Elizabeth Rounsavall

“The future is already here; it’s just unevenly distributed.” – William Gibson

Elizabeth is a real estate and venture capital investor with over fifteen years of experience working with entrepreneurs and startups. Currently a partner at Rounsavall Investments, she spent 10 years at Chrysalis Ventures, then Kentucky’s largest venture capital firm, and prior to that was a management consultant with Booz & Co (now part of PwC). In 2017 she was awarded “Mentor of the Year” by the Kentucky Entrepreneur Hall of Fame.

She supports the Louisville entrepreneurial ecosystem through serving as a selection panelist for the Vogt Awards, judging pitch competitions, directly mentoring startups, participating in angel networks and co-leading seed funds. She is a former president of the Actors Theatre of Louisville board of trustees and was a co-founder of Louisville’s annual Maker Faire event which launched in 2013. A boomerang Louisville native, she has an MBA from MIT Sloan and a BA from Yale University.