Well hello there, LatinxVC community! We hope you’re enjoying the turn towards fall.
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LatinxVC is looking for a passionate, entrepreneurial, hard-working, strategic, and action-oriented Executive Director to lead an emerging organization facing significant growth opportunities. This full-time executive will build a team and infrastructure, manage day-to-day operations, coordinate with a team of employees and volunteers, lead partnerships with other organizations and sponsors, and help develop the vision and strategy of LatinxVC. Find the job description here.
UPCOMING EVENTS & ONGOING PROGRAMS
Founding GP Showcase
The Founding GP Showcase (formerly Emerging Manager Showcase) is a marquee invite-only event to showcase Latino representation at the partner level in venture and to drive LP investments in the Latinx community. The event will feature topical discussions and presentations by Latinx GPs who are actively raising capital.
The Founding GP Showcase will take place virtually Friday, November 12th, 2021 from 9am to 12pm Pacific.
If you are an Accredited Investor actively allocating to Latinx GPs, particularly those raising Fund I or Fund II, request an invite here.
If you’d like to volunteer in support of this event, email lps@latinxvcs.com
Virtual Healthcare VC Roundtable
Juan Pablo Mas is organizing a Virtual Healthcare VC Roundtable in Q4. Stay tuned for details!
LatinxVC Mentorship Program
Our LatinxVC Mentorship Program has launched! Many of the junior VCs in the community have been officially matched with GPs in the network who will be working with them on their next career milestones.
PAST EVENTS
The community had a blast at LTX Quest, the largest gathering of Latinx professionals, creators & leaders in media, tech, philanthropy & social impact. Watch all the sessions in our link!
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
Congratulations to Sol Trujillo, Kennie Blanco, and and Gary Acosta, for a first of its kind venture fund that invests exclusively in early-stage US Latino entrepreneurs. L’attitude VC has raised over half of its $100M target size from leading institutions who recognize the critical entrepreneurial and economic growth of US Latinos, a $2.6tn cohort that generates one in every four new entrepreneurs.
Congratulations to Carlos Covarrubias for joining Hyde Park Venture Partners.
And finally, congratulations to Nancy Torres is joining Ulu Ventures as a Principal.
JOB SEEKERS / JOB POSTERS
If you’re looking to join the ranks of LatinxVCs in venture, make sure you are subscribed to our jobs newsletter.
For anyone that is hiring for Associate/Principal roles shoot an email to jobs@latinxvcs.com so we can recommend our Latinx Fellows who just went through an intensive 8 week Fellowship.
The cohort comes from incredibly diverse professional backgrounds, including Postmates, White House, Amazon, Bain & Co, Bridgewater Associates, BCG, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, BlackRock, Facebook, Dropbox, Lyft, Microsoft, Citi Bank, US Army, HSBC, and many more. You can find all of their profiles here.
LAST CALL!
Were you forwarded this email? Are you...
...a Latinx in VC?
...a Latinx and interested in a venture career?
...an LP interested in supporting Latinx investors and GPs?
Shoot us an email at LPs@latinxvcs.com
...a fund looking for Latinx talent?
...media or press?
Shoot us an email at press@latinxvcs.com
Thanks for reading!
-- Your LatinxVC leadership team; Rami, Maria, Alex, Juan-Pablo, Ilse, Jacob, Hector, Carmen, Lauren, Noramay, Daniel, and Flavia (your newsletter ninja - send your hottest events, brags, and content to flavia@buildgroup.com)