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Iynna Halilou

General Partner | ex-UN and Moxxie Ventures | Wharton & NYU & Durham University Alumna

United States

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $25,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $50,000.00

Work Experience

2025

  • Adjunct Professor

    2025

    Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital

  • Adjunct Lecturer

    2024

    Introduction to Venture Capital Finance

  • General Partner

    2021

    The MBA Fund backs pre-seed and seed-stage companies founded by alumni, dropouts, and current students from UPenn, Harvard, and Stanford. We've invested in 180+ companies and our portfolio includes: Jeeves, Datafleets (acq'd by LiveRamp), Hightouch, Dandy, Nala, Siro.ai and many more.

2020 - 2025

  • Community Lead

    2020 - 2025

    Elpha is the largest community platform for women in tech spanning across all continents with over 200K members. Elpha was part of the YC S19 batch.

2021 - 2023

  • Investor

    2021 - 2023

    Moxxie Ventures backs exceptional founders building products designed to make life and work better. Our investments include: Daily, Clubhouse, Carta, Certn, Overstory, PlusPlus and many more.

  • Global Programs Manager

    2017 - 2021

    Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) is one of New York’s leading technology accelerators and early-stage venture capital funds. It has invested in 150 start-ups since launching in 2011, helping to build the next generation of great New York technology companies. Its alumni companies, who come from all over the world, are already playing leading roles in the evolution of virtually every major global industry.

2017 - 2017

  • Program Manager

    2017 - 2017

    Yunus&Youth (Y&Y) is an organisation that was created with the support of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Professor Muhammad Yunus to accelerate the growth of early-stage social enterprise across the world.

2016 - 2017

  • Chief Operating Officer

    2016 - 2017

    Enza Academy is an edtech start-up that strives to empower youth of color with the tools, resources and mentorship to develop their natural creative potential. Through a unique “3D’s approach”: Discover, Design and Develop, Enza Academy provides a curriculum that blends hands-on computer programming, business development, and social justice awareness.

2015 - 2015

  • Frontier Social Enterprise Fellow

    2015 - 2015

    The Archimedes Project is an organisation that helps launching and designing scalable and market-driven water and sanitation social enterprises. In the context of the fellowship, my target country was Cameroon.

2014 - 2014

  • Office of Human Resources Management Project Assistant

    2014 - 2014

    During my time at the UN, I was staffed on a project with the Office of HR and Management to work on the Gender in Leadership report launched by SG Ban Ki Moon at the time. In my role, I created a database of female leaders from Africa as part of the Gender in Leadership project to hire more women at senior-level positions Collected data and findings to include in a United Nations recruiting benchmarking report for 2013-2014

  • Public Information Assistant

    2014 - 2014

    Provided logistical support for the organisation of special events (briefings or conferences): assist the public’s requests and coordinate communications with UN speakers Managed social media – update of the website and the Facebook webpage, from live update to original stories and photographs. Coordinated meetings and effective communication between the UN Department of Public Information and client offices and inter-agency partners Launched a professional partnership with the UN and NYU International Relations and Politics Association