Meredith Parsons

Operating Partner

Offline Ventures · Mill Valley, California, United States

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Offline Ventures is an early-stage venture fund and studio in pursuit of a world where technology lives in harmony with humanity. Operating Partner leading operations across investing, portfolio management, fund execution, and internal systems. I own investment execution, build the data infrastructure behind portfolio and LP reporting, support fundraising diligence, and partner with founders on high-leverage operational needs—while driving internal tooling that helps a lean team scale.

Investor

FOG Ventures

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FOG Ventures was created to invest and support innovative founders that are helping create toolbox 2.0 for the modern day operator. We’re backed by more than 800 of the world's top CEOs, COOs & CFOs at tech’s most prominent startups. We do not just invest in what we believe in — as active operators, we’re investing in products we actually love and use. Send amazing teams/products our way: www.fog.ventures / hello@fog.ventures

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Global Women in VC

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The world’s largest global community for women in venture capital to connect, collaborate, and create new opportunities.

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VIA: Venture. Influence. Ambition.

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Board President

Let's Talk Ops

Every high-performing venture fund has one thing in common: exceptional people driving results behind the scenes. VIA is the community built specifically for them. We're the strategists, builders, and problem-solvers making venture capital funds thrive—leading investor relations, marketing, talent, finance, platform, and operations across firms of every size and stage.

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Operators Guild

The Operators Guild is an exclusive, invitation-only network for the world’s foremost leaders in company building within high-growth and tech sectors. Spanning over 20 chapters globally—including SF, NY, LA, Austin, Denver, Toronto, Vancouver, Seattle, Chicago, Miami, London and more -- it serves as a collaborative hub for sharing best practices, solving common challenges, and fostering investment in the operational community.

Vp Strategy & Investor Relations

Hum Capital · San Francisco, California, United States

• Member of the executive team and strategic right hand to the CEO, driving cross-functional initiatives from strategy through execution. • Led investor relations and fundraising execution, including data room management, financial modeling coordination, investor communications, and fundraising choreography in partnership with the CEO. • Owned company-wide investor communications: led monthly investor calls, drafted quarterly updates, and served as primary point of contact for cap table management and investor engagement. • Planned and executed quarterly executive offsites to align leadership on near-term roadmap, long-term strategy, and supporting financial plans. • Led internal communications and operating cadence, including bi-weekly company All Hands for 60+ employees, improving clarity, alignment, and employee NPS over time. • Partnered with People and Finance leadership to implement scalable onboarding/offboarding, performance feedback systems, vendor management, and software lic…

Board Member

Bay Area Disc Association

Nonprofit organization dedicated to growing the sport of Ultimate for all ages and abilities.

Head of Operations, Enterprise Team

Point72 Ventures · San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for building systematic processes to help expand the team's enterprise network of buyers and experts in support of the portfolio and future investment theses • Led portfolio operations, internal reporting and analysis, team budgeting and accounting; worked closely with the investors on optimizing deal flow and investment best practices • Partnered directly with investors on portfolio support and investment decision processes

Head of Platform

Threshold Ventures · Menlo Park, CA

DFJ BECAME THRESHOLD VENTURES (2019) • Redesigned the firm’s “platform” (tools, methodologies, and external programs that guide the process from pre-investment to exit) • Collected and reported on data around the firm’s investment process, metrics, and goals, both for internal use and detailed reporting to the Limited Partners • Managed the firm’s networking ecosystem, working directly with portfolio companies on business development and facilitating connections and relationships for key sales introductions • Led adoption and implementation of software tools such as Affinity, Pitchbook, Crunchbase Pro, Slack and G-Suite to optimize investor mechanics and network strategies

Director of Business Operations

DFJ · Menlo Park, CA

• Brought renewed focus to the development and enhancement of resources, people, and programs, e.g., instituted and generated content for bi-monthly “All Hands” meetings, facilitated investment team off-sites, organized trainings for the administrative team • Leveled up outdated HR processes and policies to ensure the firm was exceeding industry standards for recruiting new and retaining existing employees; created comprehensive onboarding roadmaps for new hires and streamlined offboarding protocols • Maintained positive relationships with other VC operators to better inform decision making and provide insight into best practices of entrepreneurial and investor relations • Coordinated investment team on deal flow analysis including year-end internal reporting and weekly tracking of industry-wide funding announcements and exits; fully owned the investor CRM (both architecture and accuracy of data) • Organized industry and portfolio events, including curated, thematic dinners with invest…

Chief of Staff to Founding Partner

DFJ · Menlo Park, California

• Managed relationships with CEOs, prepared decks for speaking engagements, filtered and promoted incoming deal flow, provided background on upcoming meetings, ensured prep for press interviews and supervised inbox • Oversaw people and places, balancing personnel needs, managing interior design and construction projects for Menlo Park and San Francisco office locations • Responsible for hiring, training and managing admin staff (two receptionists and six executive assistants)