The Secret Ingredient to Latin America’s Outsized Venture Capital Returns? Women
New Data Shows that Latin America Takes the Global Lead in Venture Capital Directed to Female Co-Founders Despite a Lack of Female Investing Partners Originally published in TechCrunch by Claire Diaz-Ortiz, with Research Support from Gene Teare at Crunchbase and Kaben...
Why Female Investors are Driving the Rise of Investor-Market Fit
Over the past few months, I have been head-down in research into the effects of the (slow) rise in female investors in the Venture Capital world. In dozens of interviews with startup founders and other investors, I have seen the effects of what it means to bring more...The Rise of FemTech is a Story of Female Founders, Female Investors, and a Whole Lot of Resilience
How the Femtech Boom is Bringing Resilience Innovation to Market Claire Diaz-Ortiz When Amy Divaraniya was trying to get pregnant with her son, she did everything right. She ate all the foods, she took all the supplements, and she downloaded all the apps. But as a...The Unicorns of Silicon Aires, Argentina
As a Silicon Valley-born investor living in “Silicon Aires”, it frustrates me to no end when people underestimate the incredible innovations in emerging markets like Latin America. It’s clearly every investor’s prerogative to decide where they...
The 100 Books I Read in 2019
As I’ve said before, for nearly a decade I’ve set reading goals each year. For many years that goal was 100, and I’d usually exceed it by a dozen or so. In 2012, I decided to up the goal to 150, and in 2013 I upped it further to 200 (and...
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