E082: Jenna Bryant: Embedded Ventures

Co-Founder, CEO & General Partner, Embedded Ventures // Co-Founder, KittyCAD

Jenna Bryant is Co-Founder, CEO and General Partner at Embedded Ventures, a next generation venture capital firm that takes a commercial-first approach to investing in early-stage startups with applications that can serve the Department of Defense. Jenna is also the Co-Founder of KittyCAD, the world’s first and only company to build hardware design infrastructure for the internet. KittyCAD was incubated by Embedded Ventures.

Show Notes

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

00:17 What inspired you to become a VC?

02:58 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?

07:01 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?

09:47 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?

10:24 How do people contact you?

11:36 Thank you

Featured Guest Bio:

Co-Founder, CEO & General Partner, Embedded Ventures // Co-Founder, KittyCAD

Jenna Bryant is Co-Founder, CEO and General Partner at Embedded Ventures, a next generation venture capital firm that takes a commercial-first approach to investing in early-stage startups with applications that can serve the Department of Defense. Jenna is also the Co-Founder of KittyCAD, the world’s first and only company to build hardware design infrastructure for the internet. KittyCAD was incubated by Embedded Ventures.

Fund Information:

Launched in 2020, Embedded Ventures is a next generation venture capital firm investing in national security space startups beyond launch. With a thesis that takes a commercial-first approach to investing in early-stage startups with applications that can serve the Department of Defense, Embedded has a first-of-its-kind partnership with the United States Space Force.

Fund Site:

https://www.embedded.ventures/

Fund Contact:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/embedded-ventures/?viewAsMember=true

https://twitter.com/EmbeddedVC

https://www.instagram.com/embeddedventures/?hl=en

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBj2uu0rHlifI2ecdFS4EBw/about

Guest Contact:

https://www.jennabryant.com

https://www.instagram.com/jenna_bryant/?hl=en

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennabryant/

https://twitter.com/Jenna_Bryant