Melissa Gundling D'Elia
InvestorVice President, Community at Heartland Ventures · Vice President at Heartland Ventures S7
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Experience
- Heartland VenturesVice Presidentcurrent2025 — present
- Brookline Capital MarketsVice President2024 — 2025New York, United States
- AddeparPrivate Placements Associate - Acervus Securities2021 — 2024
- AddeparProduct Marketing Manager - Marketplace2019 — 2021New York, New York, United States
- AddeparSales and Marketing Specialist2017 — 2019New York, New York, United States
- Herrick, Feinstein LLPEvents and Business Development2016 — 2017Greater New York City Area
- Arts & Business Council of New YorkDiversity in Arts Leadership Intern2015New York, New York, United States
- Capital City MillworkOperations2010 — 2015Westerville, Ohio, United States
Skills & more
Family OfficesCapital RaisingSecondariesFundraisingSeries 7SalesHNWVenture CapitalFinancial Services63 Licenses
- X15 Member — Refinery Ventures
- Series 63 — FINRA
- Series 7 — FINRA
- Notary Public — The State of New York
From Melissa's professional profile.
Colleagues at Heartland Ventures
Braden Lambros
Partner, Community at Heartland Ventures
Conor McGuinness
Partner at Heartland Ventures
Dan Reilly
Principal, Portfolio Operations at Heartland Ventures
Daniel Corbett
Principal at Heartland Ventures
Gavin Fox
Director, Private Equity at Heartland Ventures
Hannah Milgrom
Executive Assistant at Heartland Ventures
Koby Doughty
Associate, Revenue Operations at Heartland Ventures
Lucas Pasch
Principal, Venture Capital at Heartland Ventures
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Melissa Gundling D'Elia?
- Vice President, Community at Heartland Ventures
- Where does Melissa Gundling D'Elia work?
- Melissa Gundling D'Elia is Vice President, Community at Heartland Ventures.
- Where did Melissa Gundling D'Elia go to school?
- Melissa Gundling D'Elia studied at University of South Carolina (Dual Bachelor of Arts Degrees); Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici (Study Abroad); Olentangy High School.
Same school
Also attended University of South Carolina47
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Also attended Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici8
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Also attended Case Western Reserve University75
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Shared employers
Also worked at Brookline Capital Markets1
Also worked at Addepar31
Joe LonsdaleFounder & Managing Partner of 8VC; co-founder of Palantir and AddeparAlexandr WangCo-founder of Scale AI; Chief AI Officer at MetaScott WuCo-founder & CEO of CognitionKaren WhiteInvestment Team at 8VCDavid J. BlumbergFounder and Managing Partner of Blumberg CapitalBobby YazdaniFounder & Managing Partner at Cota Capital
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