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Nancy Torres

Venture Partner @ Visible Hands | Kauffman Fellow Class 28

Oakland, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $750,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $875,000.00

Skills

Decision Analysis
Project Management
Initial Public Offerings (IPO)
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
Investments
Investing
Venture Development
Design Thinking
Product Development
Finance
Financial Analysis
R (Programming Language)
Leadership
Strategy
Business Development
Marketing
Data Analysis
Spanish
Research
Management

Education

Work Experience

  • Venture Partner

    2024

    Visible Hands is a pre-seed venture capital firm investing in overlooked founders building the future of financial services, healthcare, and climate. At the earliest stages of company-building, Visible Hands provides meaningful funding, personalized support, and social capital, helping founders build exceptional technology startups.

  • Kauffman Fellows Class 28

    2023

    The Kauffman Fellowship is a two-year executive education program that identifies and develops global leaders in venture capital while providing a structured curriculum, peer learning, executive coaching, and networking. Kauffman Fellows is the largest network of VCs and innovation leaders in the world.

2021 - 2024

  • Partner

    2021 - 2024

    Ulu Ventures is a leading seed stage venture firm in Silicon Valley funding diverse teams creating industry-leading market opportunities. Ulu generates great financial results using decision analysis to create a disciplined, repeatable decision-making process that analyzes risk-reward trade-offs and also reduces cognitive bias

2019 - 2021

  • Technology Investment Banking

    2019 - 2021

    Advised global leading internet, software, and hardware technology companies on major strategic financial decisions ranging from capital raising to M&A. MBA Associate (2019), Associate (2020-2021). Focus Areas: Fintech, Collaboration Software, Marketplaces Select Transactions: - Lead Financial Advisor to ZipRecruiter’s $3 billion Direct Listing - Lead Left Bookrunner to Monday.com’s $574 million IPO including $150 million concurrent private placement from Salesforce Ventures and Zoom Video Communications, Inc. - Lead Left Bookrunner to Cloudflare’s $525 million IPO - Lead Left Bookrunner to Xometry’s $302 million IPO - Lead Bookrunner to Couchbase’s $185 million IPO - Lead Left Bookrunner to Upstart’s $180 million IPO

2018 - 2019

  • Venture Capital

    2018 - 2019

    Early-stage venture firm focused on investing in minority and women founders in the United States

2016 - 2017

  • Global Business Development

    2016 - 2017

    Global Business Operations and Strategy focused on assessing, implementing, and tracking financial performance of Fintech and Driver partnerships and new products

2017 - 2017

  • Design Research

    2017 - 2017

    IDEO's research & design lab partnering with industries to ideate, prototype, and invest in emerging technology applications. Focus Areas: Blockchain, Marketplaces

2012 - 2015

  • Research Analyst

    2012 - 2015

    Data analysis, experimentation, research, and partnerships aimed at improving organizational operations for Google globally. Focus Areas: Behavioral Economics, Diversity Data operations and technology consultant for City of San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management through Google partnership with Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation