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Megan Ananian

Partner at Great Wave VC | Early-stage built world x climate

Brooklyn, New York

VC
Angel
Investor

Invests in

Stages:

Pre-seed
Seed

Locations:

United States

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $500,000.00

Skills

Venture Capital
Early-stage Startups
Finance
Public Speaking
Leadership
Analysis
Organizational Development
Editing
Spanish
Travel Planning
Investment Banking
Municipal Bonds
Management
Financial Risk
Marketing
Social Media
Financial Analysis
Bond Markets
Microsoft Office
PowerPoint

Education

Investments

itselectric

Preseed

Total Funding: $100K

Helio Home

Seed

Total Funding:

The Riveter

Seed

Total Funding: $26M

Tia

Seed

Total Funding: $57M

Work Experience

Great Wave Ventures

2023

  • Partner

    2023

    Investing in early-stage built world, climate, and logistics solutions (fka Agya Ventures) Backed by Japanese institutions

The Helm

2020 - 2022

  • General Partner

    2020 - 2022

    Raising a fund for female founders in technical fields Invested in 15 companies incl. Its Electric, Opna, Simplifyber, Oova, AOA, Venus Aerospace, Inaru, Realword, Dogdrop, Aplos, Leda Health Launched a 100+ women's syndicate teaching women how to begin angel investing

Circle

2019 - 2020

  • Investor/ Operator

    2019 - 2020

    Employee #12 at Seedinvest, a broker dealer + financial platform for retail + accredited investors 1 of 4 on Investing team, with sales quotas Acquired by Circle in 2019

2U

2018 - 2018

  • Product Manager, Learning Management System

    2018 - 2018

    Online LMS for 23 graduate schools serving over 33,000 students

Wells Fargo

2011 - 2017

  • Investment Banking (CapEx financing for Manufacturing & 501c3)

    2011 - 2017

    Led the Northeast P&L completing over $1B in corporate bond transactions + derivatives Drove sales closing 25 deals a year

Bank of America

2010 - 2010

  • Financial Sponsors, Industrials

    2010 - 2010