Carmen Palafox

The Cap Table Coalition is made up of high-growth startups, VC firms, and emerging fund managers who want to work to close the racial wealth gap. If you are an underrepresented investor or a founder looking to pledge, join us! https://captablecoalition.com/ Inspired by the Act One Diversity Rider and Finix’s fundraising efforts to diversify startup cap tables, were working to make it as easy as possible for everyone to join the movement.

How Women Invest is a venture firm, and sister entity to How Women Lead, a professional network of over 24,000 women. We see that female founders are a force to be reckoned with and are part of an untapped venture capital landscape. We invest in U.S. based, female-led and female-majority owned companies in most industry sectors. With 40% of companies founded by women, generating 26% greater returns, and yet only 2% of venture backing, How Women Invest focuses at the intersection of this opportunity to create ecosystem change. To learn more about the firm: www.howwomeninvest.com and info@howwomeninvest.com.

2045 ventures thesis is backed by data that shows diverse founding teams return more capital to investors. We fill the persistent gap in funding by investing in startups led by immigrant, female, or underrepresented founders. We value mission-driven founding teams that deeply understand their customers, are disciplined, and can execute their plans.

The Cap Table Coalition is made up of high-growth startups, VC firms, and emerging fund managers who want to work to close the racial wealth gap. If you are an underrepresented investor or a founder looking to pledge, join us! https://captablecoalition.com/ Inspired by the Act One Diversity Rider and Finix’s fundraising efforts to diversify startup cap tables, were working to make it as easy as possible for everyone to join the movement.

MiLA Capital is a high-touch venture fund based in Los Angeles, CA. The fund was created to advance next-generation hardware startups. The team is particularly excited by sectors such as food tech, ag tech, healthcare, biotech, new materials, mobility, aerospace, industry 4.0, advanced manufacturing, cleantech, and innovation across Latin America. MiLA leadership believes that emerging hardware founders are too often overlooked, and by helping them get to market in the most resource efficient way possible, MiLA earns the right to win at this significant inflection point (pre-Series A). Since 2015, MiLA has invested in 18 total startups from across the globe that have gone on to raise over $120 million in follow-on funding. MiLA also operates the Make in LA 4-month program to discover, nurture, and invest in promising hardware companies at the formation stage, as well as the Toolbox LA innovation lab to draw in the hard tech community across Southern California. The MiLA team recognizes that investing in diverse companies can move the needle in a meaningful way; as a result, 47% of the companies in their portfolio are female-founded and 61% have an immigrant founder.

Dimensional has been implementing the great ideas in financial science since 1981. Our firm is driven by an evidence-based approach, Nobel Prize-winning insights, and decades of expertise pursuing outperformance over benchmarks and peers while maintaining low costs and diversification. Dimensional’s founders launched some of the first index funds in the 1970s. In the 1980s they broke new ground pioneering factor investing, starting the firm with the belief that investors could do better than indexing through a research-backed approach using up-to-date information on what can improve returns. We believe this can lead to better outcomes for investors than active stock-picking or passive indexing. Our commitment to research, rigor, and the pursuit of truth has helped transform the industry toward more transparent, data-driven solutions. That commitment continues to propel Dimensional forward today. Dimensional is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has more than 1,500 employees in offices around the world. The firm offers a full suite of regional and global equity and fixed income solutions. As of December 31, 2025, Dimensional and its affiliates managed $944 billion for investors worldwide. __ Dimensional Fund Advisors LP is an investment advisor registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. *“Dimensional” refers to the Dimensional separate but affiliated entities generally, rather than to one particular entity. These entities are Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Dimensional Fund Advisors Ltd., DFA Australia Limited, Dimensional Fund Advisors Canada ULC, Dimensional Fund Advisors Pte. Ltd., Dimensional Ireland Limited, Dimensional Japan Ltd., and Dimensional Hong Kong Limited. Dimensional Hong Kong Limited is licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission to conduct Type 1 (dealing in securities) regulated activities only and does not provide asset management services. Important Disclosure: www.dimensional.com/social-media-terms-and-conditions