Fireside Chat with Sydney Paige Thomas, Symphonic Capital
Join us for our next fireside chat featuring Sydney Paige Thomas, Symphonic Capital
About Sydney Paige Thomas
Sydney is the Founder and General Partner of Symphonic Capital – a venture capital firm that invests in companies closing access gaps around health and wealth for overlooked communities.
Symphonic Capital’s investment thesis follows Sydney’s expertise. She has built expertise in this thesis through her investing and policy work over the past two decades. Her investing strategy has yielded companies valued at $100M+.
Sydney is a proven fund builder and investor. Prior to launching Symphonic, she joined one of Silicon Valley’s first Pre-Seed funds and scaled it from a Solo Operating GP with 10 investments to a 3-person team with 400+ investments and $200M+ in AUM.
Prior to her work in tech, she served in the Bloomberg Administration in NYC. Over the course of her tenure, she drafted federal legislation, negotiated a multi-million dollar contract, and received a full-ride scholarship to her business school of choice.
She serves on the Board of Trustees Oakland Museum of California – and art museum dedicated to justice and beauty in the heart of Oakland, a graduate of the prestigious Kauffman Fellows Program and a Venture Partner at The House Fund – a $100M+ Fund created to invest in UC Berkeley backed startups. She is also the founder of the Black Women in VC List – a list she started that sparked change in the Venture Capital ecosystem when she realized she was often the only Black woman in these spaces.
Sydney graduated from University of California Berkeley with her MBA and Duke University with her BA.
This fireside chat will be between Sydney Paige Thomas and Leslie Feinzaig, founder and Managing Director of Graham & Walker. In 2017, she founded the Female Founders Alliance, the largest and most engaged community of its kind in America, and its popular founder programs, dubbed “the YC for Female Founders” by Techcrunch. Leslie is a contributing writer at Fortune Magazine, Fast Company and Techcrunch. She was named one of Forbes Magazine's Most Powerful Women from Central America, Worth Magazine’s Worthy 100, Puget Sound Business Journal 40 Under 40, and Seattle Magazine's Most Influential People. Born and raised in Costa Rica, Leslie moved to the US to attend Harvard Business School on a full scholarship. She now lives in Seattle with her husband and two young daughters
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