ABOUT
Anne
Passionate About helping you BUILD YOUR DREAM BUSINESS and find the right FUNDING OPTION for you
Nothing makes me happier than seeing others succeed and excel in living and building their dreams. That's one of the reasons why I founded the GUILD and teach entrepreneurship. I support ambitious, smart and honest entrepreneurs and leaders with ideas and innovation, mentorship and talent, resources and people.
Let's not forget the champagne and make this fun!
ABOUT ANNE
Anne Cocquyt is a serial entrepreneur with a great passion for new ideas and helping people achieve their career goals and launch their dream businesses. Anne used to work for Fortune 500 companies in senior roles in innovation, oversaw international multi-million dollar projects in IT and switched multiple times in her career between corporate roles and entrepreneurial endeavors, small businesses and non-profit organizations. She mentored rapid prototyping classes at the University of San Francisco, business model innovation at California College of the Arts, startups at Singularity University and is a lead mentor at the German Accelerator and Founder Institute, she's on the advisory board of digital health startups, a fund and a change maker community. Anne also invested in a small product startup and sold the company. She invests in consumer product startups, social enterprises and clean tech. She is the founder of the GUILD, the global AI-powered education hub for entrepreneurs.
Some facts about anne
Leader
Anne ...
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Launched two non-profit organizations in Switzerland and the US
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Built and exited a consumer product startup in 2015
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Ran Genentech’s first startup and data competition to prevent cervical cancer in 2016
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Piloted deep learning algorithms with a startup to predict lung cancer in CT scans
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Raised funding for the GUILD and launched the startup in 2017, the first women’s networking platform powered by AI and launched inaugural unconference for female innovators and investors
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Executed Women in Product’s 1,800 women’s conference in 2018 and secured +$2.3M in funding from partners like Google, Facebook, PayPal, Intuit, LinkedIn, Walmart Labs, Twitter, Asana, Adobe, startups and VC firms
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Presented Women In Product’s first D&I Advocacy study at the WEF in 2019
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Launched the GUILD Academy and helped 150+ entrepreneurs launch their businesses and raise funding
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Acquired a startup
Mentor and Advisor
​Anne ...
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Mentors students at universities (USF, Stanford, CAA)
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Mentors startups at the German Accelerator
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Mentored startups at the accelerator program at Singularity University
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Founder Institute Mentor
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Advises digital health startups
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Is on the advisory board of the How Women Invest Fund
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Anne was on the Change Catalyst advisory board to enable other change agents during their inception year
Author
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Dare to Launch - Mini MBA for first-time entrepreneurs - No student loans required (coming in 2021)
