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Which angels should I reach out to if I'm a social impact company?

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Written by Jasmine Sunga
Updated over 5 years ago

Here are some investors that we recommend reaching out to:

John McIntyre: New $50m Social Impact fund in Wisconsin. John may not be the right partner at the fund but he can  navigate you to the right one.

Susan Kimberlin : Wife of the CTO of Salesforce and cares deeply about women-related issues.

Vijay Ullal : Husband of CEO of Arista Networks (a female billionaire),  and Vijay angel invests their money and he cares about women's education.

Russlyn Ali :  Managing  Director  of Emerson Collective, Steve Jobs' widow Laurene Jobs' VC fund.   

Mitch Kapor : Founder of Kapor Capital (and former founder of Lotus), a social impact fund. 

Eileen Pao: Ellen's the former CEO of Reddit,  leader of Project Include and a  famous advocate fighting sexism in the workplace. Ellen's a former VC at Kleiner and now invests Kapor Capital's social impact money. I don't have her email but I would guess it's epao@kaporcapital.com . Alchemist Alum Laura Gomez (laura@atipica.com) is co-founder of Project Include w/ Ellen so you might reach out to Laura (who might be connected to others who are good fits). Here are the other team members at Kapor Capital. And the others on the vault.

Deepika: Deepika's an angel, but also works at Amazon and might be a good contact even if she doesn't invest

Connectors: A few VC's that care about women's issues -- you might be too early for them but they  have  deep networks they can connect  you  into  that might be helpful:

Anu Duggal: She's the head of NY-based Female Founders Fund and would likely know  of good  angels  to connect with.

Same with Jen Abramson

Same with Heidi Roizen

Same with Aileen Lee. The co-founder Jennifer is also in the vault,  but not that responsive. You  can tweet at others. I'd recommend tweeting to Sonja

Sharon Vosmek leads Astia, a non-profit to support female founders  (and also selectively invests I believe)

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