Demand diversity from your investments. If you have a 401k or a Robinhood account, you’re an investor! What percentage of the funds and companies you’re invested in are run by women? Is it 50%? Ask! Make your investment professional or HR department find out and report back, tell them you want to grow wealth with women leaders.
As part of our series about “Why We Need More Women Founders”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Senofer Mendoza from Mendoza Ventures.
Senofer Mendoza is co-founder and General Partner of Mendoza Ventures, a Boston-based pre-seed Fintech, AI and Cybersecurity venture capital firm. After having a career in enterprise sales and hospitality design, she began Mendoza Ventures to address the growing funding gap in the pre-seed investment stage. The firm was launched in January of 2016 and invests internationally in the Cybersecurity, AI, and Fintech space. They focus on diversity as playing an important role in their investment decisions, as roughly 75% of their portfolio consists of start-ups led by women, immigrants and people of color.
