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Meng is an award-winning brand, product, and experience designer helping clients large and small reach their business goals.
Meng has helped corporate clients including Anheuser-Busch InBev and Aetna launch brands in new markets. She has also led product strategy, design, and branding at technology startups in e-commerce, social media, travel, security, and payments.
Meng has won awards with Adobe (Creative Jam People’s Choice Award), Facebook (Innovation Competition: Era of the Newsfeed), and Ben & Jerry’s (Millennial Advisory Board). Meng was part of a 5-person UX special ops team during the 2014 TED Conference, working with speakers including Simon Sinek to bring ideas into action. Her work has been published in Ellen Lupton’s definitive guide Type of Screen.
She is a speaker for HOW Design, VentureOut, and Lean UX conference, lectures at Startup Institute, advisor for Newark Venture Partners, and mentors/judges for AngelHack and Startup Weekend.
Excited to discuss new opportunities to collaborate: hey@mynameismeng.com 
Soraya is a Founder and Managing Partner of TMV – a global early-stage venture firm with 200 million in AUM across TMV Funds I-III and TMV: Lifecycles – a firm that backs innovation reshaping legacy industries.
Soraya built the firm to enable breakthrough entrepreneurs with the capital and go-to-market expertise required to reach a major inflection point of growth. She has invested in over 100 startups in her career, including Anthropic, FIGS, Cityblock Health, Kindbody, Roon, Forta Health, Ridwell, Casper, Hungryroot, Clockwise, Scope3, Mavely, Yoke, Millie Clinic, Portcast, Bridge Money, Topline Pro, Tutored by Teachers, Fi, Freightify, Smalls, Gimlet Media at early rounds of financing. Pre-IPO, Cloudflare.
Soraya began her career at The New York Times, where she positioned the global news leader on social networks such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, partnered with startups large and small, and established award-winning campaigns. She went on to co-found the application Foodspotting, named by Apple and Wired Magazine as an “App of the Year," later acquired by OpenTable, then Priceline.
She graduated with high honors from Georgetown University and completed the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century program at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Soraya currently serves on the Board of Directors for Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and lives in New York City with her family.
Speaking | Media | Awards:
* Featured on the cover of Fast Company Magazine's “100 Most Creative People in Business” issue
* Featured on the the cover of Brand Week’s "Digital Best” issue
* Inc. Magazine "30 Under 30" (2012)
* Fortune Magazine "40 Under 40: Women to Watch" (2015)
* Georgetown University "GEMA" Award for Investor of the Year (2023-2024)
* World Economic Forum "Young Global Leader" (2014-2021)
* Four-time featured speaker at The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland (2016, 2018, 2020)
* Profiled on the homepage of Morgan Stanley for founding TMV (2020)
* 15 years of professional keynote speaking with The American Program Bureau (2010-2025)
* Thrice named “Mentor of the Year" at TechStars New York (2009, 2010, 2014)
* Founder of the global network of women emerging fund managers, "Transact Global" (2017-present)
* Two-time host of "Business Schooled - a Podcast by Synchrony," a "Top 20 Business Podcast" on Apple - for which she traveled the United States interviewing persevering founders. (2019, 2020) 
