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Investor profile

Miriam Rivera

CEO, Co-Founder, and Managing Director, Ulu Ventures

About

Miriam Rivera integrates spirituality and servant leadership into venture investing while applying formal decision science frameworks to counter cognitive biases in early-stage funding decisions, drawing on her background scaling Google's revenue from $85M to $10B through systematic legal and commercial infrastructure. As a first-generation college graduate from a low-income Puerto Rican family, she positions diversity as part of her alpha thesis rather than a side goal, with roughly a quarter of Ulu-backed entrepreneurs being African American or Latinx while serving as a preferred capital partner for underrepresented founders seeking both sophisticated investment and cultural alignment. Miriam Rivera integrates spirituality and servant leadership into venture investing while applying formal decision science frameworks to counter cognitive biases in early-stage funding decisions, drawing on her background scaling Google's revenue from $85M to $10B through systematic legal and commercial infrastructure. As a first-generation college graduate from a low-income Puerto Rican family, she positions diversity as part of her alpha thesis rather than a side goal, with roughly a quarter of Ulu-backed entrepreneurs being African American or Latinx while serving as a preferred capital partner for underrepresented founders seeking both sophisticated investment and cultural alignment.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Sectors
Enterprise
FinTech
Education
Future Of Work
Diversity focus
Under-represented founders

Investment details

Avg check size$750K - $1M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
USA