Erica Minnihan

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Ms. Erica Minnihan is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Reign Ventures. She serves as Board Member and Advisor at Clearbrief. She also serves as Venture Partner at WOCstar Fund. She serves as an Advisor at AppeProPo. She served as the Managing Director, Community at DreamIt Ventures focusing on Community Development in the New York City region. She is also an Angel Investor. DreamIt Ventures runs programs in Austin, Baltimore, New York City, Philadelphia and Tel Aviv. In the last 5 years, DreamIt has helped 127 companies and over 400 entrepreneurs turn their ideas into business. She is also Managing Partner of seed-stage investment fund Fortuna Ventures, which invests in technology-enabled early-stage companies. Prior to her work with DreamIt, she was the Executive Director and a founder of STAR Angel Network, a membership organization for professional athletes and celebrities making investments in high growth potential, early-stage private companies. She was also the first Executive Director of Golden Seeds, a national early-stage investor group, where she managed deal sourcing and screening, due diligence, and investment processes for the group. Prior to joining Golden Seeds, she has held a variety of roles in the Investment Banking sector, working for firms including Cantor Fitzgerald, Citigroup and Credit Suisse. She herself is an entrepreneur, having founded a beverage company that produces products for mothers focused on healthy lifestyles in 2009 which was subsequently sold to a consumer and media investment group. She has also worked with a variety of early-stage and start-up companies providing expertise as a consultant for equity fundraising and general capital strategy. In addition, she has been a regular on-air contributor to MSNBC's "Your Business" and CNBC's "Crowd Rules" as a small business expert. She received her MBA in finance and real estate with honors from Columbia University and a BA in Business Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles. She served as an Advisor at Acorn.