Motivated to Lead Podcast - Mark Klingsheim

Author: Mark Klingsheim

Motivated to Lead is a podcast designed to help you grow and become a better leader. We interview leaders in business and the non-profit world. Listen each week as we have guests share lessons learned in their career and in life to help you whether you are a new leader or a seasoned leader. Our topics include leadership, career management and how to make great people decisions.
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Pamela York, Co-Founder & General Partner, Capita3 (replay)
Episode 337
Thursday, 8 October, 2026

This week, we revisit our interview with Pamela York. Pam is an investor and serial entrepreneur with extensive success from launch to exit in technology-based companies. She's the co-founder and Managing Partner of Capita3 Ventures, an early-stage venture capital group investing in women-led startups with game-changing health innovations. Over her career, she's been involved in more than 50 new company launches, with a dozen acquisitions or IPOs to date, and serves on numerous boards. Previously, Pam pioneered three technology platforms that were successfully commercialized and co-founded two VC-backed startups, each with an exit, including one with a highly successful IPO. She also led the University of Iowa's technology commercialization foundation, where she oversaw a portfolio of 1000 technologies concentrated in life sciences and built a startup pipeline from scratch, attracting hundreds of millions in venture capital financing and numerous exits to date. Pam has 20 years of training in transformative leader growth. She applies awareness-based leader training to develop founders into top CEO's, featured at TEDx in 2018, and also delivered to healthcare leaders and innovators at Mayo Clinic. Pam is a mentor or advisor for Techstars, Revolution, NSF I-CORPSTM, Medical Alley, and others. She has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and completed private equity financing at Wharton.