GingerBread Capital

We were proud to be an organizing sponsor of the All Raise All Stars VC Summit last month in Half Moon Bay, Calif.—co-MC’d by our own Ita Ekpoudom and featuring GBC Founder/CEO Linnea Roberts among the numerous star panelists and keynote speakers. What an inspiring gathering of VCs, LPs and allies who understand the power, strength, and superior outcomes of diverse teams — from the cap table to the boardroom to the org chart. We are confident that our collective vision will continue to prevail as we build a stronger, more equitable industry that supports the creativity and innovation of women founders and funders. See below for highlights from the event. Brava, All Raise !

It's always refreshing when the GingerBreadCap team gets together in person. Which is why we look forward every Fall to our annual retreat. This past October, we gathered in New York City to review the companies and funds we invest in, and to reaffirm our mission—to invest in female founders leading extraordinary, high-growth-potential enterprises. We also nailed down our Calls to Action for 2025, which are highlighted in our latest newsletter. Not a subscriber? Check out our blog and then sign up! (P.S., we had new headshots done, too!) https://lnkd.in/gtZK_B32 #femalefounders #investinwomen #womeninvc

GBC Founder/CEO Linnea Roberts joined Pivotal Ventures' Erin Harkless Moore, CFA and Damali Bond (Brown) on the stage at PJT Partners' Women's Forum in New York City on Nov. 19. Their discussion focused on how women can build and invest their wealth to support women founders and emerging female leaders in every facet of our society—from business and politics to sports and the arts. We were grateful to be part of this one-day summit that brought together senior women leaders in banking and finance. Featured speakers also included cancer survivor/heathcare activist/best-selling author Kathy Giusti, economist/author Elizabeth Economy, Poker Power Founder and entrepreneur extraordinaire Jenny Just, and media mogul Martha Stewart, among other luminaries. Learn more about the PJT Women's Forum: https://lnkd.in/gUwRre96 #womeninfinance #womeninbanking #femalefounders #femalefunders #investinwomen #womenleaders

Our portfolio of companies is dominated by founders who are motivated to solve a vexing problem or fill a glaring gap in the marketplace that they themselves have personally experienced—and who see the tremendous opportunity that others might overlook. That scenario certainly applies to the latest addition to GingerBread Capital's investments: Kalder. Its mission: "to help brands monetize their best customers without the usual tech hassles" by offering a new type of rewards program that enables brands to launch automated partner rewards programs. Kalder's Founder/CEO Gökçe Güven was driven to start a fintech company in 2021 that, in her words, "democratizes access and creates freedom." Her obsession for making great financial products was born in the aftermath of a financial crisis in her native Turkey that wiped out people's life savings overnight. You can read more of Gökçe's story in her shared post, below, announcing the close of Kalder's $7.5M seed round, led by Javelin Venture Partners. GingerBread Capital is proud to be an investor in this round. Congratulations, Gökçe! https://lnkd.in/gka6uiWv

Game on! We're ready for this powerhouse gathering of founders and funders at the All Raise Summit in Half Moon Bay, CA, 11/12-14. Check out this lineup of speakers (including our own Linnea Roberts and Ita Ekpoudom!): https://lnkd.in/gx9UUdHS

To all of our followers: We are proud to have supported Vice President Kamala Harris in her campaign for President. She ran under unprecedented circumstances with dignity, respect and intelligence. We are thankful to her for bringing so many Americans together and motivating us to make the world a better place for all. And we are grateful to her for showing us how to recognize and accept a loss without losing our collective will.    We will never regret acting from kindness, empathy, and love. And we will only strengthen our commitment to supporting women in all aspects of our society—from our right to equitable healthcare and autonomy over our own bodies, to getting more women into leadership positions in politics and in business, to using our capital to bolster and catalyze women’s entrepreneurial innovations.    Now, more than ever, is the time to heed the Vice President’s call to action: Let’s roll up our sleeves and keep doing the work. Onward! #vicepresidentharris #womensupportingwomen #womenleaders #breakingbarriers #womenmakinghistory #equityandinclusion

