Betsy is a venture-backed founder and operator turned investor with over two decades of experience. She is the Founding Partner at Velveteen Ventures investing in children and planet for the next seven generations. She is the first Native American - Turtle Mountain Chippewa - to raise a Series A (over $20M). Betsy serves on the Tufts Innovation Council and she has partnered with Michelle Obama on her Veggies Early & Often movement. In addition to her efforts to propel food equity, she was chosen by the Obama administration to serve as an entrepreneurial ambassador on behalf of the US Embassy to other countries. She has spoken at Google, CES, World Economic Forum, Grace Hopper, TEDx, Food is Medicine Global Summit and served as a judge at the MIT Startup Competition. She has been honored with Entrepreneur's 100 Women of Impact driving real change in business and culture, Chief’s Top 50 Execs in the New Era of Leadership, Cosmopolitan’s New C-Suite 2024 and Forbes 30 under 30.Betsy is an investment partner at XFactor Ventures, one of the most active venture investors in companies founded by women with three funds and a portfolio of over 100 companies. Betsy is also a partner at LongJump, a Chicago based, founder-led fund focussed on underrepresented founders and has over 40 investments. Betsy currently serves on four boards.Betsy is a three time founder of two multi-million dollar brands and a non-profit. She is the co-founder of Tiny Organics that she’d built for her son growing it from $0-13M+ revenue in the first two years. Prior to that she was the founder of pet wearables brand WonderWoof that she’d built for her dog. WonderWoof made Oprah's Favorite Things list and launched at Bloomingdales, Harrods, Colette, Best Buy, Urban Outfitters and every Petco. Her products have been featured in Vogue, Wired, Good Housekeeping, Wall Street Journal, Tech Crunch, among others. Prior Betsy built Mind Candy in London alongside founder Michael Acton Smith of the meditation app Calm. In her time there, Moshi Monsters reached over 100M users online. Betsy began her career inventing toys for Mattel and Hasbro developing product lines for Polly Pocket, UNO and Star Wars.She is also the co-founder of Natives Rising, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing Indigenous representation in tech and entrepreneurship. Natives Rising is one of the largest communities of Indigenous technologists and Indigenous Founders with members representing over two hundred tribes.Betsy is determined to back other founders with big ideas that are shaping future generations.