Wenda Harris Millard
Vice Chairman, President & Chief Operating Officer @ MediaLink
New York, United States
Wenda Harris Millard is a seed investor at MediaLink in New York focused on Software and SaaS. In April 2009, Wenda Harris Millard became President and COO of MediaLink LLC, a leading strategic advisory and business development firm that provides critical counsel and direction to the media, advertising and entertainment industries and to companies and investors that interact with those sectors.Before joining MediaLink, Millard was Co-CEOand President, Media for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. She joined MSLO in July 2007 after three years as a member of its Board of Directors. Millard oversaw MSLO’s media businesses, which include publishing, internet and broadcasting. She was the driving force behind creating cross-platform programs for marketers in TV, digital, magazines and radio.Before MSLO, Millard was Chief Sales Officer at Yahoo! where she led the team that drove revenue from $700 million to over $6 billion in six years and was consistently credited as the number one sales organization in the media industry. On an industry-wide level her work at Yahoo! established brand advertising on the web. Prior to Yahoo!, Millard was Chief Internet Officer at Ziff Davis Media and President of Ziff Davis Internet. Previously, Millard was a founding member of the executive team at DoubleClick, where she served as Executive Vice President responsible for establishing the DoubleClick brand and overseeing the operations of DoubleClick Media. She also served as President and Group Publisher of SRDS, Senior Vice President and Publisher of Family Circle and Executive Vice President/Group Publisher of Adweek, Mediaweek and Brandweek magazines.Millard has received numerous industry awards including being named in 2012 one of the “100 Most Influential Women in Advertising in the Last 100 Years”; the 2011 Oracle Award from Springboard; the 2009 ad:tech Lifetime Achievement Award; the 2007 John A. Reisenbach Award for Distinguished Citizenship; the 2006 “Advertising Person of the Year” Silver Medal Award from the AAF and the 2005 Matrix Award for “Women Who Change the World”. Advertising Age also acknowledged her as a “Digital Media Master” — one of the 20 most influential executives in interactive media. She was the subject of a profile by Tom Brokaw as part of NBC’s “Women to Watch” series.Active on behalf of the advertising industry throughout her career, Millard is past Chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau and former President of the Advertising Club of New York. She has served on the Boards of the Advertising Council, the American Advertising Federation, the Advertising Education Foundation and others. Currently, she serves on the boards of Verifone Inc., Millenial Media and Simulmedia. She also sits on the board of the James Beard Foundation. She served two terms as a Trustee of Trinity College in Hartford.Millard holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA from Trinity College.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Wenda Harris Millard invests in
Stages Wenda Harris Millard invests in
Countries Wenda Harris Millard invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (57%)
- SaaS 3 (43%)
- Big Data 2 (29%)
- Human Resources 2 (29%)
- Data Integration 2 (29%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (29%)
- Angel 2 (29%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (29%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Sinecure, Inc.
