Amy Fu
Vice President
First Round Capital
Amy Fu is a Vice President at First Round Capital. Her official profile places her at a firm focused exclusively on the earliest stages of company building.
Bio
Professional summary
Hayley Barna is a Partner at First Round, where she joined in 2016 to lead the firm's New York office. She invests in early-stage founders working on real-world impact problems across healthcare, climate, supply chain and commerce. Before First Round, she co-founded Birchbox in 2010 and helped scale it from a Harvard Business School project into a 200-person subscription commerce business.
Notable companies
Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed
AlmaMirrorStudsSiteRxArbor
Background
Career, education, and skills
Career history
- First Round CapitalPartner2016 – Present
- BirchboxCo-founder2010 – 2015
- Bain & Company, Christie's and AmazonStrategy and product roles
Education
- Harvard UniversityBA
- Harvard Business SchoolMBA
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