Iynna Halilou
General Partner at The MBA Fund
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Adjunct Professor
2025 - Current
Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital
Adjunct Lecturer
2024
Introduction to Venture Capital Finance
General Partner
2021
The MBA Fund backs pre-seed and seed-stage companies founded by alumni, dropouts, and current students from UPenn, Harvard, and Stanford. We've invested in 180+ companies and our portfolio includes: Jeeves, Datafleets (acq'd by LiveRamp), Hightouch, Dandy, Nala, Siro.ai and many more.
A VC fund and network committed to investing in student and alumni founders
Community Lead
2020 - 2025
Elpha is the largest community platform for women in tech spanning across all continents with over 200K members. Elpha was part of the YC S19 batch.
Where women in tech talk candidly online
Raised $1,250,000.00 from Y Combinator, Friále, January Ventures, Maveron, Moxxie Ventures, Jessica Livingston, Holly Liu, Tracy Chou, Geoff Ralston and Michael Seibel.
Investor
2021 - 2023
Moxxie Ventures backs exceptional founders building products designed to make life and work better. Our investments include: Daily, Clubhouse, Carta, Certn, Overstory, PlusPlus and many more.
Moxxie Ventures is an early stage fund that invests in founders who make life and work better.
Global Programs Manager
2017 - 2021
Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) is one of New York’s leading technology accelerators and early-stage venture capital funds. It has invested in 150 start-ups since launching in 2011, helping to build the next generation of great New York technology companies. Its alumni companies, who come from all over the world, are already playing leading roles in the evolution of virtually every major global industry.
(ERA) Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator is an early-stage venture capital fund and technology accelerator.
Program Manager
2017 - 2017
Yunus&Youth (Y&Y) is an organisation that was created with the support of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Professor Muhammad Yunus to accelerate the growth of early-stage social enterprise across the world.
Chief Operating Officer
2016 - 2017
Enza Academy is an edtech start-up that strives to empower youth of color with the tools, resources and mentorship to develop their natural creative potential. Through a unique “3D’s approach”: Discover, Design and Develop, Enza Academy provides a curriculum that blends hands-on computer programming, business development, and social justice awareness.
Enza Academy is an innovation and leadership institute for high-potential high school youth in low-opportunity areas.
Frontier Social Enterprise Fellow
2015 - 2015
The Archimedes Project is an organisation that helps launching and designing scalable and market-driven water and sanitation social enterprises. In the context of the fellowship, my target country was Cameroon.
Archimedes Project is a venture builder that aims to prevent waterborne diseases by improving access to clean water and sanitation.
Office of Human Resources Management Project Assistant
2014 - 2014
During my time at the UN, I was staffed on a project with the Office of HR and Management to work on the Gender in Leadership report launched by SG Ban Ki Moon at the time. In my role, I created a database of female leaders from Africa as part of the Gender in Leadership project to hire more women at senior-level positions Collected data and findings to include in a United Nations recruiting benchmarking report for 2013-2014
Public Information Assistant
2014 - 2014
Provided logistical support for the organisation of special events (briefings or conferences): assist the public’s requests and coordinate communications with UN speakers Managed social media – update of the website and the Facebook webpage, from live update to original stories and photographs. Coordinated meetings and effective communication between the UN Department of Public Information and client offices and inter-agency partners Launched a professional partnership with the UN and NYU International Relations and Politics Association
Free access to all of the trade data available in the UN Comtrade database. The UN Comtrade database contains more than 3.1 billion trade