Madeline Minshew

Madeline is a Partner and Head of Founder Experience at True Ventures, where she leads the firm's founder experience and success efforts across a community of more than 450 founders.

She came to venture through operating. At Handshake, a True portfolio company, she was VP of People and Talent, helping scale the team behind what has become the leading career network for the AI economy. Before that, she built teams and operations at Cadre, Tumblr, and Google — a career spent inside high-growth companies at their most formative moments.

Madeline believes founders build best when they are surrounded by the right people at the right time. To that end, she and her team design the programs, gatherings, and infrastructure that connect True Founders to the insights, relationships, and resources that matter most — from CEO Summits and Builder Days to Connected Stack, True's flagship conference on the future of enterprise technology. She sees community not as a nice-to-have but as the foundation of a trusted network founders lean on through every stage of their journey.

Outside of True, Madeline is a San Francisco native who spent much of her childhood in Paris and her early career in New York after graduating from Barnard College of Columbia University. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, two children, and a spunky yet anxious goldendoodle. Her goal is to read one book a week — ask her for her latest fiction read and you'll get a passionate, emphatic recommendation.