCap! @DatabentoHQ is proud to supported by a firm that's breaking down barriers and growing women-led businesses. Read more: to.dbn.to/GingerBreadCap… #WomenInFinance #InvestingInWomen #FemaleFounders #VC

@MoniqueWoodard utterly smashing!!

Turned the corner on another year yesterday 47 🖤

@lissijean A lesson in why you don’t use ChatGPT to write your vision statement

A lesson on how not to write a company vision.

Congrats to GBC port co founder @shivsiroya of @talamobile for being named to the fintech 50 list for the 7th straight year! Democratizing access to credit for people around the globe @forbes forbes.com/sites/jeffkauf…

@jeff_jordan @ImanAbuzeid @Forbes 👏🏻👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼

Big kudos to @ImanAbuzeid for some very well deserved recognition from @Forbes! forbes.com/profile/iman-a…

Big congrats to @PaigeHBuckner on your new role as CEO! We're thrilled to support @AllRaise and work with you to grow our ecosystem of women founders and VC investors, and get more capital into the hands of women building great companies. Brava! 👏👏👏👏

@SpringboardEnt @sxsw Loved being a part of this inspiring group of founders and investors!

Last Sunday, we had the pleasure of hosting a Brunch & Networking Event during the 2023 @SXSW Conference! A special thank you to our host committee for helping make this event possible and supporting our growing community of women entrepreneurs!

@BitwiseInd @sxsw @KaporCenter @KaporCapital @irms Congratulations!!!

#ICYMI: Bitwise Industries headed to @SXSW! ✨ Not only were we surrounded by amazing humans, we also won the Mid-Sized DEI Workplace Innovation Award! 🙌 ❤️ Read more here 👉 bit.ly/3ZVIX4Q #BitwiseIndustries #SXSW #BitwiseTeam

Happening today! @sxsw 2:30 pm CT. Prepare to be dazzled. @tophday @Monique_Mosley_ @KayKoplovitz @MoniqueVilla @Elevateventures @ReignVc @SpringboardEnt @LaunchTN @KatherineLRice

@candicecincy @statesman Whuut? That is unacceptable

We just got turned around on the river trail in Austin and stopped to find an Uber. A security guard from the @Statesman walked out of a building and threatened to call the police because we were on private property…yall we were in a public parking lot. The escalation was UNREAL. It’s time to leave Texas. I’ve never in my life had someone threaten to call the police on me…never ever ever. #SXSW2023

Just the right message for International Women’s Day. Perfectly said @LeslieFeinzaig - No more female founder takedowns!

@LeslieFeinzaig @FastCompany Bravo Leslie! We could not have said it any better. Glass minefields indeed. Love your clarion call for women to be brave, not perfect. 👏🏾👏🏼👏🏽👏🏻

My latest for @FastCompany fastcompany.com/90861837/inter…

When a woman succeeds, too many people - including other women - resent her for it. And for ambitious female founders of high growth companies, all too often this leads to a takedown. It's time to stop. #NoMoreTakedowns

@jefielding @TheFundGlobal Love this!

Since the majority of our investing partners are women at @TheFundGlobal, everyday is actually #InternationalWomensDay over here! 🙌🏼❤️🌈🦄🌎

@alisonmartino Wow!!

I mean… WOW

@mwalsh Yes! March 10-14

Who’s heading to #sxsw? What dates?

This is great news! For Bitwise and for Chicago! Congratulations to founders @irms and @jakeasoberal 🎉 👏🏾👏🏽👏🏻👏🏼

Hey founders: How do you connect with your investors after the check is written? Do they share their expertise, insights, networks, time? GBC’s @KatherineLRice on why you need ‘thought partners’ on your cap table. gingerbreadcap.com/hey-founders-f…