Naseem Sayani

I've spent 20+ years building businesses and backing the people who build them — first inside consulting and corporate venture, then on the investor side. I was one of the early team members at BCG Digital Ventures, where I helped establish the venture architecture practice and eventually became a partner, launching new businesses for large companies at startup speed. I later co-founded Emmeline Ventures, a seed-stage fund investing in women's health, financial services, and sustainability, which built a portfolio of roughly 2 dozen companies, including Alloy, LunaJoy, WealthMore, and The Beans. I have an MBA from NYU Stern and a BA in Business Economics from UCLA, but most of what I know about raising money, sizing a market, and surviving a bad quarter came from doing it. Today I invest through GCWC Capital in healthtech and fintech, specifically where founders are building intelligent infrastructure, and I advise across the ecosystem — as Director of the Innovator's Circle at Women's Health Access Matters, I lead a collaboration effort across fund managers investing in women's health to coordinate capital and pipelines to ensure early-stage growth and later-stage readiness. I host The Capital Flex, a podcast about what actually happens when female founders raise capital within systems that weren't built for them, and I write Constructing Capital, a Substack about how venture's underlying assumptions are breaking down. If you're preparing to raise, figuring out whether your company is a venture business at all, thinking through your cap table and ownership before a round, or building an angel portfolio or first fund, that's the conversation I'm best at — direct, specific, and without the pitch-deck theater.