Joy Marcus

Joy is Co-Founder and General Partner of The 98, an early-stage venture firm that invests in women-led technology businesses. Leveraging her experience in digital transformation, she works closely with early-stage companies that seek to disrupt industry with SaaS and other tech platforms. She is also a Lecturer at the Keller Center at Princeton University’s School of Engineering, where she teaches the university’s foundational class on entrepreneurship. Joy spent two decades as a digital media and commerce leader, culminating in her role as EVP and General Manager of Digital Video at Condé Nast Entertainment, overseeing twenty properties, including Vogue, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair, a “masthead” level position at those properties. Joy also spent three years as a Venture Partner at Gotham Ventures, a Draper Fisher Jurvetson network fund. 
 
Joy is on the board of publicly listed ad tech company Perion (NASD: PERI), where she chairs the Compensation Committee and serves on the Audit and Nominating & Governance Committees. She also holds board positions at a number of privately held, venture backed companies including Muso, Stratyfy, Strella Biotechnology, Humanitru and Break Sports.

Joy has been named to The Hollywood Reporter’s Digital Power 50, Forbes’ Forty over Forty, Crain’s Women to Watch, and A Woman of Power and Influence by the National Organization for Women (NOW).

Joy earned and AB, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University and her law degree from New York University School of Law. She serves on the board of MOUSE (bringing tech education to public schools). She and her husband raised two children in the West Village and eastern Long Island.