Tricia Black is the founder and general partner of Amplifyher Ventures. See sector focus and contact routes.
Tricia Black is the founder and general partner of Amplifyher Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm she launched in 2018 after serving as Facebook’s first VP of Sales and seventh employee. Her investment thesis focuses on early-stage startups—specifically pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds—with women in executive leadership or C-suite positions, targeting sectors like consumer commerce, healthcare, and connectivity across the United States. The firm typically deploys initial checks between $100,000 and $500,000, with an average historical check size of $1.7 million, and often acts as a lead investor in these rounds. Notable portfolio companies include Summersalt, The Skimm, Hill House Home, Copper Cow Coffee, and Pano AI, with successful exits from Solstice and Toucan. Black’s distinctive point of view centers on her mission to increase female representation in leadership by backing women entrepreneurs who can generate “flywheel effects” of growth, drawing on her zero-to-one commercialization experience at Facebook. She sits on the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard Kennedy School and has invested in female founders for over a dec
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