Alexa Binns is an investor and marketer with a talent for spotting the latest trends and technology. She learned the ropes investing at Halogen Ventures and Maven Ventures, two seed stage venture funds focused on consumer tech.Alexa has first hand experience bringing brands to market to achieve massive scale. She launched the Cheeky brand with Target, as well as two national public health campaigns with MTV, Walgreens, and the NBA. Alexa’s specialty is deploying the latest marketing techniques: she wrote her master’s thesis on how to build a brand on YouTube, was nominated for a Mashable Award for social media marketing with Foursquare, and helped sell the Twitch influencer marketing platform NoScope.