Yolanda (Yolis) Ruiz

Finance/Operations Executive | IPO | Advisor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2011
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Board Member & Investor
Jul 2010
Freshology is the nation’s leading gourmet meal delivery company. Our programs and products, targeting a range of needs from weight loss to healthy lifestyle, are healthy, portable, all natural, and responsibly sourced.They afford consumers superior nutritional value and the sophisticated flavors, textures and colors that reinforce their world-view. Freshology consumers are passionate, motivated and proactive individuals, from all walks of life, who are willing to invest to achieve the life they want. For them, Freshology products are the only convenient, alternative to home-made food.
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2022
Limited Partner
Jul 2022
Operator Collective is a venture fund and dream team community of operator LPs. OpCo brings together 200+ of tech’s most exceptional executives from diverse backgrounds to invest in and supercharge the next generation of enterprise tech. Meet the Collective Venture Model™.
2011
Board Member & Investor
2011
🌱 At New Leaf Paper, Inc., sustainability is at the heart of everything we do. As a certified B Corporation, we adhere to rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, ensuring that our business practices are as responsible as our products. Our mission is simple yet profound: to provide innovative paper solutions that protect and preserve our planet’s resources. Our values are rooted in sustainability, quality, and community impact. Through our Impact for Good model, we aim to create a positive ripple effect that extends beyond our products, the entire supply chain, and our communities. Discover our diverse eco-friendly products, including recycled content papers and FSC-certified options; New Leaf Paper has the solutions you need to support your sustainability goals. We invite you to make a difference, one sheet at a time. New Leaf Paper was founded in 1998 and has offices in Appleton, WI, Charlotte, NC, and Gettysburg, PA,
2010
Board Member & Investor
Jul 2010
Freshology is the nation’s leading gourmet meal delivery company. Our programs and products, targeting a range of needs from weight loss to healthy lifestyle, are healthy, portable, all natural, and responsibly sourced.They afford consumers superior nutritional value and the sophisticated flavors, textures and colors that reinforce their world-view. Freshology consumers are passionate, motivated and proactive individuals, from all walks of life, who are willing to invest to achieve the life they want. For them, Freshology products are the only convenient, alternative to home-made food.
2008
Partner
May 2008
Pacific Community Ventures is a non-profit community investor that unlocks economic opportunity and climate resilience for small business owners and workers. Through access to affordable capital, pro bono business advising, ethical technology and AI, we partner with entrepreneurs to grow, hire, and prosper.
2007
Associate
Jan 2007
Founded in 2003 by Jeff Menashe, Demeter Advisory Group is the leading investment bank for M&A advisory services to Wine, Spirits and No/Low Beverage companies. We strategically connect with visionary founders + companies years in advance of a transaction, allowing us to share our decades of perspective in decision making that helps grow brand relevance, growth, and profit, positioning us to act as the brand’s unequivocal advocate in a transaction. Since 2015, we have completed transactions totaling over $2 billion. For more information, please visit www.demeteradvisorygroup.com.
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