Anne Dwane
Co-Founder & Partner @ Village Global
San Francisco, United States
Anne Dwane is a seed investor at Village Global in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Anne is an early stage investor with experience as a tech company founder, venture-backed CEO and public company executive. Prior to her current role at Village, Anne was Co-Founder & Partner of GSV Acceleration Fund. This early stage venture capital fund backs entrepreneurs leveraging technology to improve learning and talent developmentfrom K-12 through higher education and career advancement. Previously, Anne was Chief Business Officer at Chegg. Anne joined Chegg with the acquisition of Zinch, which enabled millions of students to showcase themselves as "more than test scores" to be matched with colleges, scholarships, grad schools and more. Previously, Anne co-founded Military.com to connect service members and veterans to benefits, including GI Bill and career networking. Military.com was acquired by Monster Worldwide, where she led affinity networks. Prior, Anne was in business development at Paul Allen's Interval Research Corporation and in brand management for Nabisco. She holds a bachelor's degree in Marketing & International Management from Georgetown University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Anne is co-author of Getting In: The Zinch Guide to College Admissions & Financial Aid in the Digital Age (Wiley 2011). She was named a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.
- Total investments:
- 56
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
Last updated:
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Industries Anne Dwane invests in
Stages Anne Dwane invests in
Countries Anne Dwane invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 19 (34%)
- Software 13 (23%)
- Machine Learning 10 (18%)
- SaaS 7 (13%)
- Business Intelligence 6 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 27 (48%)
- Pre-Seed 19 (34%)
- Series A 3 (5%)
- Angel 1 (2%)
- Series D 1 (2%)
Country
- United States 28 (50%)
- India 3 (5%)
- United Kingdom 3 (5%)
- Nigeria 1 (2%)
- Colombia 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Eyebot develops eye examination technologies and manufactures eyeglasses that remove barriers to getting vision care. | $20M / Series A / Aug 26, 2025 | ||
| Launched in 2018, Forethought is a generative AI for customer service automation to maximize efficiency and productivity. Forethought’s products enable seamless customer experiences by infusing generative AI, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), at each stage of the customer support journey: resolving common cases instantly, predicting andprioritizing cases, and assisting agents with relevant knowledge. | $25M / Series D / May 13, 2025 | ||
| The only cyber insurance and security solution designed to give businesses digital peace of mind – all in a few clicks, no tech expertise needed. | $9.9M / Seed / Apr 17, 2025 | ||
| Breakout is the always available agentic workforce that grows your inbound pipeline by Delivering personalized conversations to every website visitor Showing live demos based on the conversation Giving actionable insights to the GTM team on what your website visitors are looking for | $3.3M / Seed / Feb 27, 2025 | ||
| Flower Computer Company creates technology that turns everyday objects like flowers into interconnected computers. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Sep 28, 2024 | ||
| P-1 AI is a technology company focused on developing an artificial general engineering intelligence (AGEI) designed to help humanity design physical systems with far greater efficiency and complexity than currently possible. | Pre-Seed / Jul 30, 2024 | ||
| Eyebot develops eye examination technologies and manufactures eyeglasses that remove barriers to getting vision care. | $6M / Seed / Jun 06, 2024 | ||
| Angel AI Company is an AI platform that offers kids between the ages of five and twelve an age-appropriate online experience. | $4.8M / Seed / May 16, 2024 | ||
| A safer and smarter portal to your child's digital world. Angel is a new way for children to interact with the digital world. With Angel’s unique AI technology, content is dynamically translated and filtered to ensure all online interactions are age-appropriate. Kids love it. Parents helped design it. | $4.8M / Seed / May 16, 2024 | ||
| Excarta is a cloud-based weather intelligence platform that places AI at the core of its offering, transforming the way businesses anticipate, prepare for, and react to weather-related risks. | $2.5M / Seed / Dec 19, 2023 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Village Global
Village Global is an early stage venture capital firm backed by some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs.
Village Global Contacts
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Brianne Kimmel
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Anne Dwane
Co-Founder & Partner
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Ben Casnocha
Co-Founder & Partner
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Erik Torenberg
Co-Founder & Partner
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What does Anne Dwane invest in?
Anne Dwane invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 56 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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