Vanessa Larco

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I’m a Partner at NEA, one of the world’s largest venture capital firms. I specialize in…

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  • New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

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Volunteer Experience

  • LatinxVC Graphic

    Board Member

    LatinxVC

    - Present 2 years 10 months

  • College of Computing at Georgia Tech Graphic

    Advisory Board Member

    College of Computing at Georgia Tech

    - Present 5 years 4 months

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    Board Member

    Venture Atlanta Conference

    - Present 5 years 10 months

    Best conference to attend if you’re interested in meeting top entrepreneurs in the Southeast. No fluff, all deal flow.

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    Committee Member

    The Junior League

    - 2 years 3 months

    Social Services

    Since its inception in 1911, the JLSF has provided the community with an estimated six million volunteer hours and more than $24 million through direct community grants, advocacy, and membership training and development.

    As a problem surfaces within the community, the JLSF is frequently the first organization to recognize and address the issue, providing volunteer energy, financial assistance, and public support. Often in collaboration with other community groups and/or the public…

    Since its inception in 1911, the JLSF has provided the community with an estimated six million volunteer hours and more than $24 million through direct community grants, advocacy, and membership training and development.

    As a problem surfaces within the community, the JLSF is frequently the first organization to recognize and address the issue, providing volunteer energy, financial assistance, and public support. Often in collaboration with other community groups and/or the public sector, the JLSF designs and launches a program, then works to achieve community impact and measurable results.

Publications

  • Decentralization in Wikipedia Governance

    Journal of Management Information Systems

    How does "self-governance" happen in Wikipedia? Through in-depth interviews with 20 individuals who have held a variety of responsibilities in the English-language Wikipedia, we obtained rich descriptions of how various forces produce and regulate social structures on the site. Although Wikipedia is sometimes portrayed as lacking oversight, our analysis describes Wikipedia as an organization with highly refined policies, norms, and a technological architecture that supports organizational…

    How does "self-governance" happen in Wikipedia? Through in-depth interviews with 20 individuals who have held a variety of responsibilities in the English-language Wikipedia, we obtained rich descriptions of how various forces produce and regulate social structures on the site. Although Wikipedia is sometimes portrayed as lacking oversight, our analysis describes Wikipedia as an organization with highly refined policies, norms, and a technological architecture that supports organizational ideals of consensus building and discussion. We describe how governance on the site is becoming increasingly decentralized as the community grows and how this is predicted by theories of commons-based governance developed in offline contexts. We also briefly examine local governance structures called WikiProjects through the example of WikiProject Military History, one of the oldest and most prolific projects on the site.

    Other authors
    • Andrea Forte
    • Amy Bruckman
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Patents

  • COMPOUND GESTURE-SPEECH COMMANDS

    Filed US 20110313768

    A multimedia entertainment system combines both gestures and voice commands to provide an enhanced control scheme. A user's body position or motion may be recognized as a gesture, and may be used to provide context to recognize user generated sounds, such as speech input. Likewise, speech input may be recognized as a voice command, and may be used to provide context to recognize a body position or motion as a gesture. Weights may be assigned to the inputs to facilitate processing. When a…

    A multimedia entertainment system combines both gestures and voice commands to provide an enhanced control scheme. A user's body position or motion may be recognized as a gesture, and may be used to provide context to recognize user generated sounds, such as speech input. Likewise, speech input may be recognized as a voice command, and may be used to provide context to recognize a body position or motion as a gesture. Weights may be assigned to the inputs to facilitate processing. When a gesture is recognized, a limited set of voice commands associated with the recognized gesture are loaded for use. Further, additional sets of voice commands may be structured in a hierarchical manner such that speaking a voice command from one set of voice commands leads to the system loading a next set of voice commands.

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  • INTEGRATED VOICE COMMAND MODAL USER INTERFACE

    Filed US 12/917,461

    A system and method are disclosed for providing a NUI system including a speech reveal mode where visual objects on a display having an associated voice command are highlighted. This allows a user to quickly and easily identify available voice commands, and also enhances an ability of a user to learn voice commands as there is a direct association between an object and its availability as a voice command.

