Awards & Recognition
★Entrepreneur of the Year by Red Herring magazine (1997)
★2017 Fearless Leader award from WomenOnBoards
Notable Facts
→First investor and founding board member of Salesforce (served from inception to post-IPO)
→Former General Partner at US Venture Partners (8 years), not Unilever Ventures
→Serial entrepreneur who founded CyberCash (IPO), MarketPay, and UUnet
→Co-founder and Executive Chair of Informed.IQ (AI document analysis company)
→Founder of Broadway Angels (female angel investor group)
→Pioneer in commercialization of the Internet and e-commerce infrastructure
→Early investor in 30+ companies including theRealReal, PicsArt, Zuora, and others
→Board member of SoFi, Smartsheet, and Zuora
→Stanford University graduate (Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering)
→500+ LinkedIn connections, 2,133 Twitter followers
→Turkish immigrant who came to US in 1976 with $43