She escaped the brutal civil war in Lebanon when she was a child. She had to hide in different bomb shelters together with her family. Moved to Canada with her mother and lived in a so-called "Arabic ghetto" neighborhood. "The kids there were so poor they couldn't get breakfast. " She says.

To build a better life she moved to Silicon Valley and worked as an engineer in a male-dominated industry.

The guest of the Verso Talk with Aytakin is Mariane Bekker.

Mariane Bekker is a tech executive with over a decade of experience in building high-performing engineering teams at leading startups like New Relic and Mindbody.

She is currently the Managing Partner at Founders Bay, a premier venture studio for AI startups in the Bay Area, where she connects a community of 45,000 founders and VCs through events, virtual workshops, and fundraising resources.

Also, Mariane runs Women Founders Bay, one of the largest communities of female tech entrepreneurs in the Bay Area, providing vital resources, mentorship, and networking opportunities to empower women founders.

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The Verso Talk podcast features successful immigrant leaders in INVESTMENT, STARTUPS, and FORTUNE 500 TECH corporations. These leaders share their unique journeys and untold stories and talk about money management, leadership, startups, and career growth.

🚀 Don't miss these expert insights—watch now and learn how to position your startup, business, and career for success!

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The guest speaker is Sunmeet Jolly, Managing Partner at Jolly VC, providing venture support to early-stage AI, SAAS & IOT startups.

The portfolio includes Posh.AI, Caspar.AI, DecileGroup.com, Lincode.AI, HeyPinnacle.com, Bizly.com, Virtuix.com and Questanalytics.com.

Sunmeet is an Angel Investor in 44 Technology Startups (38% IRR, 4.4X MOIC, 25 active, 5.2X MOIC from 19 exits/dissolved). Early-stage investments in Heliogen (IPO: Dec 2021), Knightscope (IPO: Jan 2022), Monogram Ortho (IPO: May 2023), Commerce.AI, Apptopia, Virzoom, CleanCapital, Quest Analytics, Virtuix, Vantage Robotics, StartEngine, AtomBeam, GoSun etc.

He spent over a decade working with multi-billion dollar software consulting firms in B2B sales and business development.

He traveled to 31 countries, 51 islands, and 11 cruises.

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The Verso Talk podcast features successful immigrant leaders in INVESTMENT, STARTUPS, and FORTUNE 500 TECH corporations.

These leaders share their unique journeys and untold stories and talk about money management, leadership, startups, and career growth.

🚀 Don't miss these expert insights—watch now and learn how to position your startup, business, and career for success!

🔔 Subscribe for more expert investment and fundraising tips! Find Verso Talk on Podcasts

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7uwGvLjylyL80vvDqIm8PG

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/verso-talk-with-aytakin/id1793461877

Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/d7f49868-74c9-4025-a48e-59a21f5af80b/verso-talk-with-aytakin

iHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1323-verso-talk-with-aytakin-262686366/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VersoTalkwithAytakin

Follow Verso Talk with Aytakin on Instagram for exclusive short clips and sneak peeks of interviews with successful immigrant investors. https://www.instagram.com/versotalkwithaytakin/

Follow Aytakin on LinkedIn for inspirational stories of successful immigrant leaders and changemakers:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aytakin-aliyeva-femigrants/

Subscribe to "Femigrants Connect", a bi-weekly newsletter to be informed about the elegant and unique events that I host to bring together a global community of diverse immigrant leaders in Silicon Valley, New York, and London: https://femigrants.com/subscribe-to-femigrants-connect/

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The guest speaker of the Verso Talk with Aytakin today is Subha Rajana, a Femigrant (female immigrant) from India.

She is a Venture Partner at 3i Partners and a Founding LP at How Women Invest Fund and MFV Partners.

As the former CEO of Biarca, a cloud security software development company, she developed a strong foundation in strategy, operations, and business development—the pillars of any successful venture.

Before that, she held leadership roles at global software firms like Vedams and SriTech, where she navigated complex business landscapes, scaled global operations, and built high-performing teams.

Beyond investing, she is a vocal advocate for bringing more women into VC, ensuring more capital flows to women-led startups, and driving real change in the investment landscape.

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The Verso Talk is a part of the Femigrants Foundation's project that aims to educate immigrant women on business and career growth, as well as bring the visibility on Femigrants' untold stories. Femigrants stands for female immigrants.

The Verso Talk podcast features successful immigrant leaders in INVESTMENT, STARTUPS, and FORTUNE 500 TECH corporations.

These leaders share their unique journeys and untold stories and talk about money management, leadership, startups, and career growth.

🚀 Don't miss these expert insights—watch now and learn how to position your startup, business, and career for success!

🔔 Subscribe for more expert investment and fundraising tips!

Find Verso Talk on Podcasts

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7uwGvLjylyL80vvDqIm8PG Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/verso-talk-with-aytakin/id1793461877

Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/d7f49868-74c9-4025-a48e-59a21f5af80b/verso-talk-with-aytakin

iHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1323-verso-talk-with-aytakin-262686366/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VersoTalkwithAytakin

Follow Verso Talk with Aytakin on Instagram for exclusive short clips and sneak peeks of interviews with successful immigrant investors. https://www.instagram.com/versotalkwithaytakin/

Follow me on LinkedIn for inspirational stories of successful immigrant leaders and changemakers:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aytakin-aliyeva-femigrants/

Subscribe to "Femigrants Connect", a bi-weekly newsletter to be informed about the elegant and unique events that I host to bring together a global community of diverse immigrant leaders in Silicon Valley, New York, and London: https://femigrants.com/subscribe-to-femigrants-connect/

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