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Genevieve LeMarchal
Managing Partner at Suncoast Ventures
Genevieve LeMarchal is the Managing Partner of Suncoast Ventures which backs resilient early stage healthcare tech, digital health and medical device founders. Prior to Suncoast she launched and ran Expert Dojo’s healthcare program and ran 3 full cohorts of health tech and medtech companies, becoming one of the most prolific early stage vc investors in Southern California (Crunchbase, 2022) and winner of the 2022 Biocom Lifescience Catalyst Award. She is passionate about entrepreneurs, and advising an mentoring founders. She loves to innovate financial models and find better ways to structure and fund companies and do deals.
She previously served as Partner at a science focused advisory and fund in formation, was a General Partner at a small Oregon-based VC Fund, and she is co-founder of the Pacific NW based non-profit organization, XXcelerate. She is the host of the AdVentureous Podcast and often writes and delivers talks, keynotes and training to entrepreneurs and investors about venture capital and entrepreneurship, impact and equity investing and more.
She is a Pacific Northwest native and a new resident to the East Bay area and now resides in Walnut Creek.