Claire Díaz-Ortiz, Magma Partners: Investing in Latin American Female Founders, Ep 123

<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 24pt;">Claire Díaz-Ortiz, Magma Partners: Investing in Latin American Female Founders, Ep 123</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Claire Díaz-Ortiz has been passionate about investing in women and supporting the underrepresented since her days at Stanford, where she completed an undergrad in Feminist Studies and History. However, it wasn’t until later in her career as an angel investor, and now as a VC Partner, that she truly understood the business case for investing in women. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Having spent the last 6 months working in stealth mode, Claire joined Magma Partners as a Partner to lead both Southern Cone and Brava, an initiative that seeks to invest in more Latin American female founders. Brava is committed to investing in at least 20 female-founded Latin American startups through Magma’s fund III. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I sat down with Claire to officially welcome her on the team and talk about the importance of investing in women and doing business in emerging markets. We touch on topics of privilege and the biases that exist in the world that are reflected in the venture capital industry. We also discuss Claire’s career trajectory, from starting a nonprofit organization in an orphanage in Kenya, to becoming one of Twitter’s early employees and famously ‘getting the Pope on Twitter’.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Claire also talks about her decision to move to Argentina where she has been living for the past ten years.</span></p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Being a “wandering delinquent”</span></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After graduating from Stanford, Claire says she spent the next 5 years living her life like– what her father jokingly called– a “wandering delinquent”. In her first year, she moved to a town in Mexico and started building an international life that would lead her to an orphanage in Kenya. There, she started a non-profi