At Raviga, Laurie invested heavily and successfully in the energy, financial, and health care arenas. She became Lead Partner when Peter Gregory died, and was Managing Partner there previous to him being rendered dead. Before Raviga, Laurie distinguished herself at Andreesen-Horowitz, Wood Opal, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S. in Economics), the Wharton School of Business, and also in other areas unrelated to business, which thus do not concern us here.

Yet, believing in a healthy work-life balance as she does, Laurie enjoys pictures of dogs: both those she owns and those she does not. The pictures, that is. Laurie owns no dogs or animals of any kind.

Before co-founding Bream-Hall, Monica was the youngest associate partner in the history of Raviga Capital. Peter Gregory personally recruited her from McKinsey and Company, approaching her on a McKinsey team-building ski retreat, despite his intense fear of snow and sliding things. Before McKinsey, she did opposition research for the 2008 Obama campaign, and was personally responsible for uncovering that Senator John McCain used the internet infrequently.

Monica has successfully shepherded investments in everything from the internet of things to social networks for actual shepherds: but she makes a point of staying personally involved with all startups, and mentoring all founders she brings under the Bream-Hall umbrella. She earned her bachelor of science in economics from Princeton University, and her M.B.A. from the Stanford School of Business, where she led the fight to pluralize Stanford’s “Cardinal” team names to “Cardinals.” Though ultimately unsuccessful, Monica stands by the effort: despite the “it’s a color” argument, public perception is Stanford teams are bizarrely named.