{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Behind The Work by Jessica Santana","title":"Closing the Capital Gap — On Venture Capital & Building La Familia with Cheryl Campos","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3533,"description":"Cheryl Campos has spent her career refusing to be put in a box — and building entire ecosystems so others don't have to be either. This week, she's sitting down with us to pull back the curtain on what it really takes to break into venture capital, build community from the ground up, and move capital to the people who've been locked out of it for too long.Cheryl is the Co-Founder of LaFamilia VC and VCFamilia — the largest global community of verified Latine venture investors. She's a Harvard economics grad, a former Barclays investment banker, a Stanford GSB alum, and someone who has modeled for Tom Ford and Christian Louboutin in the same breath as supporting $8 billion in structured finance transactions. She doesn't choose between her worlds. She builds new ones.In this conversation, we get into what it actually means to sit with the tension of being 40% of venture as a Harvard graduate — but 1% of venture as a Latina. We talk about what she saw missing when she joined Republic as employee number ten, why she built the Venture Partner Program that drove 600% year-over-year deal flow growth, and what the founding moment of VCFamilia really felt like. We get into the $2.7 trillion economic output of Latine-owned businesses, why only 2% of VC funding reaches Latine founders, and what LaFamilia is doing to change that — starting with the first-ever operational capital grant program for Latine emerging fund managers.We also get into the future — what it looks like to shift $1 billion in venture capital to Latines, what unity and intersectionality actually mean inside a community as beautifully diverse as ours, and what Cheryl wants every first-gen Latina standing at the door of a room she's not sure she's allowed to enter to know.This episode is for you if:⭐ You're a founder, investor, or operator trying to understand where the real gaps in venture capital are — and where the opportunity lives.⭐ You've ever felt like you were too much of one thing and not enough of...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/BeWs27ZBOKNAjZ63FE09H0yIOg2VSU3UImwarqjXJpw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80OGIx/MGUxYjE5N2I1ODIx/NTdlM2UyNGRlYjg1/MmFiZS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}