Welcome to VCFamilia Issue #4. This is a biweekly update to keep you in the know about everything going on in the Latinx venture community.

It's been a difficult week for our nation, especially our AAPI friends and family. As Marcia Chong Rosado eloquently put it "As Latinx, Latinas, Latinos, it is important for us to recognize and stand with our AAPI family and our POC family regularly, especially as our familia intersects across racial and ethnic communities. This means dismantling White Supremacy and continued lifelong work, learning, unlearning."

VCFamilia stands with the AAPI community in dismantling hate and systemic racism. If you're looking for resources on how to support the AAPI community check out the resource list.

If you are a VC who identifies as Latinx and would like to join the slack, please fill out this form. Feel free to join the Linkedin group that includes allies + follow us on Twitter.

Coming Up

• Career Cafecito ☕: Join us for an intimate lunch series where we cover to advance your career in venture. Coordinated by Alex Luce and sponsored by MoFo, the first topic is “Navigating Difficult Founder Negotiations – Stories from the Trenches” led by our very own Divanny Lamas (Sutter Hill Ventures) and Adrian Mendoza (Mendoza Ventures) Info in #general channel for slack members only.

• Marcos Gonzalez will be represneting

Wepa! Community Wins

• Funding the future: Congratulations to Taj Eldridge who is raising to fund Black and Latinx Entrepreneurs! Read more below:

This Poet Turned Financier Is Raising Millions of Dollars to Fund Black and Latino Investors and Entrepreneurs — dot.la

Taj Eldridge is raising $250 million to target Black and Latino investors and entrepreneurs in cleantech, healthcare tech, media and fintech. His support has come from individuals in the world of sports and entertainment.

• Repping la familia: Congratulations to our members who made the Power 250 list - too many to tag but we should at least be at 100 here

Power 250: Black & Latino Venture Capitalists You Should Know - HCP — harlem.capital

What Is This? At Harlem Capital, we believe that a significant change in diverse founders will not happen until there are more diverse investors in decision making roles. As a result, it is imperative that we consistently track the data supporting diversity in the venture capital community. We believe that the increase we saw in … Continued

Community Gatherings

• Miami Take Over: A series of brunches including the first one below with Natalia, Carolina, German, Eduardo and Cheryl. Nothing like familia in person (COVID safe)