EP 22: INVESTING IN DIVERSE FOUNDERS WITH LAUREL MINTZ
Laurel Mintz is the Founder of Fabric VC, a venture fund backing underrepresented founders at the earliest stage with a focus on Web 3.0 CPG in key areas.
She is also the founder of Elevate My Brand an award-winning agency that serves both startups and blue chip global brands like Facebook, Verizon Digital Media Group, PAW Patrol and Zendesk. Laurel's favorite saying is FIOGID. Figure it out, get it done. And that's exactly what's brought the agency top talent and accolades since 2009.
Laurel has a J.D/M.B.A from Rutgers University and sits on the Board of Directors for the Network for Teaching Leadership, the Women Founders Network, and the UCLA Restaurant Conference and is a mentor for The Women's Global Leaders Initiative. Laurel writes a weekly Inc. Magazine column appropriately entitled "On Brand". Her published work can be found in Entrepreneur, USA Today, The American Marketing Association and C-Suite Quarterly Magazine.
Fabric VC’s mission is to weave together diverse founders with the funding they need and deserve. Our experience matched with our inspiring diverse-run portfolio companies will elevate and support the need for diversity, equity and inclusion in fundraising. Doing great things together by investing in companies doing great things in the world.
