Charlie O'Donnell & Divya Narendra

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Charlie O'Donnell
Charlie O'Donnell is a Partner and Founder of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, an early stage seed fund focused on NYC area tech investments. He has prior venture experience at Union Square Ventures and First Round Capital, and sourced First Round's Investment in GroupMe, which sold to Skype in 2011, as well as the investment in SinglePlatform, which sold to Constant Contact.

Charlie has been an active member of the NYC venture capital and startup community for 10 years in roles ranging from institutional fund investor to VC to entrepreneur.

Divya Narendra
Divya Narendra is the CEO and cofounder of SumZero, an investment website for professional investors that is "the world's largest community of hedge fund, mutual fund, and private equity professionals." SumZero is focused on helping top tier investors share actionable ideas and grow their professional networks. Though it currently has tens of thousands of users, roughly 75% of buyside applicants for membership are rejected.

Divya also cofounded HarvardConnection / ConnectU with Harvard classmates Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss. ConnectU is a forerunner of Facebook whose legal battle with the social media giant was depicted in The Social Network. Actor Max Minghella portrayed Divya in the movie.