Number of Portfolio Companies 3
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 4
  • Primary Job Title President
  • Primary Organization 
    Instacart
  • Investor Type  Individual/Angel

Carolyn Everson is the Vice President of Global Business Group at Facebook, where she leads Facebook’s relationships with its top marketers and agencies across the globe. Carolyn oversees a team of regional leaders, and the teams focused on global partnerships, global agencies and Facebook’s Creative Shop.

Prior to Facebook, Carolyn was the

Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Global Advertising Sales and Trade Marketing Teams. Carolyn led the company’s advertising business across Bing, MSN, Windows Live, Mobile, Faming, Atlas and the Microsoft Media Network. Carolyn also spent seven years at MTV Networks. Her last role was as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of U.S. Ad Sales for MTV Networks where she oversaw strategic planning, operations, and finance for MTVN’s U.S. Ad Sales department. She also was responsible for MTVN’s Direct Response business and the cross platform, cross brand strategic sales and marketing group called Generator.

Carolyn holds a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts and communications from Villanova University where she graduated Summa Cum Laude. She also obtained a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard where she was a Baker Scholar. Carolyn has been named a Woman to Watch and Fortune included her on the 40 under 40 list two years in a row. Carolyn is also on the Board of Directors of Hertz Global Holdings, Inc; serves on the Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Board; is a board member of the Effies and an advisor to Luma Partners. She resides in Montclair, New Jersey with her husband Doug and twin daughters Taylor and Kennedy.

Number of Investments 3
Carolyn Everson has made 3 investments. Their latest investment was Seed Round - Unitary on Mar 7, 2023, when Unitary raised
£6.7M
.
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Mar 7, 2023
Unitary
Seed Round - Unitary
£6.7M
Nov 16, 2022
Virtualness
Seed Round - Virtualness
$8M
Jun 20, 2021
Bitwise
Series B - Bitwise
$70M
Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 8
Carolyn Everson is the President at Instacart. Additionally, Carolyn Everson has had 8 past jobs including Vice President of Global Business Group at Meta.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Meta
Vice President of Global Business GroupMar 2011Aug 2021
Microsoft
Corporate VP, Global Advertising Sales and Trade Marketing2010Feb 1, 2011
VIACOM PARAMOUNT on contract at CBS PARAMOUNT+
COO, EVP MTVN Ad Sales20042010
Primedia Business Magazines & Media
VP20012004
Zagat
Vice President, Business Development19992001
The Walt Disney Company
Manager, Business Development19961997
Accenture
Analyst19931995
MTV
Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of U.S. Ad Sales
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 4
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 2
Carolyn Everson holds 4 board and advisor roles including Unitary at Unitary, Member of the Board of Directors at DonorsChoose, and Member of the Advisory Board at LUMA Partners.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Hertz
Member of the Board of Directors, Hertz Global Holdings
Effie Worldwide
Member of the Board of Directors
Carolyn Everson studied at Villanova University and Harvard Business School.
Number of News Articles 218
Funding RoundMar 7, 2023
Unitary raised £6,700,000 / Seed from Carolyn Everson and 2 other investors
Funding RoundNov 16, 2022
Virtualness raised $8,000,000 / Seed from Arjun Purkayastha and 19 other investors
Funding RoundJun 20, 2021
Bitwise raised $70,000,000 / Series B from Abby Adlerman and 43 other investors
NewsJun 30, 2020
NewsJan 8, 2020