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CSI 25th Anniversary Celebration: Conversation with Miriam Rivera and Jenna Nicholas

In this keynote conversation, Jenna Nicholas, MBA’17, interviews Miriam Rivera, MBA ‘95, about her journey as a first generation student, tech startup co-founder, and an impact leader dedicated to creating and supporting diverse teams in entrepreneurial and investment communities. This session was hosted by the Center for Social Innovation (CSI) for their 25th anniversary event on November 20, 2024 at the Stanford GSB. Learn more about CSI: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/experien.... Miriam Rivera is CEO, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Ulu Ventures, a top-tier seed stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley focused on high-growth and market-leading technology companies. Miriam is dedicated to increasing diversity in both the entrepreneurial and investment communities. Ulu’s investment thesis is based on the concept that diversity is profitable, coupled with a data-driven, repeatable process for making investment decisions. More than 80% of Ulu portfolio companies are founded by diverse teams that include women, minority, URM and/or immigrant founders. The firm has more than $400M in assets under management and 10 unicorns in the portfolio. Ulu was the first Latina-led venture fund in Silicon Valley and Miriam is a recognized pioneer in both the tech and Latinx communities. Before co-founding Ulu, Miriam was Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Google, joining in 2001 as its second attorney. Her work to simplify contracts helped Google scale from $85m to $10b in 5 years. Jenna Nicholas is the co-founder and CEO of Impact Experience which is focused on addressing equity across climate, healthcare, education and investments. Impact Experience applies insights from the disciplines of systems transformation and organizational development, design thinking, somatic psychology, and experiential learning to build bridges between organizations and among people that catalyze collaboration and investment. Jenna is currently spearheading the Business Climate Finance initiative through Impact Experience to decarbonize corporate bank accounts and retirement funds.