Sarah Kunst: How Diversity Leads to Better Investment Performance | SALT Talks #73

Sarah Kunst is the managing director of Cleo Capital. Sarah is an investor and entrepreneur who has worked at Apple, Red Bull, Chanel & Mohr Davidow Ventures. She is also a contributing editor at Marie Claire Magazine. She founded LA Dodgers backed Proday and has served as a senior advisor at Bumble where she focused on Bumble Fund, their corporate venture capital arm. She is also on the board of the Michigan State University Foundation endowment. Growing up middle class in a 300-person Michigan town, it was understood that to go out and achieve more would require hard work. Early career positions offered exposure to tech-heavy hitters like the Winklevoss twins and Jack Dorsey. Insatiable curiosity in their work and the Silicon Valley industry eventually provided the opportunity to break through as an emerging fund manager, raising a $3.5M venture fund in 2018. “That was the second largest, first time fund by a black woman, VC in America ever. Three and a half million, I'm not misspeaking.” ————————————————————————— To learn more about this episode, including podcast transcripts and show notes, visit salt.org/talks Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci.