Media Kit · 2026Strategic Advisor · Investor · Founder · Facilitator · Writer
Building connections that move people, capital, and ideas forward.
Mandy Bynum is a strategic advisor, investor, facilitator, and founder working at the intersection of capital, entrepreneurship, leadership, and community wealth. From Silicon Valley and venture capital to nonprofit leadership and institution building, her work focuses on connecting people, ideas, and resources to create new possibilities for ownership and economic power.
A Career Across Capital, Leadership & Community
Mandy Bynum, in profile
Mandy's career began inside Silicon Valley's technology companies — Yelp, SurveyMonkey, New Relic — where she learned how platforms, people, and capital shape one another.
As CEO of BLCK VC, she moved from operating inside the system to reshaping who participates in it. Today she invests as a Limited Partner, advises founders, funds, and institutions, and serves on boards across venture-backed companies and nonprofits.
With Sanctum Foundation, that work becomes institution building: expanding access to wealth, ownership, and capital — and asking how communities can hold economic power together.
- Founder
- Sanctum Foundation
- Former CEO
- BLCK VC
- Investor
- Limited Partner in venture capital funds
- Strategic Advisor
- Founders, funds, and institutions
- Board Leadership
- Venture-backed companies and nonprofit organizations
- Technology
- Yelp, SurveyMonkey, and New Relic
- Recognition
- Power100 Outstanding Advocate in Asset Management, 2025
The Work
Mandy Bynum
Strategic Advisory · Investing · Facilitation
Advising founders, investment institutions, and organizational leaders while designing experiences that connect people, strategy, and opportunity.
mandybynum.com ↗
Sanctum Foundation
Wealth · Ownership · Community
A nonprofit reimagining how communities participate in wealth, innovation, and leadership through education, relationships, and collective practice.
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Re:Wealth
Writing · Ideas · Conversations
Essays and conversations exploring the intersections of wealth, identity, ownership, power, and collective possibility.
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In the Conversation
Selected media, writing, interviews, and public conversations.
Founder Profile / Interview
Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center · November 2025
Faces of Entrepreneurship: Mandy Bynum, Sanctum Foundation
A conversation about entrepreneurship, collective wealth, community building, and the founding of Sanctum.
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Podcast Interview
Black to Business
The Current State & Future for Black Investors
A conversation about venture capital, Black investors, and expanding participation in investment ecosystems.
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Essays & Commentary
Re:Wealth · Ongoing
Essays on ownership, power & collective possibility
Original writing and conversations on ownership, wealth, power, leadership, and collective possibility.
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Connect
mandy@mandybynum.comEmail Mandy →For Media & Event Organizers
Bio, headshot, and booking for interviews, podcasts, and speaking.
Short Bio
Mandy Bynum is a strategic advisor, investor, facilitator, and founder whose career spans technology, venture capital, nonprofit leadership, and community wealth building. A former CEO of BLCK VC, she is the founder of Sanctum Foundation, where she is building new pathways to wealth, ownership, and collective economic power.