Gina Bianchini

Gina Bianchini is an investor and the CEO and co-founder of Mighty Networks. She founded the company in 2017 with Tim Herby and Thomas Aaron. Prior to Mighty Networks, she co-founded Ning with Marc Andreessen in 2004 and served as CEO until 2010 when she then became Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). As CEO of Ning, Bianchini grew the company rapidly to serve 100M people around the world before it was acquired in 2011 by Glam Media for an estimated $150 million.

Prior to Ning, Bianchini was co-founder and president of Harmonic Communications, an early advertising tracking, measurement, and optimization software company backed by Sequoia Capital and acquired by Dentsu. Early in her career she worked at CKS Group and Goldman Sachs.

Bianchini serves on the board of Empower LTD and TEGNA and served on the board of Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. from 2012-2018. Bianchini has also been featured in Fortune Magazine’s “40 under 40” and Huffington Post’s ten technology “Ultimate Game Changers.”

Bianchini has made private investments in Mighty Networks, Commsor, Aside, Squad, and Levo, exiting Squad, which was acquired by Twitter in 2020.

Bianchini earned both an MBA in General Business Administration and Management in 2000 and a BA in Political Science in 1994 from Stanford University.