Renee DiResta

Renee DiResta is Vice President of Business Development at Haven, an online platform for buying and selling ocean freight capacity, and co-founder of the Flight.vc Internet of Things Syndicate. She recently departed O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), where she invested in seed-stage technology startups with a focus on hardware, manufacturing, and logistics companies. Prior to OATV, Renee was an equity derivatives trader at Jane Street Capital, a quantitative proprietary trading firm in NYC. DiResta is interested in improving liquidity and transparency in private markets, and enjoys investing in and advising hardware startups. She is the author of “The Hardware Startup: Building Your Product, Business, and Brand”.