Casanova Ventures is an advisory group and high touch agency of meta-connectors who hand-curate the right relationships. We bring together the top super agents who condense time and provide startups to major corporations unprecedented access to the perfect pieces of their puzzle.
That may mean building out mentor, advisor, and investor networks or crafting connections with your wish list clients and strategic partners. Whether you need sales, traction, capital, ideal hires, or the right media and visibility opportunities, our joy is leveraging the combined wealth of our network on your behalf.
NICOLE CASANOVA
CEO AND CONNECTION CATALYST
Nicole Casanova’s 1995 Masters was on Targeted Marketing on the Web and she was an early founder in three San Francisco startups, Homestore (Move.com), Lycos and Mypoints. All went public. All are still in business. From employee number three to a team of 2000+, overselling a $350k quota by $6.5 mil and negotiating one licensing deal that surpassed a decade’s worth of total revenue, she’s catalyzed rapid growth first hand.
Intrigued with behavior change, she created Shift, a game that shows people why they do what they do. With content from leaders like Marianne Williamson and Eckhart Tolle, Shift was sold in hundreds of stores, used in psychology practices, offered in workshops and as an online game with multi-player video chat. And, after working with clients from HP and Coca-Cola to Stephen Covey, she knows the best ways to change behaviors and make them stick - critical for developing the rock star entrepreneurial mindset.
She is a startup junkie that loves working with Digital, Tech, Media, Gaming, Advertising, LOHAS, socially conscious and women-led companies to uncover and execute on the lever points that will catapult them to success.
As a mentor for numerous accelerators and startup studios like Boomtown and Mergelane, she found herself advising female founders. As founding partner of The Vinetta Project, she's helped tech's top female founders raise over $180M.
Nicole’s worked internal as an early founder or Interim CXO in numerous companies including one of the first online video providers, Mobilerider, a media buying agency, IMM, the first organic food delivery service, Mile High Organics, and even a biofeedback hardware provider, Wild Divine. More recently, she led a team at Interactions, the 17 year old leader in Conversational AI, building their AI voice enabled drive-thru program with the top restaurant chains, QSRs, and Fast Casuals. The largest Connected TV gaming company in the world hired her to build out their video content offerings by aggregating content for Roku, Amazon, Samsung, Sony etc. with the biggest influencers and content providers.
Nicole’s company, Casanova Ventures, uses their Art of Leverage Advisement and Connection Curation to catalyze some of the biggest businesses, lead the growth on cutting edge emerging technologies, and give the next leaders of our time the resources and relationships they need to make their biggest impact. Because of their access to unique deal flow, Casanova Ventures is often asked to source and vet technology for the largest corporations and investors and provide insights on market trends.
Nicole has cultivated a network of other SuperConnectors she leverages and many of their current deals are the next emerging technologies at the intersection of sports, advertising, music, media, gaming, eSports, influencer marketing and all things digital. That said, you can name an industry from Clean Energy to Fintech to Healthtech to Luxury Travel and Nicole has likely advised a handful of companies and has a robust network. She is industry agnostic and between her and her contacts, they can access everyone. After all, the wealth is in the network.
An all out advocate for serving rather than selling, she believes that when we cultivate great relationships we develop the best businesses.
If you understand that the wealth is in the network, you'll totally get this message:
Watch the Connection Builds Innovation talk in its entirety to see what Nicole stands for:
SABRINA SALAS
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Sabrina ensures our success through her diligence, attention to detail and unique ability to predict our next needs and make them happen. She combines a love of analytical research with the ability to find our client's perfect piece of their puzzle and facilitate those connections. She also increases our awareness through our social channels, community involvement and helps curate our live events. Her curiosity, ability to figure out the nuances of next technologies, thoroughness and dedication to providing our clients with exceptional service make her a key member of the Casanova Ventures team.
Sabrina spent numerous years focusing on the specific needs of her consumers and adapting her learning and communication to best meet their needs. Her uncanny ability to read people, context and situations gives her the ability to not just respond to their wants, but predict their next desires.
WE STAND FOR CONNECTION
We connect people to their truth.
We connect people and ideas.
We connect the next cool technologies with the investors and corporations looking to leverage startup innovation.
We connect companies to their perfect audiences, partners, clients, employees and media opportunities.
Ask us for what you want. Seriously. What's on your wish list? It's more than likely we either have that request or are a conversation away from making it a reality.
SUCCESS IS INCREASINGLY DEPENDENT ON HOW WE INTERACT WITH OTHERS*.
The businesses and people that build authentic connections based on collaboration, reciprocity and giving succeed most. For real, research shows it.
For companies that want to drive revenue, build awareness, or gain traction, their success depends on the value of their relationships. And, if you want to monetize your business quickly, it's all about utilizing the tools that are going to get you impact with ease and grace.
There's a way to meet and partner with that perfect person or piece of your puzzle that gets your ideas into form, your products to market and your pockets fat.
There's a way to make money and making friendships that flourish tops the list.
*Check out Adam Grant's book, Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success. This is Wharton's youngest tenured professor and top rated teacher. He's got the numbers and has absolutely made the case for why supporting each other is the secret to success.