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Mia Nguyen

VC at All Raise

New York, New York

Overview 

Mia Nguyen is currently the Operating Principal at Four Cities Capital, with notable achievements including serving as Employee #1 at Stealth and leading VC Champions at All Raise. She has a diverse background in entrepreneurship, blogging, and leadership, and actively invests in various stages and sectors, particularly focusing on female and diverse founders in Boston, New England, and New York City.

Work Experience 

  • Chief of Staff

    2024 - Current

    Building an early-stage venture fund that makes a low volume of high-conviction investments in software companies at the early stages of product-market fit.

  • VC Champions Lead

    2021 - 2024

    Provided mentorship opportunities for the next generation of women & underrepresented investors by connecting them with General Partners at top tier venture capital firms.

All Raise is a nonprofit on a mission to accelerate the success of female founders and funders to build a more prosperous equitable future.

Raised $15,000,000.00 from Silicon Valley Bank, Sequoia Capital, Pivotal Ventures, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Reid Hoffman Foundation, Silicon Valley Bank and Pivotal Ventures.

  • Operating Principal

    2022 - 2024

    Joined as the first full-time employee, working alongside part-time General Partners. Wore many hats supporting the firm and its $60M AUM. Tracked capital deployment, executed the formation of single-asset SPVs, supported institutional fundraising efforts, revised portfolio monitoring system to track 200+ investments, prepared quarterly investor reports, hired & managed outsourced service providers to support with fund administration and financial services, and more.

  • Chief of Staff

    2019 - 2022

    Initially joined as a summer intern on the platform team (May 2019), transitioned to the investment team during undergrad (January 2020), and then joined full-time as Chief of Staff (January 2021). As Chief of Staff, I supported the co-founding partner, Michael Skok, with his new investments and portfolio companies as well as managed the firm's investor relations and fundraising efforts.

  • Advisor

    2020 - 2022

  • Founder & Co-Director

    2018 - 2020

    Co-founded Northeastern's first student-run organization that aims to increase the number of female & nonbinary entrepreneurs through programs that build confidence and teach an entrepreneurial mindset.

  • Product Marketing

    2020 - 2020

    Joined as their 5th employee and first non-technical hire focused on helping find product-market fit. RemoteHQ was acquired by Presence in August 2023.

RemoteHQ enables businesses to create interactive meeting rooms where their employees can use video conferencing to communicate.

Raised $2,700,000.00 from Edward Lando, Underscore VC, Pareto Holdings, TechU Ventures and Charles Zedlewski.

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