Roseanne Wincek
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Roseanne is a venture capitalist, early-stage startup founder and operator, scientist, and co-founder of Renegade Partners. Prior to starting Renegade with Renata Quintini in 2020, Roseanne helped high-growth companies scale as a Partner at the late stage venture firm, IVP. She has invested in both enterprise and consumer companies, including Glossier, Compass (COMP), Wise (LSE:WISE), Looker (Acquired by Google), Motive, and MasterClass, where she continues to serve on the board. Before IVP, she was a Principal at Canaan Partners, investing in companies including MetaCloud (acquired by CSCO), Unifi Software (acquired by Boomi/Dell), and Turo.
Roseanne was a PhD candidate in Biophysics at UC Berkeley, where she also earned her MA (Biophysics) and BS (Chemistry) degrees. She earned her MBA from Stanford University. Her career in technology started when she dropped out of her PhD to co-found music technology startup, imthemusic, building apps on the early Facebook platform. She also served as product manager at the life science data platform, NextBio (acquired by Ilumina). Roseanne hails from Cleveland, Ohio, is one of six siblings, and roots for Cal at Big Game. In her free time, she also enjoys pretending to code and breaking the Renegade website.