Vanessa Larco

Partner at New Enterprise Associates

Vanessa Larco joined NEA as a Partner in 2016 and focuses on enterprise SaaS and consumer investing. She is passionate about well-designed products and services that enable people to be more productive and fulfilled at work and at home. Vanessa has led investments in Cleo, Rocket.Chat, Mejuri, EvidentID, Greenlight Card, Feather, and Lily AI. She is also a board observer at Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD), Willow Pump, Forethought AI and OmniSci.

Prior to joining NEA, she was the Director of Product Management at Box (NYSE: BOX) where she worked on building the next generation of productivity apps across web and mobile. Her passion for design and analytics stems from her experience in the gaming industry, which includes leading the Speech Recognition Experience team at Xbox Kinect v1, and building a top grossing gaming studio at Disney Social.

Vanessa holds a BS in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Work style

How I prefer to work

Remote & Office

Afternoon

Mostly in a team

Qualities I value in my colleagues

  • Ownership
  • honesty
  • work ethic
  • team spirit
  • self-motivation

My communication style

  • Casual
  • direct
  • transparent
  • genuine
  • open

Timeline

  • Partner

    October, 2016 - present

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