Vanessa Larco

Former Partner at Premise Ventures

Speaker

Vanessa Larco co-founded Premise, a modern VC firm focused on Consumer Tech (B2C) and Consumer Enablement Tech (B2B2C) in early 2025. She is focused on backing technical founders with an eye for consumer behavior change at the pre-seed and seed stages.

Prior to starting Premise, Vanessa was a Senior Partner at NEA from 2016 to 2025 where she focused on Enterprise SaaS and Consumer Internet investing. Vanessa has led investments in Kindred, Mejuri, Assembled, Greenlight, and others. She was also a board observer at Robinhood from 2017 through the IPO in 2021.

Prior to NEA, she was the Director of Product Management at Box (NYSE: BOX). Her passion for design and analytics stems from her experience in gaming, which includes leading the Speech Recognition Experience team at Xbox Kinect, and building a top grossing gaming studio at Disney Social/Playdom.

Vanessa holds a BS in Computer Science from the Georgia Tech.