"I don't care if you're desperate," Bernadette
Butler, CEO and Founder of Storytap, stressed in a recent session
of Osler's Women in Emerging and High Growth Companies
Leadership webinar series. "You cannot sacrifice fit in
fundraising."
Bernadette and Maria Pacella, Managing Partner of Pender
Ventures, reflected on their career journeys, some difficult
lessons they've learned along the wayand how the fundraising
landscape and process are changing in the webinar hosted by Osler
partner Laura Webb.
Early in Maria's time in the venture capital world, a mentor
demonstrated the importance of humility while working with
companies, investing in a people-first approach at a time when that
wasn't necessarily common. From that experience, she learned
the value of balancing perspectives and finding out what it's
like to be in other people's shoes, without sacrificing the
discipline required to make hard decisions as an investor.
