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From CIO to VC: Marina Levinson on Vertical AI, Startup Bridges & Board Leadership

From CIO to VC: Marina Levinson on Vertical AI, Startup Bridges & Board Leadership

Update: 2025-09-26
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Marina Levinson shares her journey from CIO to venture investor to startup advisor, revealing the skills, relationships, and mindset shifts needed to thrive across roles, how her experience as a tech buyer sharpened her investment approach, how she built bridges between enterprise executives and startups, and highlights such as how CIOs can play a bigger role in innovation ecosystems, why BGV invests in vertical AI rather than infrastructure, lessons from AiDASH, COVU, and Interactly.ai, what makes a solution “must-have” vs. “nice-to-have”, and advice for executives pursuing public or private board roles.

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From CIO to VC: Marina Levinson on Vertical AI, Startup Bridges & Board Leadership

From CIO to VC: Marina Levinson on Vertical AI, Startup Bridges & Board Leadership

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