Gillian Muessig

Gillian Muessig is the General Partner and Managing Director of the Mastersfund™, a global gender-lens venture capital fund based in Seattle, WA. She is a co-founder of several tech startups, including Moz, the world’s most popular provider of digital marketing software. In addition to serving on dozens of Boards of Directors and Advisors worldwide, Muessig has served as a tech advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a business and program advisor to the U.S. State Department, German Marshall Fund, SwissContact, as well as government programs in Switzerland, Germany, China, Peru, and throughout the Balkans.

Muessig speaks globally on the future of work and life, emerging funding models in private equity and venture capital, and solutions to improve equality in entrepreneurship. Her audio podcast, "VC Confidential," focuses on the expanding venture capital investment opportunities for diverse investors and capitalization options for diverse tech company founders. Over more than three decades, Muessig has helped thousands of companies to launch, grow, pivot and thrive.

An acknowledged authority on both investing in the future of work and life and on emerging trends in Private Equity investing, Muessig has designed new, risk-mitigated and sustainable venture investment models to better serve the expanding diversity of tech founders. She has helped launch numerous emerging fund managers to launch innovative VC funds to better serve the startup and investor communities.

She is the host of "CEOcoach," a ten-year running podcast for entrepreneurs and now co-hosts the weekly podcast, VC Confidential. Over the course of more than 30 years, Muessig has helped hundreds of companies to launch, grow, pivot, and thrive.