Ms Allison Long Pettine

KANDO id: 1034001

Bio

Allison has over 15 years of venture capital experience, most recently as a founding partner at Ad Astra Ventures. Ad Astra is a San Diego-based venture fund and accelerator for scalable, dynamic companies with at least one female founder. Allison is also a founding partner of investor group Seed San Diego and the founding partner of Crescent Ridge Partners, which provides seed capital to capital-efficient early stage startups. Allison is a mentor at Tech Stars and Praxis Labs, is an advisor to UCSD’s The Basement incubator, and serves on the board of the Long Family Foundation. Previously, Allison co-founded Lymber, a technology company in the wellness space that was acquired by Mindbody in 2017, and also worked in finance and corporate strategy. Allison earned her undergraduate degree at UCSD and her MBA from UCLA and the School of Management at Fudan University.

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