Amy LaMeyer (WXR Fund) on Investment Focus and Closing the Gender Gap in Venture Funding

Amy LaMeyer. Amy is the managing partner of WXR Fund, where she invests in early stage spatial computing and artificial intelligence companies with female leadership.

Amy spent the first half of her career at Akamai Technologies, which helped enable the early web to scale. There she led the diligence and integration of 20 deals worth more than $1.5 billion.

Now she’s fully immersed in AR and VR as an advisor and investor, and she was named one of the Top 30 people to Watch in Augmented Reality by Next Reality. Amy is also a lover of music and the author of the “Sound and AR” chapter in the book Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted With Data by Charlie Fink.

In this conversation, Amy shares her observations on demographics and trends after attending the recent YC demo day and other events, and she makes the case for and challenges facing female founded companies.

We talk about market trends, the venture fund, and she profiles the areas in which she’s most excited. She goes on to describe some of the founder traits she wants to see, including being an expert in the area where the startup is attempting to disrupt.

You can find all of the show notes at thearshow.com.