Amanda Eilian is a Partner and co-founder of __able Partners, a venture capital firm focused on fast growing companies in the Positive Living space. With over 50 companies in the portfolio, __able’s investments include Bumble (NASDAQ:BMBL), Goop, Daily Harvest, Spring Health, Maven, Compass Pathways (NASDAQ:CMPS) and ATAI Life Sciences (NASDAQ: ATAI).

Amanda was previously the co-founder of Videolicious, an enterprise software video creation platform backed by Amazon, and served as its President until it was acquired by Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP).  Under Amanda’s leadership, Videolicious grew to over 5 million users in 103 countries, including Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, Walmart, SAP, Verizon and GE.  Prior to forming Videolicious, Amanda was a founding partner of Capitol Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition vehicle (SPAC) that completed a $265 million initial public offering and became Two Harbors Investment Corp. (NYSE: TWO).  TWO grew to over $4.4 billion of market capitalization (including a spin-off) to become the third largest mortgage REIT in the United States.  Amanda began her career in private equity and mergers and acquisitions.  

Amanda is a Truman Scholar and received her MBA from Harvard Business School where she was a Baker Scholar, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service with Honors in Economics.  Amanda serves on the Board of Directors of Juice Beauty and the Melanoma Research Alliance.