Redefining Venture Capital: The Untapped Potential of Women Investors with the Founder of How Women Invest, Julie Castro Abrams
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In this eye-opening episode, we dive deep into the world of Venture Capital and explore the untapped potential of women investors.
Julie Castro Abrams is the Founder and Managing Partner of How Women Invest, an early stage venture firm focussed on high growth, tech enabled women-founded enterprises.
Despite women-led startups generating 10% more in cumulative revenue over a five-year period, only 1.9% of venture capital dollars went to female founders in 2022.
Thamina and Julie discuss the reasons behind this disparity and how high net worth women can be recruited as Angel investors and Limited Partners in Venture Capital funds to help bridge the gap.
With How Women Lead and How Women Invest, Julie has built a network of 17,000 top executive women, who are now investing as a community, 50% of them being women of color.
For the first time ever, we have a huge volume of women with 30 years of work experience, with power, influence, and some wealth and as Julie likes to put it: “We’re not going to wait for other people to break down barriers for us.”
Julie and Thamina also open up about their relationships with their Latino partners and talk about how initiatives like Latina In Sight are challenging cultural stereotypes and creating opportunities for women in the Latin community.
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