Lindsay Stencel JD

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Biography

Ms. Lindsay Stencel serves as Co-Founder at Bold Ventures. Ms. Stencel is a Co-Founder & serves as Chief Legal Counsel at W Fund. Ms. Stencel serves as a Partner at NCT Ventures. She also served as Primary General Counsel at Launch NY. She serves as an Advisor at Accelerating Angels. She serves as a Partner at Thompson Hine. She is a seasoned dealmaker and true venture fund operator, having managed six venture funds during her career. In negotiating and structuring over 1000+ deals in her VC tenure, she now works to ensure that all W Fund deals are tracking to market standards to put the W Fund in the best possible position to have influence over the portfolio companies' progress and to permit strong participation in future investment rounds. As a licensed attorney in multiple states, she began her venture career on the pure deal side working in big law in New York. After she obtained her MBA from Ohio State University, she shifted to a true venture role in 2008 when she joined NCT Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based out of Columbus, OH. There she worked her way up the ranks from associate and in-house counsel, to become one of the managing partners and chief legal counsel, making her one of the first female venture capital partners in the State of Ohio. There she worked with the firm to structure 100s of transactions and proudly assisted the firm in being the top-performing venture firm in the Midwest for its vintage years (2008 and 2013, respectively). She served as General Counsel at LOUD Capital.