Rachel ten Brink is one of roughly 90 Latinas to have ever raised over $1M in VC funding herself, and she now uses that lived experience as a core part of her identity as an investor at Red Bike Capital, especially around being a visible example for the next generation of Latinas in tech and venture. She explicitly frames herself as a startup founder and global brand operator who became a VC after spending ~15 years building billion-dollar brands at L'Oréal, Estée Lauder, and Elizabeth Arden, then co-founding Y Combinator-backed Scentbird, rather than positioning herself as a career financier who dabbled in startups. Rachel ten Brink is one of roughly 90 Latinas to have ever raised over $1M in VC funding herself, and she now uses that lived experience as a core part of her identity as an investor at Red Bike Capital, especially around being a visible example for the next generation of Latinas in tech and venture. She explicitly frames herself as a startup founder and global brand operator who became a VC after spending ~15 years building billion-dollar brands at L'Oréal, Estée Lauder, and Elizabeth Arden, then co-founding Y Combinator-backed Scentbird, rather than positioning herself as a career financier who dabbled in startups.