Donna Novitsky currently serves as CEO of Yiftee, a company she co-founded. Depending on how you count them, Yiftee is Donna’s 3rd or 19th start-up. She is also a former partner of a top tier venture capital firm, took a startup from scratch to IPO, teaches marketing to engineers and entrepreneurs at Stanford University, and is the mother of two teenage kids.
Donna was named one of the 2014 Top 10 Women to Watch in Tech by Inc. Magazine in April 2014. She is a frequent speaker on the topic of women, entrepreneurship and investment, with recent engagements at Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford School of Engineering and the Apple Store in Soho, NYC.
Donna holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering with Distinction from Stanford University and a Harvard MBA.