Welcome to the Bright Lights, Baby.
Bright Lights. Big City. Smart Women.
At 11am exactly in Times Square, Nasdaq’s giant screen featured 32 Latinas in VC in honor of International Women’s Day. This spotlight needs to shine broadly because there are so many talented women innovators and capital allocators not yet sufficiently noticed.
I would like to introduce you to some of these impressive women.
#1. The sister in the glitter. Laura Lucas, GP of L'ATTITUDE VENTURES ($100 million AUM) and Co-Founder of Libra Leaders, is an example of a successful person who truly values enabling others. Laura is a visionary who executes well. Her journey as a 2x founder, market maker, venture capitalist, and community organizer is an impressive one.
Co-investors, this sister can spot value. Founders, Laura knows exits. As MD of New Listings and Capital Markets at NASDAQ, Laura helped close the IPOs of Lyft , Beyond Meat, Airbnb, and The RealReal by offering impressive above and beyond services to these companies to enhance their values. When the CEO of RealReal asked her how many other women-owned companies had gone public, Laura could only find 20 in NASDAQ’s then 30 year history. Laura launched Libra Leaders with Stephanie Michael Silva and Cecilia Sanchez to tip the scales of capital to early stage women entrepreneurs whose underrepresentation is not merited.
Monica Brand Engel, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Quona Capital ($800 million AUM) focuses on inclusive tech in emerging markets. She advises founders to fight for things you care about in a way that will lead others to join you.
Miriam Rivera, CEO, Co-Founder, and MD of Ulu Ventures ($400 million AUM) with 10 unicorns in its portfolio including Palantir Technologies and SoFi, notes that entrepreneurs live to solve problems with hearts, minds, spirit, and hands to make a difference.
Noramay Cadena, Managing Partner of Supply Change Capital ($50 million AUM) talks about building mini-ecosystems of people supporting each other. Yes! We can achieve more enabling each other.
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Get acquainted with some of the amazing high-achieving, community focused women with whom I have the absolute privilege and good fortune of being associated in the book, Latinas in VC.
“We can create vast venture capital ecosystems offering the opportunity and vision currently lacking for founders,” Laura Moreno Lucas shares in Latinas in VC.
Enabling innovation and capturing market opportunities is about creating lasting relationships with thoughtful people with a bias towards action.
These women are just that. Read about them. Empower them and they will give back a hundred fold to our communities and innovation ecosystem.