Arise Ventures
Shari Wenker is an accomplished marketing and communications professional with extensive experience across various leadership roles. Currently serving as a Strategic Advisor at StrongShari's Ventures since October 2022, Shari previously held the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at DXC Technology from April 2020 to June 2021. Shari's tenure at Accenture spanned from 1995 to 2020, where roles included Managing Director for multiple divisions in Marketing & Communications. Prior to Accenture, Shari was a Senior Vice President at Golin Harris Communications, managing key accounts such as Chrysler Corporation. Additionally, Shari served as Senior Director in the Office of the Governor of California under Governor George Deukmejian, focusing on public and constituent affairs. Shari's educational background includes studies at UCLA and California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.
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Arise Ventures
Arise Ventures is the leading global early stage tech fund. Arise is the third global fund launched following the success of Saha Fund and Tholons Capital. Saha Fund was the first global gender lens women entrepreneurship venture capital fund, investing in women led/focused technology companies. We are taking our legacy forward and building the largest platform for early stage tech companies via our fund, accelerator and community. We are building an amazing community and ecosystem of women founders as well with our platform for women entrepreneurs at StrongHer. We understand the importance of operational know how to scale early stage companies and bring our strong network and investment expertise to catalyze that. Our portfolio has a focused and curated pipeline of deals built with expert advisors who bring relevant leadership industry expertise and deep relationships with the innovation ecosystem. With over 50+ startup investments across three funds with unicorns like Licious, Uniphore, Fitternity CultFit, Phenom. We are investing across Enterprise SaaS, Gen AI, Consumer Brands and Consumer Tech. Write to us at hello@ariseventures.vc