Perhaps it’s the end of an era now that Sheryl Sandberg announced she will leave Meta. However, to Kelly Graziadei and Joanna Lee Shevelenko, general partners at f7 Ventures, an early-stage venture firm, they are carrying forward in their new endeavor the influence Sandberg had on them during their time at Facebook.
All of f7 Ventures’ initial seven founders are long-time operators who met each other at Facebook and started the firm over three years ago.
“In the early days, there weren’t that many female leaders at Facebook,” Graziadei said. “And so fast-forward years later, we came together.”
They wanted to take their years of operating experience and roll up their sleeves to provide that value-add to early-stage founders, particularly women and other underrepresented individu …
