Conscience

WHO WE ARE

Conscience is an early-stage fund pioneering the intersection of consumer and science. Conscience was founded by Ariana Thacker in 2020 with the mission to have a positive and scalable impact on the world by partnering with technical founders.

$10,000,000

TARGET SIZE OF FUNDS

Sector

Healthcare, Biotech

Stage

Seed, Pre-Seed

Region

North America

Countries

Founder(s)

Ariana Thacker

Ariana Thacker is the Founding Partner of Conscience VC, an early-stage fund pioneering the intersection of consumer and science. Ariana is a technical investor with a portfolio of 30+ companies alongside leading investors. She graduated with honors from UCLA in chemical engineering, with technical expertise spanning Fortune 500 companies to early-stage start-ups. She is a community leader for diversity, with tenure as President of Society of Women Engineers, Founder of congressionally-recognized philanthropic organization, and 50% of the companies in her broader portfolio led by diverse and female founders. Conscience currently has a portfolio ~80% underrepresented founders. Conscience is an early-stage fund pioneering the intersection of consumer and science. We are actively investing in companies that meet the following criteria: technically defensible, science-led business, solving a real problem for consumers, at the pre-seed & seed stages.

TBDF Ventures LLC (TBDFV), the organizer of Beyond The Billion (BTB), is a company serving the global consortium of investors pledged to invest beyond $1bn collectively into women-founded technology companies and funds and firms that invest in them. BTB builds on the success of The Billion Dollar Fund for Women, the initial campaign co-founded by our founders. BTB is not a venture fund, an investment bank, a broker-dealer, investment clearinghouse, or an investment adviser, but rather a forum in which investors may be educated on aspects of investment and business, as well as introduced to companies for possible investment, in particular, those led by women. Each investor and allocator pledged to BTB’s mission is responsible for his or her own investment decisions, and neither TBDFV nor BTB recommends companies or financial products for investment. Participating funds may be highlighted to various institutional and other investors and managers, with the aim of catalyzing capital towards women-founded companies; but are not guaranteed allocations from any specific fund. The Founders of TBDFV and BTB may hold interests directly or indirectly in featured funds and associated companies. Information is obtained from participant funds, believed to be reliable, but is in no way guaranteed by TBDFV or BTB. No guarantee of any kind is implied or possible where projections of future conditions are attempted.