Managing Director at @Dreamit.

I work out of our NY innovation hub and run our Edtech startup accelerator program, in partnership with Penn State University.

Past startups include Bunk1 (SaaS for summer camps) and Layercake (digital memory database for busy families... as if there is any other type).

I advise Austin-based VolunteerSpot (dead-simple scheduling tools for volunteer-run events) and as well as several NY area startups.

Investments include ff Ventures, RK Ventures, Avid RP, Cardiac Concepts, Hx Technologies, SpeakLike, Wizpert, et. al.

Karen Griffith Gryga is an experienced venture capitalist, investor and entrepreneur with over 20 years of startup and emerging growth company experience. Karen is Chief Investment Officer for DreamIt. Karen is also founder of the DreamIt Athena program which focuses on female founders. DreamIt is a leading technology accelerator for entrepreneurs which has worked with and launched over 220 companies since 2008 including SeatGeek, Meerkat, LevelUp, Notehall (acquired by Chegg), Biomeme, Biobots, Parsely, MindSnacks and Adaptly. DreamIt has also launched specific initiatives in educational technology, healthcare IT (with Penn Medicine, IBC, and Johns Hopkins), and female founders (DreamIt Athena in partnership with PA DCED). The DreamIt Fund focuses primarily on the follow on investments of DreamIt companies exhibiting strong growth and traction. Dreamit Fund has been recently named as one of the Top 30 venture capital firms in the United States. We are also the 4th most active seed fund in the country.

Karen was Co-Founder and Chairman of FashInvest, an initiative focused on emerging growth entrepreneurs within Branded Goods, Fashion, Fashion Tech and Retail as well as Lipstick Wisdom, a community for mothers of children with neurological challenges.

Karen was a Founder and Partner of Liberty Venture Partners, a Philadelphia based venture fund established in 1997 with $150 million under management as well as Executive Director of MAG, The Mid-Atlantic Angel Group, which has two angel funds under management.

Karen holds a MBA in decision analysis from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania (with Distinction). At the same time as Wharton, Karen obtained a Masters in Computer Science from the Moore School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Karen earned her Bachelor of Science degree in computer science (Phi Beta Kappa) from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.