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To Impress This VC, Deliver on What You Promise

Why this VC says "yes."
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Jennifer Fonstad is the rarest of finds in Silicon Valley: cofounder of a woman-run venture capital fund. By the time she launched in 2014, with partner Theresia Gouw, Fonstad had already made the Midas list, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and closed a deal while in labor. As an investor, she avoids divas at all costs, and don’t expect her to write a check and then disappear; makes her tick. Her primary focus, digital health and mobility businesses preparing to be huge. 

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