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.
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But armed with funding from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) for a new program, the group is continuing its mission to increase the number of Latinx represented in the VC community.
Maria Salamanca, partner at Unshackled Ventures and co-president of LatinxVC
We spoke with co-founders and co-presidents of LatinxVC, Maria Salamanca …
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