Gates, Allison Baum: - Allison Baum Gates, a general partner at the early-stage venture capital fund Semper Virens, has spent her career at the intersection of VC and the future of work. She served as an analyst on the Manhattan trading floor of Goldman Sachs, worked at General Assembly (sold to Adecco for $413M in 2018), co-founded global seed fund Fresco Capital, and was an investor at Trinity Ventures. In addition to speaking at a variety of industry conferences around the globe and appearances on BloombergTV and Cheddar TV, Gates teaches venture capital at Columbia Business School and UC Berkeley-Haas.