Rika Nakazawa

Sustainable Innovation. Next Gen Compute - AI, Edge, IoT, P5G. Author. Speaker. Board Director.

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2019𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Investor
Jan 2019
Portfolia is the most powerful community of women and men investing in the companies we want in the world. Our collective investments are changing health, active aging & longevity, sustainability, education, and the overall venture capital landscape while also backing diversity. Our currently open funds are Femtech III, focused on enhancing the wellness of all women, and advancing innovation in womens health; and Active Aging & Longevity II, focused on significant opportunities and challenges in aging well, as well as those focused on new strides and technologies in the field of longevity. We drive change while creating wealth. If youd like to join us, email investorrelations@portfolia.com, and our Investor Relations Team will contact you.
Venture Partner and Investor
Nov 2018
Nassau Street Ventures is a venture capital fund for alumni of Princeton that invests in companies with a Princeton connection. We are part of Alumni Ventures, America’s largest venture fund for individuals and the #1 most active venture firm in the US and #3 globally (PitchBook 2022). Follow Nassau Street Ventures for content at the intersection of our shared alma mater, venture capital, and entrepreneurship. We are private, for-profit, and not affiliated with or sanctioned by the university.
Experience · 8 entries
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Investments (2)
Founder (1)
2020
Vice President, Client Partner
Mar 2020
Conduent delivers digital business solutions and services spanning the commercial, government and transportation spectrum — creating exceptional outcomes for its clients and the millions of people who count on them. The company leverages cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation and advanced analytics to deliver mission-critical services. Through a dedicated global team of approximately 60,000 associates, process expertise and advanced technologies, Conduent solutions and services digitally transform its clients’ operations to enhance customer experiences, improve performance, increase efficiencies and reduce costs. Conduent adds momentum to its clients’ missions in many ways, including delivering 43% of nutrition assistance payments in the U.S., enabling 1.3 billion customer service interactions annually, empowering millions of employees through HR services every year and processing nearly 12 million tolling transactions every day. Learn more at www.conduent.com.
Founding LP
Jan 2020
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.
2019
Founder and CEO
Jun 2019
We help companies to harness their untapped diverse leadership talent by going beyond traditional leadership development. Strides is an AI-based platform that facilitates conversations between diverse senior leaders to cultivate warm professional relationships that leads to advocacy and sponsorship. Strides offers that ability to easily find the most relevant executive connections and enhances your meeting experience with meaningful real-time insights. We augment this with curated leadership development programs delivered through our key partners.
Investor
Jan 2019
Portfolia is the most powerful community of women and men investing in the companies we want in the world. Our collective investments are changing health, active aging & longevity, sustainability, education, and the overall venture capital landscape while also backing diversity. Our currently open funds are Femtech III, focused on enhancing the wellness of all women, and advancing innovation in womens health; and Active Aging & Longevity II, focused on significant opportunities and challenges in aging well, as well as those focused on new strides and technologies in the field of longevity. We drive change while creating wealth. If youd like to join us, email investorrelations@portfolia.com, and our Investor Relations Team will contact you.
2018
Venture Partner and Investor
Nov 2018
Nassau Street Ventures is a venture capital fund for alumni of Princeton that invests in companies with a Princeton connection. We are part of Alumni Ventures, America’s largest venture fund for individuals and the #1 most active venture firm in the US and #3 globally (PitchBook 2022). Follow Nassau Street Ventures for content at the intersection of our shared alma mater, venture capital, and entrepreneurship. We are private, for-profit, and not affiliated with or sanctioned by the university.
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