Hayley Barna
Hayley Barna is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded Birchbox in 2009 while at Harvard Business School.[1] In 2015, Barna "stepped away from her day-to-day role" at Birchbox,[2] but remains as one of their board members. With Birchbox on her resume, Barna joined First Round, a venture capital firm specializing in seed-stage funding,[3] as their first female partner.[4]
Hayley Barna | |
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Born | New York |
Residence | West Village |
Alma mater | Harvard University and Harvard Business School |
Occupation | Entrepreneur and Venture Capital |
Website | First Round |
Career
Barna began her career shortly after she graduated from Harvard University joining Bain & Company in New York.[5] She moved to Christie's Hong Kong location where she worked in strategy and then in product management for Amazon.com.[6]
While working towards her MBA at Harvard Business School, Barna met Katia Beauchamp and a friendship was born. So, too, was the idea of Birchbox which Barna founded with Beauchamp.[7] What began as a business plan during B-School turned into a website where they began to acquire customers interested in "an ecommerce experience focused on new product discovery."[8]
On February 16, 2016, Barna shared a post on publishing platform medium.com about her first day at First Round stating, "I can’t think of a better place to do this than First Round, which led the seed round in my company Birchbox, and has always put founders first through good times and bad."[9]
Personal life
During her time at Harvard Business School, Barna met her husband, Fredrik Vik Maroe. They wed in 2014 at a private estate located in Staatsbury, NY.
References
- ↑ Bosker, Bianca. "Executive Tech Editor". www.huffingtonpost.com. Huffington Post. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
- ↑ "Birchbox co-CEO Hayley Barna steps down". Fortune. 2015-08-11. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
- ↑ "First Round | crunchbase". www.crunchbase.com. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
- ↑ Rey, Jason Del (2016-02-16). "Birchbox Co-Founder Hayley Barna Joins First Round Capital as First Female Partner". Recode. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
- ↑ "Hayley Barna". www.bain.com. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
- ↑ "Hayley Barna - Claudia Chan". Claudia Chan. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
- ↑ "Hayley Barna, founder Birchbox | stagiworks.com". www.stagiworks.com. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
- ↑ "How I Did It: Katia Beauchamp and Hayley Barna, Founders of Birchbox - Maria Shriver". mariashriver.com. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
- ↑ Round, First (2016-02-16). "It's My First Day at First Round". Medium. Retrieved 2016-11-18.