Are you a diverse tech founder seeking capital and mentorship support for your startup?

A massive amount of talent is dying on the vine when 2.2% of all VC funding goes to female founding teams and less than 2% to racially diverse founders.

Yasmin Cruz Ferrine is changing the playing field for diverse founders. She's the General Partner at Visible Hands VC, a pre-seed fund dedicated to diverse tech founders.

Their 14-week, virtual-first fellowship program supports overlooked talent in building technology startups by providing company-building services and investments of up to $200k.

Each founder receives meaningful funding, support with finding a co-founder, and access to an incredible network of advisors, customers, and investors.

Yasmin has 15 years of experience leading philanthropic investment strategies and advising foundations, responsible for deploying over $1 billion.

She has served as Finance Director for Governor Deval Patrick’s TogetherFUND and 2020 presidential campaign, and she’s led New England business development at Brown Advisory where she streamlined the addition of $980M in assets under management.

Yasmin began her career as a small-cap value equity analyst and remains dedicated to enabling sector-wide deep impact on our most pressing social challenges through board work at well-known Boston organizations.

She has been named a “Top 100 Influential Massachusetts Latino” by El Planeta, a “Name You Should Know” by Alliance for Business Leadership, and a “Top 25 Emerging Leader of Color” by Get Konnected!.

Yasmin candidly shares:

* why she felt called to leave her corporate career to serve diverse founders via a VC investment fund
* how a VC fund is formed, the process of raising money for the fund, building peer-to-peer partnerships and having references (fascinating insights!!)
* why the team chose a 14-week fellowship model for the fund
* the paper cuts many diverse founders get when raising capital
* why it's important to know "investor love language"
* the filter Visible Hands VC uses for their 14-week fellowship
* why inclusion improves innovation
* the often seen condition called "over mentored and undercapitalized" - STITCH THAT ON A PILLOW!

To learn more about Visible Hands VC, please visit: https://www.visiblehands.vc/​
Apply to their 14-week fellowship here: https://www.visiblehands.vc/fellowship​

Please connect with Visible Hands VC and Yasmin via:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/visiblehands/​
Twitter: https://twitter.com/visiblehandsvc​
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/visi...​
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasmincru...​

Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!

Ande Lyons
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