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Lolita Taub          

Latina Tech Venture Capitalist; Sales Expert; GP at Ganas Ventures; Advocate for Diversity in Tech

Lolita Taub is a GP at Ganas Ventures where she invests in pre-seed and seed community-driven companies. With 15 years working within the Silicon Valley ecosystem, she has accomplished $70M+ in sales and made 90+ investments as an angel investor, Scout at Lightspeed Venture Partners, and VC at Backstage Capital and The Community Fund. Taub is also a Co-Founder of proprietary matching tools Startup-Investor Matching Tool, the GP-LP Matching Tool, and the LaaS community which brings along a community of over 4K+ founders, funders, and ecosystem friends. Forbes and Inc Magazine have featured her as a woman promoting investment in underestimated founders and funders.

Taub’s roots are in South Central Los Angeles to Mexican parents who immigrated to the United States with no money and no family to go to for support. Her father found jobs as a migrant farmworker, in a door manufacturing factory, and as a truck driver. Her mother babysat and cleaned houses. “We grew up poor,” Taub says. “People used to tell me that I’d be a high school dropout and go on welfare.” At age 34, she had a bachelor’s degree, an MBA, and 13 years of experience working in the tech industry—including high-profile positions at venture funds built on investing in women, people of color, and the LBGTQ+ community.

Taub is a woman of color with extensive experience in tech, as an investor, micro-influencer, an international keynote speaker, and 2-time TEDx speaker, who has been recognized for her work in venture capital and tech on Forbes, Inc, The Huffington Post, and Entrepreneur, among other publications. Prior to her venture career, she spent nearly a decade in B2B tech, consulting and selling solutions to enterprises cross-industry at IBM, Cisco Systems, Silicon Valley and NYC startups. She has a BA from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the IE Business School. Most importantly, she is a dog mom to the cutest Dachshund mix, Choco.

Speech Topics


Venture Capital

Lolita explains how high-returns will be achieved by increasing the number of dollars going into companies and funds led by underestimated founders.

Artificial Intelligence

Lolita talks about AI’s ability to amplify or reduce bias in talent, products, and services.

Future of Work

Lolita discusses the tech talent supply problem the business world is facing and how to address it through upskilling underestimated and underrepresented members of society.

Diversity in Tech

Lolita shares why girls, women, and people of color need to break into tech and how to do it.

News


How To Support Black Entrepreneurs: Hire And Wire
Lolita Taub, Chief of Staff at Catalyte and Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners, puts it this way, “Investing is about taking risks to gain returns. And so, I  ...
Black Woman-Founded App Development Platform Tequity Wins ...
Judged by Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, Lolita Taub, cofounder and general partner at the Community Fund, and Jenny Fielding , ...
How (And Why) To Make Venture Funding More Equitable
Lolita Taub, co-founder and general partner at The Community Fund, shared: " Many investors believe in the old trope of 'if you can't get a warm intro to me, then  ...
Meet The Latinx Investor Moving The Needle For Underrepresented ...
Lolita Taub is a co-founder and General Partner at The Community Fund and a very vocal advocate for the rights of underestimated investors and founders in the  ...

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