Profile

Mandy Bynum is a strategic advisor, LP investor, and ecosystem builder whose career spans venture capital, startup growth, nonprofit leadership, and economic development rooted in collective care.

As the founder of  Sanctum Foundation, she connects corporate leaders with founders, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, artists, and interdisciplinary innovators to build and sustain pathways to wealth long denied to our communities. Her work centers on collective care, ancestral wisdom, and the ongoing practice of deconditioning from oppressive systems.

Mandy brings deep sales leadership experience from early roles at Yelp and SurveyMonkey—both through IPOs—and has led nonprofits as CEO and Board member, including BLCK VC. She serves on the boards of VC-backed private companies and has helped raise millions in philanthropic and venture capital, focusing on liberatory wealth-building..

Her investment philosophy is grounded in relationship, reciprocity, and returns beyond capital, with a strong belief that creative, inclusive ecosystems produce the most transformative outcomes.