Why Funding Immigrant Founders is Good for the American Economy with Chinedu Enekwe S3 Ep.11

Published: March 18, 2022, noon

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Chinedu Enekwe is a Partner at Passbook Ventures, the VC for diverse New Americans & global founders, investment fund advisor, securities attorney, and startup mentor. Passbook is a brand new VC fund investing in the future of commerce (consumer, retail, and finance technologies) creating market access for the next generation of internet users with checks at $500k to $2M in Seed &, Seed+ rounds. We back founder that tap into the pulse of global human connections to build once-in-a-lifetime opportunities.

What you will learn from this episode:

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  • How Chindu is raising funds for Passbook Ventures to give diverse immigrant founders access to capital to achieve outcomes quicker and circumvent time theft (the time that they spend underfunded and looking for capital to achieve the results and scale that they are capable of) Passbook Ventures gender lens and why gender diversity has never been an issue for Chinedu.
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  • The diversity thesis: Underfunded founders tend to be more capital efficient and can outperform competitors because they are better equipped to operate in a lean environment
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  • There is talent everywhere and if you distribute capital in the same way that talent is distributed, then you would be able to get returns and the fund managers who are diverse have the highest access to those opportunities.
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  • How your personal branding helps fundraising outcomes.
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