Saturday suggestions time! This week I’ve decided to show my appreciation for the “She Started It” documentary directed by Nora Poggi @nora.poggi and Insiyah Saeed insiyahss 💪 Check them out on the ‘gram @shestartedit and make sure to give this one a watch to motivate you!

When I started in VC there was no community for Black Women investors. So I started one! In little over a year we went from 4 to 40+! Excited for what's to come in 2022 for Black Women in VC (BWiVC)! Interested in joining/connecting, DM me or any of the women👇🏾! #BWiVC

We know from Kauffman Fellows that there is a direct correlation between diverse cap tables and diverse founding teams. And we have come a long way with the great work of orgs like All Raise enabling the ecosystem of women funders and founders. forbes.com/sites/deenasha…

Female and non-binary founders with a product to sell, The Riveter wants to feature you in their Galentine’s Day newsletter. Great promo opportunity!

Celebrating 5 Black Financial Influencers for 2022 capway.com/learnmoney/con… via @goCapWay

i wish more founders talked about how they manage their energy day to day

Black Female Founder From Mississippi Seizes Fintech Opportunities Others Missed forbes.com/sites/geristen… via Forbes Thanks for the intro She Started It Nora + insiyahss to Sheena Allen of @goCapWay

Friday feels to Swarnali Mitra from Anthemis, Lifetise CEO, Caroline Hughes and Checkout.com’s Raluca Gagea for the amazing discussion with Nora who created the award winning documentary She Started It - full of energy and optimism for women building amazing businesses 🤩

If you're US-based woman in VC - hope you're saving the date for the All Raise Annual Summit at the end of May in SF - in person, woohoo! 🎉🪩💖 More here, registration will open soon! allraise.org/vc-summit-2022

I am FIRED UP and itching to write some checks to female founded companies 💥 Tell me who are YOU investing in (or betting on if you don't invest) that I should take a look at?

Thinking same - how many awesome ideas, great companies would be founded, people would be hired & developed, and the incredible returns that would be generated by a fresh $350m into companies founded by women & POC.

Today is a great day to remember that we must uplift all marginalized entrepreneurs and tell their stories. We started in 2013, but the world hasn't changed *that* much. shestarteditfilm.com #womenentrepreneurs #startup

I wish I'd been more eloquent here, but the point holds. We can and must stop overt sexual harassment, but that's far from the only barrier women are facing. Just as damaging are the insidious, unspoken beliefs about who is capable, who is "leader" or "founder material"...

She Started It came out in 2016, lifting the veil on many dysfunctions of the startup ecosystem. Unfortunately not much has changed. Watch the film: itunes.apple.com/us/movie/she-s… #SVB Brian Merchant

Women founders have been reaching out to me over the past 24 hours about how they don’t have permission to run their companies in Founder Mode the same way men can. This needs to change

It happened to me first — headlines portraying me as a “toxic leader” when I had to make the same, often unpopular, decisions that my male peers did without critique. For them, it’s called Founder Mode, and it’s celebrated (a proper noun! With its own merch! And trademarks

#FounderMode: in 2016, we released the 1st documentary following women building tech startups. For 3 years, we followed their struggles and successes. The film is still relevant today, when so little has changed for women founders: shestarteditfilm.com/watch