Tessa Battistin

Senior Business Development Manager, Venture Capital & Private Equity Partnerships

2023 - 2025

Shopify’s Investor Partner Program includes the world’s largest Private Equity and Venture Capital firms. We work with investors and their portfolio companies to accelerate the growth of world-class brands.

Director, Strategic Programming

2022 - 2023

Now known as Drip. Portfolio company of Interlace Ventures, founded by Interlace Ventures Partner, Vibhu Norby. Solana Spaces was the world's first physical retail, educational, and community space dedicated to Web3, with locations in The Shops at Hudson Yards, NYC and Wynwood, Miami.

Investor and Head of Platform

2021 - 2022

Interlace Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing in founders who are reimagining commerce. Investments include: Alloy Automation, Bounty, FLYP, Treet, Queenly, Solana Spaces (Now known as Drip)

Venture Partner

2020 - 2021

Selected to take part in Republic’s Venture Partner Program, which is a one-year professional development program for early-stage investors. The program's focus was to create community amongst early-stage investors, with a focus on expanding funding access for diverse founders.

Director of Platform

2019 - 2021

Rosecliff Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm with $1.4Bn assets under management. Investments include: Allbirds, Thirty Madison, Casper, Getlabs, Pipe, Trust & Will, Roman.

Platform Manager

2018 - 2019

ERA runs two, four-month programs for seed-stage startups per year. As a fund & accelerator program, ERA gives seed-stage capital to outstanding founding teams.

Founder

2016 - 2018

Founded e-commerce brand with emphasis on low carbon footprint. All garments manufactured in Montreal with deadstock raw materials. Worked with engineering team to build customer-facing interactive supply chain map that tracked carbon footprint of each SKU. Using this unique carbon footprint measurement, Asset Designs planted trees for every item purchased.

Resident, McGill University + Notman House Partnership

2017 - 2017

Part of the Notman House Incubator for early-stage startups, in partnership with the McGill University Office of Innovation. Asset Designs was selected as a participant startup.

Program Intern

2015 - 2015