She had a lot of operations experience three years to be exact inside of a company.

And said, you know what?

I want to dabble in the VC world.

I like the risk reward profile there better than private equity.

Jumped into Vertex, which is part of a much larger organization.

She focuses really on United States, U.S.-based companies and has partners in other parts of the world.

Made some significant bets or other partners involved early at facebook they've made other

infrastructure bets or infrastructure optimization bets like cladera security perimeter x things like

that so exciting fun to be part of 150 million bucks is what they're deploying uh again writing

you know series a checks typically between one and 10 million bucks hello everyone my guest today is

eva coo she's an investor at Vertex Ventures,

an early stage venture fund focused on enterprise technology. She has over a decade of

experience in helping to build, scale, and advise growing technology companies. Most recently,

she led operations for Lux Valley, a venture-backed on-demand startup. Before that, she was an

investment banker at Goldman Sachs.

Eva, are you ready to take us to the top?

I am, let's do it.

They don't have to be careful on this.

I always get killed when I have what they call the dark side on the show.

Usually it's founders and folks, operators, but you're on the flip side, right?

Yeah, oh no.

You are an operator operator though, right? Tell me briefly. Was Lux kind of your only experience on the operation side?

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