Theresia Gouw Ranzetta, partner with Accel Management Co, participates in a Women To Watch Round Table for Bloomberg Television in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, June 13, 2012.
Over the last several years, Theresia Gouw, a partner at Silicon Valley heavyweight Accel Partners, has built a reputation as one of venture capital’s top rising stars. At Accel, where she was the only female partner until 2008, Gouw has been responsible for several of the firm’s most successful investments, including Interlace Systems, Trulia, Learnvest and Zimbra.
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Recently, Gouw has been instrumental in building Accel’s New York office, and told CNN in 2011 that she spends 100 days on the road per year as she travels between Silicon Valley and New York.