The G&T Sessions Chenoa Farnsworth, CEO Blue Startups, Creating Tech value in Startup Paradise
Chenoa Farnsworth is the managing partner of Blue Startups, a top 20 U.S. Accelerator (Techcrunch), based in Honolulu, Hawaii.
To date, Blue Startups has invested in 110 companies which have gone on to raise $500 million in venture capital. She also manages the Hawaii Angels investment network, which has invested over $60 million in over 100 startup companies. In 2010 she founded Hi Impact, a Hawaii-based impact investment organization which led to the establishment of the Impact HUB Honolulu in 2012, a co-working space dedicated to social entrepreneurs. In 2006, she co-founded Kolohala Ventures, a Hawai‘i-based venture capital firm that invested $50 million into Hawai‘i-based technology start-ups. Prior to that she provided strategy development and business planning consultation for start-up companies and high-growth businesses through her company Farnsworth Consulting. Farnsworth has served the community as chair of the Women’s Fund of Hawai‘i, director of the Hawaii Venture Capital Association, director of the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Hawaii, director of the Impact HUB Honolulu, and judge for the University of Hawai‘i business plan competition. Farnsworth earned a BA in political science from the University of California at Santa Cruz and an executive MBA from the University of Hawai‘i. Amazing episode with Chenoa, her business partner is Henk Rogers, who Founded Tetris and so we discuss the recent Apple TV Film called Tetris besides Chenoa sharing some absolute golden nuggets for Startup Founders. Enjoy !
Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chenoafarnsworth/