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Sinecure.ai is intelligent talent acquisition. Sinecure is a data-driven and AI enhanced talent acquisition solution. Our Explorator platform is designed to find your most highly qualified candidates while reducing your time to hire, sourcing, research and overall costs.We're more than data driven. Were intelligence driven.We aredesigned for your business, not everybody's business. Explorator analyzes billions of industry specific data points as well as relevant candidate specific data (skills, content, social media, experience and more) to provide a comprehensive, multi-dimensional view of your candidates. This is done through a customizable data collection engine that utilizes 1st and 3rd party data. Resulting in a massive vertical-business graph from which your most qualified candidates emerge. Not more candidates. Better qualified. | $3M / Seed / Sep 28, 2022 | |
Rebel Girls
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Rebel Girls is a global, multi-platform empowerment brand dedicated to helping raise the most inspired and confident generation of girls around the world through content, experiences, products, and community. Originating from an international best-selling children’s book, Rebel Girls amplifies stories of real-life, extraordinary women throughouthistory, geography, and field of excellence. With a growing community of nearly 20 million self-identified Rebel Girls spanning more than 100 countries, the brand engages with Generation Alpha through its book series, award-winning podcast, events and merchandise. In 2021, Rebel Girls launched the Dream On app to re-imagine sleep routines by sharing empowering stories with a screen-free audio experience; and inspired girls everywhere to Celebrate Black Girl Magic with a new book, merchandise and events. To date, they have sold 7 million books in 51 languages and reached 14 million podcast downloads. | $13M / Seed / Mar 03, 2022 | |
Lemonada Media
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Lemonada Media is a podcast network that shares the unfiltered version of the human experience. Lemonada's podcasts feature first-person narratives that live on through an engaged community and shares content that gives listeners a sense of understanding about different experiences of others and makes them relate to it, hence allowinglisteners to understand multiple human experiences and make them feel good and take lessons for their own experiences. | $8M / Series A / Jan 27, 2022 | |
Caden
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The internet is far from perfect. One of its greatest flaws has been the decades-long abuse of our personal data. That's where we come in. | $3.4M / Pre-Seed / Apr 01, 2021 | |
AnthologyAI
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AnthologyAI is the breakthrough Artificial Intelligence Consumer Insights & Predictions Platform with billions of real-time data sourced directly and ethically from consumers. Access previously unavailable levels of intelligence about retail spending, geolocation, media consumption, travel, ride sharing and more — in realtime, at scale. | $3.4M / Pre-Seed / Apr 01, 2021 | |
in/PACT
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in/PACT is on a mission to grow the world's heart by connecting customers of financial institutions and loyalty programs to the causes they care about the most. in/PACT's cloud-based platform offers charitable giving solution for digital banking and loyalty programs, enabling people to give more easily and more often to morecharities. Our core fintech platform, GoodCoin, allows a bank or credit union's customers to make, manage and track all their charitable contributions in one place, through the convenience and security of their financial institution's online and mobile platform. in/PACT provides a trusted environment for people to make purposeful contributions.With over one million causes and a strong set of APIs, the GoodCoin platform eliminates time consuming processes, streamlines workflows, and provides robust enterprise features designed for high volume executions.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina.For more information on in/PACT: https://inpact.com/For more information on GoodCoin: https://goodcoins.io/ | $1.1M / Angel / Jan 01, 2016 | |
Namely
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Namely is an all-in-one platform that manages all HR data in one place, with personalized service to help companies get better and faster. The company's early service offering included HR information system, social newsfeed, payroll, and performance management tools.Namely give companies the software and support they need to evolve theircompany cultures It has evolved along with company needs. They handle administration and compliance across HR, payroll, time, and benefits, so HR teams can focus on developing their people and providing a great employee experience.Name was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, NY, USA. | $1M / Angel / Jan 17, 2012 |
Co-Investors
About MediaLink
MediaLink is a strategic advisory firm that provides strategic advisory and implementation services to companies at all stages of the business life cycle at the convergence of media, marketing, technology, and entertainment. In addition to developing, refining, and executing strategies that drive competitive advantage and business acceleration forits partners, it also has diversified its product suite to include executive search, conference programming, and event production.MediaLink’s client partners include companies in the Fortune 500, media, entertainment and emerging technology companies, and private equity and venture capital firms. It is led by Michael Kassan and Wenda Harris Millard alongside a team of over 70, including senior executives with operational expertise in their respective fields. Founded in 2004, MediaLink is headquartered in Los Angeles, C.A.
MediaLink Contacts
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Grant Gittlin
Chief of Stuff for CEO / Chairman
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Wenda Harris Millard
Vice Chairman, President & Chief Operating Officer
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Andrew White
Senior Vice President
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David Anderson
SVP
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Donna Sharp
Managing Director
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What does Wenda Harris Millard invest in?
Wenda Harris Millard invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Big Data startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 7 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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The most recent investment recorded for Wenda Harris Millard closed in Sep 2022. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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