Portola Valley Partners
Joy Fairbanks is an early-stage venture investor and advisor to portfolio companies. She is experienced across sectors and verticals.
Joy is an Operating and Investment Partner at Portola Valley Partners focused on impact ventures and underrepresented founders. She will serve as General Partner of PVP’s soon to be launched Women Founders Fund.
Joy’s superpower is identifying high potential founders and guiding them to success. She specializes in customer discovery, product management, scaling, exit strategies, M&A transactions, and turnarounds.
Joy has launched and provided support to various tech incubators across the US and abroad. She is the founder of two management consulting practices.
Joy has served as an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School where she organized Columbia’s first cross-campus startup hackathon.
Joy has an MBA in finance from Columbia Business School, a Masters in International History from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Bachelors in Economics from UC Berkeley.