The GingerBread Capital team is a bicoastal entity and we often are working virtually when we’re not attending conferences and other industry gatherings around the country. So it’s always special when the whole team gets together IRL for our annual team meeting in NYC. Here we are, together again, in late October enjoying spectacular views of the Hudson River and our favorite lady (i.e., the Statue of Liberty) before our comprehensive review of our awesome portfolio of founders and funds. This has been a great year for strengthening our ongoing relationships, building new partnerships, and working to expand the VC ecosystem to be more inclusive and equitable. We’ve got more work to do, for sure. But we’re proud of how far we’ve come—as a team, and as an industry—investing and banking on the full potential of visionary, entrepreneurial women. https://lnkd.in/gySyhzrf #teamwork #femalefounders #investinwomen

We're so proud of our friends at BBG Ventures on the announcement of their new $60M Fund II that focuses on the broader pipeline of underestimated founders, in what BBGV Co-founders Susan Lyne and Nisha Dua are calling the "polycultural future of America." Susan and Nisha [pictured with GBC Founder/CEO Linnea Roberts this past summer at the G9 Ventures Summit in the Hamptons) started their VC fund in 2014 with an investment thesis focused on female founders, and have more than 100 companies in their portfolio to date. With this new fund, they are expanding their lens to back "[overlooked] founders - female or diverse - addressing the biggest pain points for [our nation's] polycultural population. At a time when diversity has become a dirty word, we’re leaning in." Their new fund's focus aligns with Americans' most fundamental needs: healthcare, future of work, fintech, climate and solutions for the underserved. These are the areas, they explain, that affect people across age, income, race, and gender. "We will continue to back founders at the earliest stage - leading or co-leading rounds at pre-seed and seed, across B2B and B2C. And, we’ll help them accelerate to Series A and beyond," they state in their newly released, comprehensive report, "Investing in the Polycultural Future of America." It's fascinating and original research of current perceptions of how Americans identify themselves and their fundamental priorities, based on the results of BBGV's surveys of over 2000 Americans across different races, genders, ages, jobs, incomes and geographies. Their findings illuminate new paths of opportunities for both founders and funders. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/eiefNfKb We're proud to be a longtime LP of BBGV, and a co-investor with them in female-founded and led companies like Spring Health, Starface World , Chief , HopSkipDrive and Zola. We applaud Susan and Nisha for their vision and their commitment to supporting diverse founders whose potential for transforming the way we live, work, and take care of ourselves and each other, has never been more critical to shaping a better, more equitable, <<polycultural>> future. Read more about their new fund, profiled in Fortune: https://lnkd.in/em55Cr9M and in Business Insider: https://lnkd.in/gRA3rJjD 🎉 Congratulations, Susan and Nisha! 🎉 #femalefounders #femalefunders #womeninvc #womeninvestinginwomen #diversefounders #equity

It’s always a great conversation when women who are passionate about investing in women founders get together to talk about how to steer more venture capital to their businesses. So we were thrilled when podcaster/women’s equity champion Laura Nix Gerson invited GBC Founder/CEO Linnea Roberts to have a chat with her on her podcast, Venture:F about the issues we care about most: how women can build their wealth and invest in the success of other women. Have a listen! https://lnkd.in/gyNVj7-V #womeninvestinginwomen #womenfounders #womenfunders #womeninfinance #womeninVC

We're super excited to be a funding partner of All Raise's second annual ✨All Stars VC Summit✨ on Nov. 12-14 at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay, CA. GingerBread Capital Founder & CEO Linnea Roberts will join an all-star lineup of speakers at this invite-only gathering of luminaries and rising leaders in the venture capital constellation. Linnea will be talking with Olivia Sterns Walton, President & CEO of Ingeborg Investments; Jacob Walthour, CEO of Blueprint Capital Advisors LLC; Susan Spears, Associate Director of Private Equity at UTIMCO; and Heidi Krauel Patel, Managing Partner of Rethink Impact, LP, about strategies for building and managing a team of Limited Partners who invest in the vision and success of emerging funders and founders. Other star speakers featured at the Summit include: Daniela Amodei, President & Co-Founder of Anthropic; Yasmin Razavi, General Partner of Spark Capital & Board Member of Anthropic; and Pro Cyclist and two-time US Olympic Gold Medalist Kristen Faulkner, Former Investor with Threshold Ventures. US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo will also deliver remarks (virtually). Learn more about the Summit here: https://lnkd.in/gNeB6cRe