Lauren Bigelow Ph.D

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Biography

Dr. Lauren Bigelow serves as Managing Partner at Dipalo Ventures. She served as Chairman of the Advisory Board at BELLE Impact Fund. Previously, she served as a Board Member at New Enterprise Forum. She has served as the CEO of the Growth Capital Network (GCN) since 2010. She has spent 15 years in the innovation and technology space where she has an exceptional professional network of senior executives and emerging technologies as well as an expansive network of venture, private equity, and corporate investors targeting early to mid-stage technology. She brings a strategic perspective with exceptional execution skills on all organizational levels. Prior to GCN and before its '09 acquisition by Bloomberg, she was the North American Commercial Director for New Energy Finance, the leading independent provider of information and research to investors in the clean energy markets. From 2004 - 2008, she was the Managing Director of the Cleantech Group where she oversaw the firm's technology and entrepreneur pipelines. Working directly with over two hundred early-stage CEOs, more than $1.4 billion was raised by presenting companies. She is currently on the Advisory Board of the Erb Institute, the Zell Lurie Fund, and Belle Capital Michigan as well as the board of the Energy Innovation Business Council. She is a lecturer at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. She has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan and an M.A. and Ph.D. both from Northwestern University. She also serves as an Advisor at PocketNest.