Soraya Darabi is a first-generation venture capitalist who learned the industry from scratch as the daughter of an Iranian immigrant cab driver, then co-founded the visual food app Foodspotting (acquired by OpenTable) after building The New York Times' early social media strategy. She now runs TMV as a "go-to-market agency" for founders, staffing her fund like a creative shop and focusing on underinvested areas like the care economy and sustainable logistics while backing a portfolio that's 65% women and minority founders. Soraya Darabi is a first-generation venture capitalist who learned the industry from scratch as the daughter of an Iranian immigrant cab driver, then co-founded the visual food app Foodspotting (acquired by OpenTable) after building The New York Times' early social media strategy. She now runs TMV as a "go-to-market agency" for founders, staffing her fund like a creative shop and focusing on underinvested areas like the care economy and sustainable logistics while backing a portfolio that's 65% women and minority founders.