natalie riso
Raise @ Mercury
Startup & VC Marketing, Operations, and Fundraising
Climatebase Cohort 6 Fellow
Personal Brand Consultant
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Events
I’ve spoken and hosted 50+ events on startups, VC, content marketing, & personal branding.
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Venture Capital
I often take on side projects with VCs around content, operations, events, and deal flow.
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Consulting
Looking to level up your personal brand?
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ClimateTech
I've been helping ClimateTech founders get access to funding, perks, and more.
how I got here
In 2015, I began writing on LinkedIn. I covered the things dearest to me at the time: women in STEM, startups, education, and media. To break through the noise online, I brought light to subjects like the mental health crisis among startup founders and the lack of representation of women in tech companies.
Fast forward a few years, and I grew a following from my writing, graduating as the most followed student in the world on Linkedin in 2018.
After college, I expanded my work outside of writing and personal brand consulting to build an event series around startups and mental health. I subsequently joined 500 Global (formerly 500 Startups) to help with their content marketing and marketing partnerships. I co-led 500’s first-ever virtual Demo Day, advised startups on GTM strategy, launched 500 female founders’ hub and Black founders’ hubs, and led many of the firm’s data reports and content efforts for LPs, co-investors, and founders.
In 2023, I moved to Mercury to help build out their Raise program.
Today, I spend most of my time building founder community and mentorship at Mercury. On the side, I help out VCs and startups with project-based work and am currently working on ClimateTech projects as part of my Climatebase Fellowship.
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