Today is a very special episode on female founders and the Latin American market. We're joined by Claire Díaz-Ortiz investor, seasoned author and partner at Magma Partners and head of Brava. Claire and I have an absolutely fascinating conversation where we discuss:

• Angel investing and a look back at Claire's first check
• Ticket sizes, frequency and funding for female founders over the last few years
• The impact of covid on fundraising for diverse founders
• How built-in bias and social graphs affect who we fund and the opportunities we see
• Venture opportunities in Latin America
• Magma Partners, The Brave Initiative and funding female founders
• The inherent problems with VC investor pattern matching

Claire Díaz-Ortiz is an investor & bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Wired magazine once called her "The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter" and she was also named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company.

She is currently an investing partner at Magma Partners, Latin America's leading pre-seed VC fund, and leads Brava, Magma's initiative to invest in female founders in Latin America. She is also an angel investor in all geographies. Claire was an early employee at Twitter, where she was first hired to lead corporate social innovation.

Magma Partners is a seed-stage venture capital firm with offices in Latin America and California. Magma specializes in finding the best technology startups with technology and/or sales team in Latin America, but whose primary market is the United States. Since 2014, they have invested in 32 companies with teams all across Latin America.

• Magma Partners: https://magmapartners.com/
• Brava: https://brava.magmapartners.co

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairediazortiz/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Claire

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