She Ventures Forward

Only 2 percent of venture capital funding goes to female founders. These founders aren't household names like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, or Bill Gates, but yet they've managed to build remarkable companies and raise venture funding. Welcome to She Ventures Forward, the podcast where we dive deep into the inspiring stories of trailblazing women who secure venture capital funding to build impactful companies and explore the challenges they faced along the way

She Ventures Forward is a business podcast hosted by Natalie Abboud, with 15 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Natalie Abboud hosts She Ventures Forward, a business show with 15 episodes published.

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  The Acquisition Playbook: Claudia Laurie on Building Prive and Selling Smart

  Mar 18, 202638 minS0

  <p>Claudia Laurie spent two and a half years at Uber mastering the science behind pricing, incentives, and subscriptions before leaving to build Prive, a subscription billing platform for D2C brands. Four years later, she had raised $5M, processed half a billion dollars in GMV, and successfully exited through an acquisition. In this episode, Claudia breaks down how she and her co-founder pivoted from their original idea after customer feedback, built a sales motion from scratch, and fundraised pre-product as first-time founders. What does it actually feel like to go from LOI to close? How do you evaluate competing...

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  What Precision Medicine Has Been Missing: Kelly Lacob on Building Xella Health

  Mar 12, 202635 minS0

  <p>In this episode of She Ventures Forward, Natalie sits down with Kelly Lacob, CEO and co-founder of Xella Health, the first precision healthcare platform built specifically for women..</p><p>Kelly opens up about the real mechanics behind her $3.7M pre-seed raise: why going straight to institutional investors was a costly mistake, how she built a proof of concept with almost no money, what it took to grow a 10,000-person waitlist before launch, and the bold move of setting her own terms when no one wanted to lead.</p>

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  Building Human-Centered Education in an AI World with Audrey Wisch of Curious Cardinals

  Feb 2, 202639 minS0

  <p>In this episode of She Ventures Forward, Natalie sits down with Audrey Wisch, founder and CEO of Curious Cardinals, a personalized learning platform helping students discover their purpose through mentorship.</p><p><br></p><p>Audrey shares how Curious Cardinals began as a passion project while she was a student at Stanford and evolved into a venture-backed company serving thousands of students with a network of hundreds of mentors. She walks through her decision to pause her studies, build full time, and raise venture capital from early customers who deeply believed in the product.</p><p><br></p><p>...

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  Reinventing Marketing Through Regenerative AI: Zinnie Zhang on Building Enttor

  Oct 10, 202521 minS0

  <p>Zinnie Zhang joins She Ventures Forward to share how she’s building Enttor, an AI marketing platform helping enterprise teams scale authentic social media engagement. From identifying gaps in marketing software to raising pre-seed funding , Zinnie’s story is inspiring in turning frustration into innovation.</p>

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  How Market Experiments Beat Market Research: Kate O’Keeffe, CEO of Heat Seeker AI

  May 12, 202530 minS0

  <p>Kate O'Keefe wants to end the era of building products nobody wants. In this episode, the Heat Seeker AI founder and former BCG and Cisco exec shares how market experiments, not surveys, are the key to finding product-market fit—and why marketers everywhere are rethinking their playbook.</p><p><br></p>

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