SomosVC Appoints New Executive Director to Support the Latine Venture Capital Ecosystem

LatinxVC, a non-profit focused on growing and supporting the Latinx venture capital ecosystem, today announced it has appointed Mariela Salas to the position of Executive Director.

State of Latino/a VCs: First Annual Report

LatinxVC, a non-profit organization focused on increasing the number of Latino and Latina (“Latinx”) venture capital investment professionals and supporting Latinx venture capital investors, today issued its first annual State of Latinx VCs Report.

SomosVC Announces Silicon Valley Bank Sponsorship to Double the Number of Latine Professionals Working in Venture Capital

New Report Finds Latinx Investment Professionals Make Up Only 2% of the Venture Capital Industry Workforce While Latinx Individuals Comprise 19% of the U.S. Population.

SomosVC Seeks To Boost Latine VCs With The Help Of Silicon Valley Bank

Nonprofit LatinxVC released a recent report finding that only 2 percent of partner-level investment professionals are Latino or Latina although 19 percent of the U.S. population is Hispanic, as reported by the Pew Research Center. And 86 percent of institutional VCs have zero Latinx investment team members.