#28 Miriam Rivera

Miriam Rivera #28 Cofounder, CEO, and managing director, Ulu Ventures After she left Google in 2006, Miriam Rivera thought she’d get another job as a lawyer for a tech company. Instead, her industry peers persuaded her to try her hand at investing in startups. She and her husband, Clint Korver, a fellow Seed 100 investor, cofounded Ulu Ventures in 2008. Rivera has sought to prove that backing founders from a variety of backgrounds can yield big returns. More than half of Ulu’s portfolio companies have founding teams with at least one woman or person of color, including the unicorns Everlaw, Guild Education, and BetterUp — all of which raised massive funding rounds in 2021. Ulu started with Rivera and Korver’s own funds, but they decided they needed to go bigger with an outside fund. “We thought that we really could have a broader impact, a more national impact, if we were a fund,” Rivera said. “And I think that’s been true.” Source: businessInsider