Nancy Torres
Venture Partner at Visible Hands
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Vice President
2025 - Current
Open Opportunity Fund invests in B2B SaaS, enterprise IT, artificial intelligence, fintech, and health tech. Launched in 2020 within SoftBank, Fund I deployed $100M across 35 core investments in high-growth companies including Cityblock Health, Eight Sleep, Esusu, Flutterflow, Lumu, and Ontop. Based on the performance and success of Fund I, the team spun out of SoftBank to continue to execute the thesis. As Senior Vice President of Value Creation, I focus on partnering closely with founders to help them solve key operational challenges, hire and retain top talent, refine go-to-market strategies, and prepare for future fundraising and scale. By offering hands-on support at critical inflection points, the value creation team plays a key role in helping portfolio companies build enduring, high-growth businesses.
Open Opportunity Fund is a venture capital arm of SoftBank Group.
Kauffman Fellow Class 28
2023
The Kauffman Fellowship is a two-year executive education program that identifies and develops global leaders in VC while providing a structured curriculum, peer learning, executive coaching, and networking. With 800+ Fellows across 50+ countries, Kauffman Fellows is the largest network of venture capital investors and innovation leaders in the world. Each year, the organization adds a new cohort of 60 Fellows who attend the two-year program.
Co-investment VC firm supporting the mission of the Kauffman Fellows
Venture Partner
2024 - 2025
Visible Hands is a pre-seed venture capital firm investing in overlooked founders building the future of financial services, healthcare, and climate. At the earliest stages of company-building, Visible Hands provides meaningful funding, personalized support, and social capital, helping founders build exceptional technology startups.
Visible Hands is a Venture Capital firm and Accelerator that provides meaningful funding and support to early stage companies.
Partner
2021 - 2024
Ulu Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture firm in Silicon Valley funding teams creating industry-leading market opportunities. Ulu generates financial results using decision analysis to create a disciplined, repeatable decision-making process that analyzes risk-reward trade-offs and reduces cognitive bias
Ulu Ventures primarily operates as a seed-stage venture fund.
Technology Investment Banking
2019 - 2021
Advised global leading internet, software, and hardware technology companies on major strategic financial decisions ranging from capital raising to M&A. MBA Associate (2019), Associate (2020-2021). Focus Areas: Fintech, Collaboration Software, Marketplaces Select Transactions: - Lead Financial Advisor to ZipRecruiter’s $3 billion Direct Listing - Lead Left Bookrunner to Monday.com’s $574 million IPO including $150 million concurrent private placement from Salesforce Ventures and Zoom Video Communications, Inc. - Lead Left Bookrunner to Cloudflare’s $525 million IPO - Lead Left Bookrunner to Xometry’s $302 million IPO - Lead Bookrunner to Couchbase’s $185 million IPO - Lead Left Bookrunner to Upstart’s $180 million IPO
Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Global Business Development
2016 - 2017
Global Business Operations and Strategy focused on assessing, implementing, and tracking financial performance of Fintech and Driver partnerships and new products
Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.
Raised $30,212,450,000.00 from PayPal.
Design Research
2017 - 2017
IDEO's research & design lab partnering with industries to ideate, prototype, and invest in emerging technology applications. Focus Areas: Blockchain, Marketplaces
IDEO CoLab Ventures is invest in early-stage distributed web startups and co-create with them to ship new products and protocols.
Research Analyst
2012 - 2015
Data analysis, experimentation, research, and partnerships aimed at improving organizational operations for Google globally. Focus Areas: Behavioral Economics, Diversity Data operations and technology consultant for City of San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management through Google partnership with Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.