Vanessa Larco

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States17 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in venture capital and strategic guidance.
Promotes diversity and inclusion in tech.
Led successful product management initiatives.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Venture Capital expert with a strong background in SaaS and Gaming industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Venture CapitalStrategic GuidanceProduct ManagementAgile MethodologiesProduct DevelopmentUser Testing

Other Skills

StartupsEarly-Stage StartupsUser InterfaceSoftware DesignUsabilityHuman Computer InteractionUser ExperienceAgile Project ManagementScrumSoftware Project ManagementMobile ApplicationsSoftware DevelopmentUsability TestingMobile DevicesManagement

About

I'm currently building something new! If you're an early stage, US-based founder, building a software company, focused on B2C or B2B2C, reach out! I am formerly Partner at NEA, one of the world’s largest venture capital firms. My expertise lies in market analysis, product-market fit assessment, and providing strategic guidance to founders and management teams. I’m dedicated to promoting diversity in VC and championing inclusive teams and leaders. As a member of various equality-driven groups, I strive to foster real progress within the tech space, so we can create a more equitable and prosperous future for all.

Experience

17 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 1 mo

Current Experience

New enterprise associates (nea)

2 roles

Board Partner

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Partner

Oct 2016 – Mar 2025 · 8 yrs 5 mos

Lead Seed, Series A and Series B investments in B2C and B2B companies. Companies I work with:
EvidentID (board)
Mejuri (board)
Cleo (board)
Rocket.Chat (board)
Assembled (board)
Kindred (board)
Evernow (board)
Rewind.ai (investor)
Robinhood (board observer)
Safebase (board observer)
Instabase (board observer)
Granica AI (board observer)
Forethought.ai (board observer)
Orby.ai (board observer)
Greenlight Financial (Seed)
Lily AI (Seed)

Something_new

Builder

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Box

Director of Product Management - Mobile & Web

Feb 2014 – Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Lead a team of Product Managers who support 40+ engineers on Box’s flagship web and mobile products.
(fka split the monolith project)
Established company-wide metrics for measuring the success of all products.
Introduced wide scale A/B testing across our entire user base by creating new go to market processes and building new internal tools that reduced complexity around testing.
Developed the Box mobile security solution that attracted new key partners and large customers.
Launched the new Box Mobile SDKs, which drove a 22% increase in registered developers and announced the new products in the BoxDev keynote 2015.
Founded, developed and oversaw the Associate Product Manager program including designing the curriculum and interview processes to create a new pipeline and development track for junior talent.

Twilio inc.

Product Strategy

Aug 2013 – Feb 2014 · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Worked on the Voice product and the Customer Support experience.

Funloop, inc.

Co-Founder - Product

Aug 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Designed and launched several iOS games for children reaching top positions in the Educational Kids Game chart.
Designed and conducted all user testing, managed project timelines, budgets, and quality testing.
Recruited all employees including engineers, artists and animators.
Managed all social media and customer outreach.

Playdom

Senior Product Lead

Jan 2011 – Aug 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos · Palo Alto, CA

Drove tens of millions of dollars in revenue within 18 months by designing and launching two Facebook games.
Recruited and managed cross-functional teams of engineers, artists and designers with 0% turnover rate.
Helped build and run one of the most profitable studios at Disney Social Games with A/B testing as the core for all feature releases.
Provided guidance for other studios on optimizing revenue and building products on shorter development cycles.
Created product roadmap strategies, product development process and employee development programs that were rolled out companywide.

Microsoft

2 roles

Program Manager, XBOX Kinect

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr

Led the design, the development and shipped the end to end speech experience for the Kinect platform.
Managed key partner relationships resulting in a consistent speech design across all of the Kinect Microsoft applications.
Designed a light weight grammar tuning process which enabled partners to implement speech recognition at a fraction of the cost.