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Venture With Mo #011: Claire Diaz-Ortiz of Magma Partners on the challenges of fundraising as a woman, the Latin American venture market and the impact of covid on diverse founders

Venture With Mo

English - May 11, 2021 06:25 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MB
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Previous Episode: Venture With Mo #010: Magnus Grimeland of Antler on Southeast Asia big tech successes, The importance of resilience, Rocket Internet, building Zalora, The Antler platform and founder selection
Next Episode: Venture With Mo #012: Craig Dixon Co-founder & General Partner of Accelerating Asia on Frontier markets & investing in Bangladesh, Singapore's VC FM license, Accelerating Asia & safe notes

Episode Overview

Today is a very special episode on female founders and the Latin American market. We're joined by Claire Díaz-Ortiz investor, seasoned author and partner at Magma Partners and head of Brava. Claire and I have an absolutely fascinating conversation where we discuss:

Angel investing and a look back at Claire's first check

Ticket sizes, frequency and funding for female founders over the last few years

The impact of covid on fundraising for diverse founders

How built-in bias and social graphs affect who we fund and the opportunities we see

Venture opportunities in Latin America

Magma Partners, The Brave Initiative and funding female founders

The inherent problems with VC investor pattern matching

About Claire Díaz-Ortiz

Claire Díaz-Ortiz is an investor & bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Wired magazine once called her "The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter" and she was also named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company.

She is currently an investing partner at Magma Partners, Latin America's leading pre-seed VC fund, and leads Brava, Magma's initiative to invest in female founders in Latin America. She is also an angel investor in all geographies. Claire was an early employee at Twitter, where she was first hired to lead corporate social innovation.

About Magma Partners

Magma Partners is a seed-stage venture capital firm with offices in Latin America and California. Magma specializes in finding the best technology startups with technology and/or sales team in Latin America, but whose primary market is the United States. Since 2014, they have invested in 32 companies with teams all across Latin America.

Resources
Magma Partners: https://magmapartners.com/

Brava: https://brava.magmapartners.co

Connect With Claire Diaz-Ortiz
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairediazortiz/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Claire

Connect With Mo
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammedjalil/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/yo_jalil

Email: [email protected]

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