Vree Ventures | Elevating Venture Investing

Elevating Venture Investing

Elevating Venture Investing

Authentic Investing

Vree Ventures is one of the few venture funds focused on an inclusive group of entrepreneurs leading B2B technology and tech-enabled companies at their first inflection point of growth. We believe there is a market need for supporting female entrepreneurs beyond Series A; the stage where most venture funds focused on female founders stop investing.

Holistic Empowerment

As a graduate of an all-female college, I know first-hand a one size fit all approach doesn’t typically fit women. Vree Venture’s manner of investing involves curated support to address each business’ unique needs to achieve rapid growth. From creative capital structures to culture creating and sustaining, we leverage our vast networks and skillsets to bring our entrepreneurs the support they need.

Authentic Investing

Holistic Empowerment

Discover

We are passionate about elevating venture investing.  This means finding the best entrepreneurs with an emphasis on female founders who are currently underserved by the current venture landscape.

Invest

We take a market driven and creative approach to value and structure, ensuring a win, win partnership from the start.

Support

We recognize female and diverse founders may require support that differs from traditional VC models.  We are equipped to provide traditional support such as advising on go-to-market strategies and on developing strategic partnership relationships, and in non-traditional ways such as executive coaching, high performing team coaching, media training, and branding and storytelling.   In every investment, we curate the optimal support.

Exit

We seek to prepare our companies for a successful exit through both an IPO and an acquisition. We believe optionality on exit type leads to better outcomes for our founders and investors.

Return

We believe alpha is achieved through supporting entrepreneurs historically overlooked by the venture community and our customized hands-on approach.

Vanessa Vreeland

As the first granddaughter of Sicilian Immigrants, I saw my family realize the American Dream despite the heavy prejudice they experienced and their lack of education. As a Generation X female, I was told girls could do and be anything.  These two influences led me to believe it was not only my privilege, but my duty to pursue a field of study traditionally dominated by men.

I’ve spent the last 25 years breaking barriers and biases in banking, finance, private equity and venture capital.  I’ve led teams that have collectively invested $600MM in over a 100 funds and over 40 operating businesses across many industries and company lifecycle stages. My team’s investments generated high ROI and drove over a dozen strategic partnership discussions which led to three acquisitions and six meaningful strategic partnerships/commercialization relationships.

I achieved great success, but at great cost. Corporate America has come a long way in the last two and half decades, but biases continue to run deep and there remains much truth in the adage that women must be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

I started Vree Ventures because my skillset and track record places me in the unique position of being able to drive meaningful impact for female and founders who have received the same percentage of VC funding since I started in the industry during the dotcom boom. Change needs to happen and my team and I are excited to be part of the movement.

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Adam Davies

I grew up and began my career in London before moving to New York in my mid-20s attracted to the bright lights, 24×7 energy, lure of the U.S. capital markets, and belief that anything was achievable here; but when I’m not working you can find me with my wife and two boys skiing (they do the jumps), paddleboarding, or hiking with our family Bernedoodle.

I’ve spent over 25 years advising a diverse universe of public and private companies and investors on a broad variety of corporate finance strategies and transactions, ranging from acquisitions and divestitures to raising private capital from venture stage through maturity, and accessing the public equity markets in IPOs, follow-on and equity-linked offerings.

I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to work with hundreds of management teams; from small early-stage companies reinventing sectors, to large ‘sophisticated’ public companies. Working with founder-led earlier stage businesses is by far the most personally rewarding, driven by teams with passion, drive and a deep desire to learn from those around them and draw wisdom from my experience. With these trusted relationships, I can support transformational growth and success.

I am excited to bring this passion and expertise to Vree Ventures.

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Lisa Tiller

Over the last 20 years I have worked as a sales leader in the healthcare and technology space with a concentration in medical aesthetics and dermatology. With a degree in Psychology, I always wanted to go into sales to leverage my understanding of behaviors, motivation, and relationships. Watching my parents build their company and eventually co-founding my own, I know that a business is only an idea without sales.

I co-founded MedShift, a med-tech company, in 2015 and developed a unique sales and marketing strategy to facilitate B2B and B2C transactions. Under my leadership, I grew the customer base to over 2000 unique accounts and grew sales to over $42m yearly by 2022 and EBITDA of $18.6m. In early 2023, our team successfully completed a $108m capital raise to fuel the consistent growth.

After hiring my succession team, I evolved into a Strategic Advisor and Board Member at MedShift allowing me to focus on what really fuels me, early-stage entrepreneurship. My career has given me the opportunity to work the spectrum of large corporations down to sole proprietorships. All experiences bring valued lessons but my greatest satisfaction is in working with the individual. I love working with someone to foster creativity, share ideas, and build together. It is no wonder that one of my favorite sayings is “A rising tide lifts all boats”.

As the mother of a cancer survivor, I am an active fundraiser for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. I have been honored to receive national recognition for my efforts but the greatest honor has been watching my daughter beat leukemia. I am excited to bring my skillset to Vree Ventures to support female founders and build a future for my daughter and others to see that women can do anything.