Rachel Springate built her venture career from a non-traditional background in hospitality, luxury, and media partnerships, turning relationship capital into her core investing edge and using her partnerships experience to engineer strategic celebrity, Fortune 500, and distribution introductions for founders. She co-built Muse's thesis from lived experience including her cofounder's cancer journey, giving her early conviction-driven focus on women's health, childcare, and elder care as billion-dollar blind spots, and positions diversity explicitly as a returns engine while building a portfolio that is roughly half minority or female-led. Rachel Springate built her venture career from a non-traditional background in hospitality, luxury, and media partnerships, turning relationship capital into her core investing edge and using her partnerships experience to engineer strategic celebrity, Fortune 500, and distribution introductions for founders. She co-built Muse's thesis from lived experience including her cofounder's cancer journey, giving her early conviction-driven focus on women's health, childcare, and elder care as billion-dollar blind spots, and positions diversity explicitly as a returns engine while building a portfolio that is roughly half minority or female-led.