Gillian Muessig Books

The Fundraising Strategy Playbook: An Entrepreneur's Guide To Pitching, Raising Venture Capital, and Financing a Startup

Changing Tides: Powerful Strategies for Female Founders

Speaker Lists Featuring Gillian Muessig

Inspiring Women in Leadership Positions

Female leaders are powerful agents of change. Whether they're advancing gender justice and gender equality, leading successful businesses, or furthering innovation in their fields, women as decision-makers at all levels are...

Podcast Hosts

Podcasts are rising in popularity. 20 percent of adults in the United States who are between the ages of 18 and 49 listen to podcasts at least once a month. These hosts have reached audiences with their discussions on...

Leading Female Futurists

The women speakers in this list are bringing fresh eyes and new perspectives to current and future trends within a wide range of industries. As business leaders, bestselling authors, technology experts, advocates, and...

Gender Equality Speakers

Gender equality is a fundamental human right and serves as the foundation for a sustainable and prosperous society. There has been progress in the fight for gender equality and women's rights over the past few decades, but...

Powerful Female Speakers in Traditionally Male-Dominated Industries

From professional athletes and business leaders to award-winning scientists and fearless adventurers, these influential women continue to blur the lines in traditionally gendered occupations. They are top female keynote...

Finance Speakers on the Future of Business

Using popular trends and delicate analyses to forecast the next best economic steps for industry leaders, these financial futurists and their predictions are invaluable to the business world. Ranging from executive-level...

Financial Inclusion & Equal Pay Advocates

Women and other marginalized groups - disproportionately Black, Indigenous, and people of color - continue to experience unequal pay and wealth gaps across most industries. The financial inclusion speakers and gender...

Leading CMOs, Digital Gurus & Marketing Strategists

Successful companies understand the importance of innovative and strategic marketing. Advertising, sales, promotions, and public relations are all essential elements of a marketing plan, and great marketing professionals and...

Future of Work: Top Speakers on Futurism and Innovation in the Workplace

As experts in technology, human resources, and leadership, the business speakers in this list know how trends and current events affect labor demands, business models, and more. After the pandemic greatly impacted businesses...

Browse All Keynote Speaker Lists »

FAQs on booking Gillian Muessig

Gillian Muessig Speaking Topics

• Keeping Your Head While Those Around You Lose Theirs: Positioning Capital for Success in the End Game

  Audiences: Corporate leaders and Private Equity (PE) investors: asset allocators for Private Family Offices, corporate funds, governments, banks, NGOs

  It is time to pay the piper. After 30+ months of battering from a global pandemic, coupled by trillions of dollars in expenditures to help buffer the impact for employees, SMBs, and entire industries such as travel and tourism, the bull is finally in retreat. The cost of capital is rising. The classic signals of >4% inflation and <4% unemployment rates are evident and investors are pulling capital from high risk investment structures such as VC Funds at breakneck speed. Economic storms are common. They have an impetus, a life cycle, elements of uncertainty and opportunity. What signals inside this particular downturn do we need to look for? Where can asset allocators strategically place capital to set it up for success as this storm transitions to its most important stage: the emergence of economic opportunities?

• Illuminating Success Factors for Early Stage Tech Companies

  Audiences: Entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, students or Early stage individual or corporate investors and asset allocators

  As a speaker, advisor, board member, and host of the decade-long podcast CEO coach and now VC Confidential, I have helped thousands of companies to launch, grow, pivot, and thrive. For founders and leaders of early stage tech companies, as well as for potential investors seeking to understand the angel / early stage investment landscape, I speak often about Wizards and Executors. The Wizard is the 'idea person' often a technologist. The Executor executes on the ideas of a Wizard and builds a company around her/him. One famous example would be Zuckerberg and Sandberg. In this context, I am an executor. I build and optimize the value of tech companies.

  • Of Wizards & Executors: the Assets and Attributes of Successful Entrepreneurs and Startup Companies
  • The Capital Stack: On Beyond Venture Equity! How to Capitalize Your Company at Every Stage
  • Powerful Boards of Directors: The Secret Sauce of Successful Enterprises

• Gender Lens Investing: The Power of Investing in Market Anomaly

  Conventional Venture Capital is anything but a meritocracy. The numbers are well known: Women receive 2% of venture capital; men receive 98%. At the Series A, women are awarded an average of 16% of the valuations awarded to men. Women raise 44% of the capital raised by their male colleagues over the deal. Women exit at the same rates as men, but do so about 12 months sooner on average. And when they exit, women have been returning an average of 35% higher ROI to their investors for more than a quarter of a century! THAT. IS. NOT. A ROUNDING FIGURE!

Gillian Muessig Speaker Videos

• Gillian Muessig and Anne Kennedy Webinar

  

  Join us for a conversation with Gillian Muessig and Anne F. Kennedy, co-founders of the Sybilla Masters Fund, a women-led gender lens venture capital fund investing in better ways to live and work...
  Celebrate Female Founders at Startup Grind Seattle

  

  Gillian Muessig CEO Outlines Ventures and Managing Director of The Masters Fund, a global gender-lens venture capital fund based in Seattle, WA. An active entrepreneur, Gillian cofounded both Moz...
• Gillian Muessig of Sybilla Masters Fund: Reversing Climate Change

  

  Gillian joins Ross, Christophe, and Paul to advise the Nori team around making the business case for carbon removal. She shares her own entrepreneurial journey and the most important qualities of a...
  SAC XI - Keynote Speaker: Gillian Muessig

  

  Seattle Angel Conference XI – Episode 2 of 12 Bob Crimmins, the emcee of the eleventh Seattle Angel Conference, introduces the Keynote Speaker, Gillian Muessig; she is the Co-founder of MOZ, COO...

Gillian Muessig News

• Gillian Muessig unveils new venture fund to back women-led startups

  Muessig’s new fund, the Sybilla Masters Fund, focuses on funding companies that have at least one woman on the founding team or C-suite.

• ‘Startup whisperer’ Gillian Muessig shares tips for scoring VC while juggling family life

  Gillian Muessig seems to have acquired more than one life-time’s worth of connections, venture capital experience and insights into how to help women — and really anyone else — succeed in business, juggling family obligations and entrepreneurial endeavors. Her resume includes such skills as “startup whisperer” and “product visionary.”