Amy Rae is a Principal at Vanedge Capital. Rae is the former Vice President & General Manager of Mobile and Social Commerce with Ziplocal (USA) where she was responsible for the development of their local search apps and new digital product rollout. Prior to that she held the position of Director of Business Development at Canpages after they acquired Ziplocal Canada. In this capacity at both companies, she leveraged her deal-making and relationship building skills to attract and broker new partnerships to enhance their online local search businesses.Amy’s previous venture capital experience was as an Associate with JLA Venture Partners (co-managing partner of the Blackberry Partners Fund) where she provided due diligence and investment candidate screening that eventually let to the financing deal that saw the formation of ZipLocal in August 2006. Prior to joining JLA, she was an Analyst with Latitude Partners, a private equity and strategic advisory firm focused on the technology sector.Amy holds a BComm with a finance specialization.