Nammy Vedire is the Head of Portfolio Success at Alloy Partners. She has spent her career as an operator and builder alongside early-stage founders. Nammy started as a Venture Creation Consultant at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, where she worked with more than 50 student, faculty, and alumni-led startups. She then served as Associate Director of the Center for Deliberate Innovation at Georgia Tech, running the Flashpoint@GT program that taught founders and corporate innovation teams to recognize and supersede the cognitive biases that cause new ventures to fail. From there, she built the go-to-market program at Engage, a venture fund backed by 15 large Atlanta corporations, including Coca-Cola, Delta, Home Depot, and UPS, that matched seed-to-Series-A startups with corporate customers. Most recently, Nammy was COO at Metaimpact, a company that helps enterprises build networks where stakeholders collaborate around shared initiatives.

Nammy has lived the terror and euphoria of building. She knows what it feels like in the trenches, and she knows how to connect founders to the customers and capital that move a company forward. What drives her is a simple truth: startups are dead by default. Almost everything in the world, even indirectly, is designed to kill new ideas and new ways of working. That sense of everyday rebellion, and the chance to work alongside founders who give their all to bring something new into the world, is what motivates her every day.

Nammy was part of the first class to ever graduate from her undergraduate college. With no infrastructure, legacy, upperclassmen, or alumni to rely on, she learned to build from nothing. Looking back, that is where the seeds of her entrepreneurial spirit were first sown.