Eva Epker is the Director of Marketing at Avestria Ventures. After graduating from Stanford University, she sought out copywriting opportunities, which included end-caps and in-app copy for the PetSmart Corporate Headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, blog posts, e-books, and growth marketing emails for a fintech startup called Shogun Enterprises (DBA Hearth Financing) in San Francisco, California, and, now, marketing and branding copy and design needs at Avestria Ventures. Her areas of expertise include articles and blog posts, newsletters, and social media. You can visit her and the Avestria team on Medium, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures, which invests in early-stage women's health and female-led life science ventures. Prior to Avestria, Linda spent 30+ years investing in public and private life science companies as an institutional investor, a corporate M&A executive, a hedge fund analyst, and a private venture investor. She's held roles at companies such as Essex Investment Management, Banc of America Securities, Novartis Diagnostics, Applied Biosystems (sold to Life Technologies Corp.) as well as at venture-backed life science companies such as VitaPath Genetics, Singulex, Raindance Technologies (sold to Bio-Rad), and Linkage Biosciences (sold to Thermo Fisher). Her areas of expertise includes finance, operations, and mergers and acquisitions and, within the life sciences specifically, diagnostics, genomics, healthcare services, and life science tools.
Women have been dismissed and neglected for centuries: any investment and innovation in this space can make an outsized impact: keeping women and their families healthy, aiding research and development, and eliminating the gender bias against women and their healthcare that has persisted since Ancient Greece.