E081: Joanna Kuang: Illumen Capital
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E081: Joanna Kuang: Illumen Capital
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:19 What inspired you to become a VC?
01:47 What is your investment thesis? What is the motivation for your thesis?
05:33 What are you currently reading or learning or listening to these days?
13:00 In 2 years, how do you see venture capital evolved or changed?
20:20 How do people contact you?
20:50 Thank you
Featured Guest Bio:
Joanna has dedicated her career to expanding access to capital in pursuit of inclusive justice for and alongside under-resourced people of color. She believes a combination of public, private, and philanthropic capital drives the most meaningful impact when coordinated towards a shared systemic goal.
Prior to Illumen Capital, Joanna advised and built capacity for local, state, and federal governments on driving taxpayer dollars towards meaningful results for overlooked and underestimated communities at Third Sector Capital Partners. She began her career at Wellington Management, defining and managing impact for the institutional asset manager's sole impact investing portfolio.
Ms. Kuang earned a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University, and as a Robertson Scholar, she was also dual enrolled at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Fund Information:
Illumen Capital is an impact fund of funds addressing systemic inequity by reducing racial and gender bias in investing.
Working closely with the world’s leading social psychologists at Stanford SPARQ, we combine investment capital with evidence-based tools and training designed to reduce implicit racial and gender bias in order to unlock latent return and multiply impact.
We believe an inclusive and optimal asset management industry will be the cornerstone of an equal and equitable future.
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