M13 Investing Partner Anna Barber on Lessons from Her Journey, the First Spark That Got Her into Venture, and Investment Trends to Keep an Eye On | Seed to Harvest Ep60

Today, I'm joined by Anna Barber, Investing Partner at M13, which is an LA based Series A venture fund focused on investing in the future of consumer technology. Understanding the future of consumer behavior is M13’s obsession, and it is why their funds have demonstrated repeatable success. After making early investments in direct-to-consumer brands (M13 participated in seed and Series A of 15 $1B companies), today M13 invests in the enabling technologies that power the future of work, health, commerce, and money. Anna previously worked at McKinsey & Co as a Strategy Consultant and VP Product at Petstore.com.

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00:00 Welcome to Seed To Harvest: Anna Barber
04:35 changing investing styles
09:39 investing in Max Retail
14:52 one person who really influenced Anna
15:34 Women are an asset class
19:47 taking the stage at Techstars LA

Show notes:
Anna Barber | https://twitter.com/annawbarber?lang=en

M13 | https://m13.co/

McKinsey | https://www.mckinsey.com/

Petstore.com | https://petstore.com/

Techstars | https://www.techstars.com/

Fly By Jing | https://flybyjing.com/

Max Retail | https://www.maxretail.com/

Wee Care | https://weecare.co/childcare-benefits

Jerry Colonna | https://twitter.com/jerrycolonna?lang=en

Karl Alomar | https://www.linkedin.com/in/karl-alomar-0516a219/