Bambi Roizen: Entrepreneurial Communities

Bambi Francisco Roizen is a Filipino-American entrepreneur, investor, and writer. She is founder and CEO of Vator, a community for tech entrepreneurs and investors; co-founder of Invent Health, a forum focused on digital health and managing partner of the Vator Health Fund, which invests in public and private digital healthcare companies. Ms. Francisco is also managing partner at the Vator Investment Club (VIC), equivalent to a $50M early-stage investment firm. She is a frequent speaker on innovation and entrepreneurship at universities and conferences. Prior to Vator, Ms. Francisco was an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and TV correspondent for Dow Jones MarketWatch. She covered Internet trends and investments across the public and private sectors as a contributor on technology stocks and the markets on CNBC, Fox Business News and CBS. Bambi was named to the "blue-chip" financial reporting all-star team by The Journal of Financial Reporters, the leading organization for the business news industry. Francisco-Roizen went to Rutgers for Economics and Westminster Theological Seminary for Apologetics.