Diane Cornman-Levy brings over 30 years as a nonprofit leader and community organizer to venture capital, carrying an explicitly activist leadership identity into investing where she publicly frames her work as challenging systems like white supremacy and racism. She helped co-create Phirst Market Ventures as part of a broader Gender Wealth Institute strategy that fuses a venture fund with an in-house think tank and advocacy arm, using a blended nonprofit-for-profit model where catalytic grants convert into discounted SAFE notes and patient equity once companies hit milestones. Diane Cornman-Levy brings over 30 years as a nonprofit leader and community organizer to venture capital, carrying an explicitly activist leadership identity into investing where she publicly frames her work as challenging systems like white supremacy and racism. She helped co-create Phirst Market Ventures as part of a broader Gender Wealth Institute strategy that fuses a venture fund with an in-house think tank and advocacy arm, using a blended nonprofit-for-profit model where catalytic grants convert into discounted SAFE notes and patient equity once companies hit milestones.