Renee DiResta

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Vice President of Business Development at Haven

Venture Capital / Private Equity

I’ve worked for the government, in quantitative finance, and most recently, in VC. While the industries & missions have varied, the common thread is a love of aggregating incomplete information, analyzing it, then generating/executing a plan of action. As a trader, I valued derivative instruments (ie ETFs) when many underlying components weren’t trading. That process had to happen in seconds. In seed-stage VC, I identify market drivers and technological or societal trends, then use them to form investment opinions about very young companies. It’s slower, but in some ways more complex –less quantitative data, a longer feedback loop. Art + science. As the Principal at OATV, I work clo