Emmalyn Shaw

Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Flourish Ventures · Joined 2019

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Biography

Emmalyn Shaw is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Flourish Ventures, where she leads the firm's US investing. Before Flourish she was a Partner at Omidyar Network, co-managing its Financial Inclusion investment team. She spent more than eight years as a Partner at Oak Investment Partners, where Flourish says she deployed over $200 million into technology companies, and she previously invested at VantagePoint Partners and at the Barksdale Group, the early-stage firm led by former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale. She began her career as an investment banker in Morgan Stanley's technology group in the 1990s and worked as a product manager at MSCI Barra. Flourish lists her current investments including Brico, Brigit, Chime, Clerkie, CurbWaste, EarnUp, Jetty, Kin, Mantl, Propel, Skipify, Tesouro, TrueBiz and Unit.

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Notable Investments

Chime CHYMBrigitKinPropelJettyMantlEarnUpUnit

Career Timeline

2019
Co-founded Flourish Ventures when Omidyar Network spun out its fintech investment arm; TechCrunch described her as founding managing partner overseeing the US portfolio

Sources & References

Flourish Ventures - Emmalyn Shaw ↗TechCrunch - Omidyar Network spins out its fintech investment arm as Flourish ↗