Amanda_robs Cc First Close Partners - we’ve invested as LPs in 40 venture capital funds that are led by underrepresented managers. We’re 🤔 of sharing a public list of the funds we’ve backed so that founders, co investors, boards, other LPs can easily find some great VC funds to access. Thoughts?

There are the same number of female VC partners in all of Europe as... ...the number of male VC partners in Poland alone. 🤯 Thanks Kinga Stanislawska and Amy Lewin for this eye-opening comparison. Hard to fix the funding gap without addressing this.

inspired watching Backstage Capital's Arlan 👊🏾 interview Jurnee Smollett "How do we build our own damn table" "Your integrity is not for sale"

Today @Cartainc announced their investment in RareBreed Ventures. For more info, here is Carta's memo of our fund - carta.com/carta-ventures… If you are interested go to rarebreed.vc and click "Become an LP". Min investment is 25K that can be broken up over 2 years

Profile of our friend and backer, Enke Bashllari, PhD of @ArkitektVenture in WSJ Venture Capital. Enke has also taken a lead in DEI efforts for years.

Today I’m excited to announce the close of our $50M first fund at Collab Capital! Huge thank you to our incredible team, LPs, portfolio companies and everyone who encouraged us along the way! Lots of work ahead, but thrilled about this milestone! medium.com/capital-innova…

Jewel Burks Solomon Congratulations! So excited for you folks and what this brings to the Atlanta ecosystem. 🙌🏾

#MisteeWantsToKnow just finished this program. It was great because I was able to ask investors questions in an informal setting. I learned a lot. Highly recommend. #VentureCrushFG Ed Zimmerman Christie Pitts 💫 VentureCrushFG

Jewel Burks Solomon So psyched for COLLAB Jewel Burks Solomon Congrats on closing the fund & thank you for allowing First Close Partners to be an LP in your fund! cc my First Close partners: Theresia Gouw Betsy Zimmerman Regina Benjamin, MD Josh Kopelman Pär-Jörgen Pärson

First close partners on the cap table... kudos and thx for allowing us to invest in COLLAB

As a Trustee of BlackWomenTalkTech & cofounder of First Close Partners & the venture capital practice Lowenstein Sandler, I’m pleased to see all 3 of those merge in this tweet from Shila Nieves Burney RE: Zane Venture Fund ! Congrats on putting millions of 💵 in the tank for your VC fund! Proud to invest!

VCFamilia cherylcampos.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇵🇪 Carolina 🇵🇪 🇺🇸 @mxcrosado Chongboi Changsan Afore Capital BLCK VC Village Capital @RallyCapGlobal SheWorx All Raise We have so much respect for the extraordinary Carolina 🇵🇪 🇺🇸 - we have known her for many years & she is extraordinary! See below April 2017 VentureCrushSF VentureCrushFG w/ Ed Zimmerman Sydney Ulili Onovakpuri Kara Nortman bethferreira

Arlan 👊🏾 I played 🎹 in a Japanese documentary about Steinway & Sons (I don’t know how to play piano) & separately had a police escort as I walked a brown paper bag of cash through a parking lot

LPs commit 100s of $millions to Hedge Fund turned 1st time VC Index Fund w/ no unique thesis, no value add, outsourced DD to consultants, meets Founder once & overpays to “win” LPs put Black, LatinX, & Women led VC Funds thru countless mtngs for a < $5M commit Fix This = Fix VC

We First Close Partners are proud to have invested as LPs in Base10's new Advancement Initiative VC Fund, to put our $ where our 👄 is on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. HBCUs have been excluded from the wealth created by VC funds, as has the Black community.

"The difference in endowments leads to an ever-widening gap in everything from ability to give student aid&attract top professors to improving campuses&building cutting-edge science, tech, engineering& math (STEM) complexes" Bloomberg This is systemic racism. VC can impact

We are excited to be hosting our first hybrid VentureCrush event, featuring @mayahorgan (founder Ingressive Capital) & Kirby Harris (co-founder Base Ventures). In person is super ltd for obvious reasons, but via Zoom is wide open & free. Register here: my.lowenstein.com/18/3164/landin…