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  • SPEECH RECOGNITION USER INTERFACE

    Filed US 12/900,004

    Speech recognition techniques are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a novice mode is available such that when the user is unfamiliar with the speech recognition system, a voice user interface (VUI) may be provided to guide them. The VUI may display one or more speech commands that are presently available. The VUI may also provide feedback to train the user. After the user becomes more familiar with speech recognition, the user may enter speech commands without the aid of the novice mode. In…

    Speech recognition techniques are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a novice mode is available such that when the user is unfamiliar with the speech recognition system, a voice user interface (VUI) may be provided to guide them. The VUI may display one or more speech commands that are presently available. The VUI may also provide feedback to train the user. After the user becomes more familiar with speech recognition, the user may enter speech commands without the aid of the novice mode. In this “experienced mode,” the VUI need not be displayed. Therefore, the user interface is not cluttered.

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  • COLLABORATIVE SEARCH AND SHARE

    Filed US 771,282

    Collaborative search and share is provided by a method of facilitating collaborative content-finding, which includes displaying a toolbar user interface object for each user that not only allows each user to perform content-finding but also increases awareness of each user to the activities of other users. The method further includes displaying content results as various disparate image clips that can easily be shared, moved, etc. amongst users.

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  • MANIPULATION OF GRAPHICAL ELEMENTS VIA GESTURES

    Filed US 12/541,795

    A method of operating a graphical user interface of a computing device is disclosed. The method comprises displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) element on the touch sensitive display screen. The method further comprises in response to receiving touch input data indicative of a one-touch gesture mapping the one-touch gesture to a corresponding GUI element function. The method further comprises in response to receiving touch input data indicative of a multi-touch gesture, mapping the…

    A method of operating a graphical user interface of a computing device is disclosed. The method comprises displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) element on the touch sensitive display screen. The method further comprises in response to receiving touch input data indicative of a one-touch gesture mapping the one-touch gesture to a corresponding GUI element function. The method further comprises in response to receiving touch input data indicative of a multi-touch gesture, mapping the multi-touch gesture to the corresponding GUI element function. The method further comprises transforming display of the GUI element on the touch sensitive display screen based on the corresponding GUI element function.

    Other inventors
    • Daniel Wigdor
    • Sarah Williams
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Honors & Awards

  • NVCA Rising Star 2022

    NVCA

    The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) presents its annual industry leadership awards recognizing individuals, firms, and organizations across the venture capital community.

    “Determining who gets the Rising Star Award is difficult thanks to the breadth of emerging talent in the venture community,” said Franklin. “Meagan Loyst, Vanessa Larco, and Shaan-Chirag Gandhi have had major accomplishments in their young careers and exemplify the next generation of venture-capital…

    The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) presents its annual industry leadership awards recognizing individuals, firms, and organizations across the venture capital community.

    “Determining who gets the Rising Star Award is difficult thanks to the breadth of emerging talent in the venture community,” said Franklin. “Meagan Loyst, Vanessa Larco, and Shaan-Chirag Gandhi have had major accomplishments in their young careers and exemplify the next generation of venture-capital professionals establishing themselves as future standard bearers of the industry.”

  • GT College of Computing Rising Star Award

    Georgia Tech College of Computing

    The Rising Stars Award recognizes young alumni who are already making an impact on computing and computing education.

  • The San Francisco Business Time's 40 under 40

    The San Francisco Business Time

    The San Francisco Business Times will honor the rising stars of Bay Area business in the annual 40 Under 40 Class of 2020. Our aim is to recognize the young business leaders building the Bay Area's future by making significant contributions to their industries, their companies and/or their communities.

    https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2020/03/06/meet-the-san-francisco-business-times-40-under-40.html#g/467570/19

  • Women of Influence 2015

    Silicon Valley Business Journal

    100 women rocking Silicon Valley business: Meet the 2015 Women of Influence.

    Are we there yet? Our Women of Influence weigh in on pay, gender equity and the challenges of being a professional woman in Silicon Valley.

    http://j.mp/vlarcob

  • 35 Women under 35 Who Are Changing the Tech Industry

    Glamour Magazine

    Glamour Magazine: Meet the top young women leaders who are changing the face of technology.
    http://glmr.me/1BYECvE

  • Los 20 Latinos Más Influyentes en la Industria de la Tecnología de 2014

    CNET Español

    Top 20 Most Influential Latinos in the Tech Industry 2014

    http://cnet.co/1ClKYUD

  • Blue Chip Award - High Potential Program

    Microsoft

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  • Spanish

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  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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