The future of entrepreneurship starts here, and the Wocstar Planner is your accountability partner in ensuring your financial health and your
readiness to be part of the groundbreaking idea for economic transformation. Discover how one revolutionary approach is dismantling barriers
and rewriting the rules of wealth creation. Through strategic investments, cutting-edge education, and powerful storytelling, a new generation of
underrepresented entrepreneurs is rising—and they’re not just building businesses, they’re building generational wealth and lasting change.
From boardrooms to media studios, from venture capital to community organizations, witness the three-pillar strategy that’s amplifying diverse voices,
funding bold innovation, and proving that when we change who gets capital, we change everything.
For boundary-pushing innovators, investors, creatives, and allies ready to be part of the solution, this is more than a Journal—it’s a blueprint for revolution. Write it. Believe it. Do it! Change the Capital Flow. Change the World.
The future of entrepreneurship starts here, and the Wocstar Planner is your accountability partner in ensuring your financial health and your
readiness to be part of the groundbreaking idea for economic transformation. Discover how one revolutionary approach is dismantling barriers
and rewriting the rules of wealth creation. Through strategic investments, cutting-edge education, and powerful storytelling, a new generation of
underrepresented entrepreneurs is rising—and they’re not just building businesses, they’re building generational wealth and lasting change.
From boardrooms to media studios, from venture capital to community organizations, witness the three-pillar strategy that’s amplifying diverse voices,
funding bold innovation, and proving that when we change who gets capital, we change everything.
For boundary-pushing innovators, investors, creatives, and allies ready to be part of the solution, this is more than a Journal—it’s a blueprint for revolution. Write it. Believe it. Do it! Change the Capital Flow. Change the World.
Gayle Jennings-O’Byrne, the CEO of the venture firm Wocstar Capital, is widely recognized as a trailblazer in venture capital with over 30 years of Wall Street and tech experience. Through its early-stage funds, Wocstar is investing in leading-edge tech companies. Named one of Forbes’ 50 Over 50: Investing (2024), The New York Times' 10 Women Changing the Landscape of Leadership (2021), one of Business Insider’s Top Black Venture Capitalists (2024), and among Venture Capital Journal’s Top 10 Women of Influence in Venture Capital (2022).
Gayle is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business and the University of Michigan. She began her career at Sun Microsystems and later worked in mergers and acquisitions at JPMorgan. She has served on Tri Delta’s Foundation Board of Trustees and was formerly President of The Nantucket Project Academy. Her board service has also included Women.NYC, and BE.NYC (Black Entrepreneurs NYC) through NYC Small Business Services. Gayle received the 2022 U.S. Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2021 Tri Delta Woman of Achievement Award.
Gayle is also an Associate Producer of Thoughts of a Colored Man on Broadway and an investor in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf, which was nominated for seven Tony Awards. She splits her time between Arizona, California, and New York, where she lives with her husband and family.
