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The Trumps have COVID. Ahead of día de Los Muertos, paint skulls, and appreciate life. Discover crime scenes with the world's first quantumly generated “Choose Your Own Adventure” reality game, Randonautica. Also, Eva Langoria and America Ferrara launched She Se Puede and it’s National Crunchy Taco day today! Vote.
For Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15th - Oct. 15th), AT&T invited me to participate as an expert panelist on a Twitter chat and the question that resonated most with the community was this one: As a Latino, have you felt the need to be “extra?” If so, why? “Extra” here is defined as “having to do more” as opposed to Urban Dictionary’s definition “being pretentious.”
The Latinx community shared that in order to be taken seriously: some of us change our names; as women, wear perfume, pearls, and lipstick every day; and as men, wear button-ups, polos and always be clean-shaven. And when we don’t, many of us get confused for the help, movers, gardeners, and nannies. Sad stuff.
What’s worst is knowing that as businesswomen and men we’re leaving money on the table by underestimating Latinx communities. Did you know that our purchasing power is $1.7 Trillion? Let’s make some money and invest in Latinx founders and pull more Latinx investors into the VC game. And on that note, Josh and I invested in SUMA this morning!
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ICYMI: Inc featured me in a post on funding options. AT&T invited me to participate as an expert panelist for #HispanicHeritageMonth. R/GA Ventures featured The Community Fund and me in their Summer Pick's post. Headlined San Diego Startup Week's event series. Submit your co for investment consideration here. Congrats!
The Community Fund’s new investment partners! Eric Bahn, Elizabeth Yin, Shiyan Koh for celebrating Hustle Fund’s 3rd birthday. Bryce Roberts for his two fund returners. My sister Monica Munoz is now on Twitter @himoniquita. Samara Hernandez for making the first Oper8r cohort. Brian Landers for launching Make Studio. Aurora Diaz for making the All Raise Seed Bootcamp. Rebecca Alvarez for her feature in Forbes. And my sales team for making their Q3 numbers!
Funders
Pitchbook | Female managed US funds outperform all-male rivals
All Raise | Pushing for Change: An Interview with Cat Hernandez
LatinxVC | Path into venture capital events 10/6-7
BLCK VC | Apply for the NYC VC Fellowship program by 10/5
Republic | Apply to join the Republic Venture Fellow Program by 10/16
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