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Investor profile

Yasmin Cruz Ferrine

General Partner, Visible Hands

About

Yasmin Cruz Ferrine is a longtime institutional investor who left traditional asset management to personally tackle the racial wealth gap in venture capital, designing Visible Hands around a three-capital model that provides founders with financial capital, social capital, and inspiration capital including representation and executive coaching. She rejects the idea that founders should be literally hungry to build companies and gives each fellow $25K upfront to counter the reality that many women and founders of color cannot afford to go months without income or tap wealthy friends and family networks. Yasmin Cruz Ferrine is a longtime institutional investor who left traditional asset management to personally tackle the racial wealth gap in venture capital, designing Visible Hands around a three-capital model that provides founders with financial capital, social capital, and inspiration capital including representation and executive coaching. She rejects the idea that founders should be literally hungry to build companies and gives each fellow $25K upfront to counter the reality that many women and founders of color cannot afford to go months without income or tap wealthy friends and family networks.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Sectors
SaaS
Health
AI
Consumer
Diversity focus
Under-represented founders

Investment details

Avg check size$25K - $175K
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
USA