Renata Marino joins Karen Rands on the Compassionate Capitalist Show to discuss her unique perspective as a Latina navigating the challenges of startups raising capital, bringing products to market, raising capital, and finally becoming an angel investor and venture capital herself. Renata shares here personal journey to be able to be bold in breaking through barriers to be a becoming a leading voice in the entrepreneur and venture communities, particularly for women founders.

Key discussion points Karen and Renata cover are:
- Expectations that Women, particularly women of color, face and the challenges they over come to break through the glass ceilings in corporate world, to raise capital as female founders and the ultimate gold ring, to join the traditional male domain of venture capital.
- With so much emphasis placed on equality -- for capital to be gender neutral and color blind, what are the challenges facing the community of women entrepreneurs today?
- Why is it that more women haven't made that same crossover to angel investing and even in the VC realm?
- What are some of the best practices for female founders to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams, and specifically to raise capital?

Renata Merino is a 20 year operator, x-investment banker, Chicago Booth MBA merit based scholar, Latina serial entrepreneur turned investor and venture capitalist. As a female and Hispanic and one who has faced the roadblocks in raising capital, her mission is to be the "access to capital" for female and minority founders. As a 20 year operator and serial entrepreneur, Renata brings firsthand knowledge and experience from both Fortune 500 and the startup world on how to build a business, product or service from an idea. Her passion lies in helping founders scale, while her analytical and strategic forte and network reputation is about delivering on a promise by returning the fund.

Karen Rands, the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement and author of the Best Seller, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, is an authority on creating wealth through investing and building successful businesses that can scale and exit rich. Visit http://KarenRands.co to learn why Investors hire her firm to identify the red flags of deal before you invest or try to raise capital, and entrepreneurs trust her to advise and manage on their capital campaign.

To learn more about the programs and services that Karen and her team offer to entrepreneurs and investors, visit http://karenrands.co

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