Access and Opportunity

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Carla Harris talks with founder and Managing Partner at Precursor Ventures, Charles Hudson, a seed-stage investor bringing an institutional perspective to startups in the earliest stages of their development.

Carla Harris talks with JoAnn Price, co-founder of Fairview Capital, one of the largest black-owned private equity firms in America, working to connect institutional investors with multicultural and women-led funds.

Carla Harris talks with Monika Mantilla, founder of both Altura Capital and of Small Business Community Capital, working to connect emerging managers and small businesses with the capital they need.

Dr. Paul Judge is the co-founder of Tech Square Labs, a seed-stage venture fund that has a strong history of investing in entrepreneurs of color.

Welcome back for Season 3 of Access & Opportunity. This season, we're exploring how influential investors from across various pools of capital are helping women and multicultural-led businesses to gain access to capital. In this first episode of the season, we sit down with Jenny Abramson, the founder and managing partner of Rethink Impact, a venture capital firm that invests in female leaders who are using technology to solve the world's biggest problems. Jenny and her partners launched Rethink in 2015 specifically to help women entrepreneurs and other diverse company founders obtain equitable access to capital. Jenny offers us strategic advice on how we can work to increase the number of women and people of color receiving investment capital. We also consider how recent changes in the funding landscape have opened up opportunities and where additional improvements can be made to even out the distribution of capital to women and multicultural entrepreneurs. The guest speakers are neither employees nor affiliated with Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC. (“Morgan Stanley”). The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of Morgan Stanley. The information and figures contained herein has been obtained from sources outside of Morgan Stanley and Morgan Stanley makes no representations or guarantees as to the accuracy or completeness of information or data from sources outside of Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley is not responsible for the information or data contained in this podcast. This podcast does not provide individually tailored investment advice and is not a solicitation of any offer to buy or sell any security or other financial instrument or to participate in any trading strategy. It has been prepared without regard to the individual financial circumstances and objectives of persons who receive it. © 2019 Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Members SIPC.

For our listeners who may not be as familiar with the investing landscape, this episode will highlight and give some context for a few of the terms that you’ll hear this season.

Welcome back for Season 3 of Access & Opportunity. Episode 1 Launching June 26th!

On the Season Two finale of Access & Opportunity, James Rhee, entrepreneur, impact investor and CEO, explains how and why he transformed Ashley Stewart from a neglected retailer into a thriving brand and powerful platform that supports a community of women.

Tristan Walker, CEO of Walker & Company, explains how he is building an empire focused on solving the acute health and beauty problems of multicultural consumers.

Zume co-founder Julia Collins, who has broken barriers with her most recent round of funding, shares her story about the food tech company.

“I advise young entrepreneurs today, always run toward something, don’t run away from something.” Rose Wang, this week's guest on Access & Opportunity and the founder and strategic advisor of Binary Group.

Carla Harris sits down with Nely Galan to discuss how she made a name for herself in media among industry titans and became a media mogul in her own right, where she learned her most valuable lessons including how to find your niche in the business world.

On this season of Access and Opportunity, Carla Harris sits down with entrepreneurs who have fought their way to the top and continue to disrupt markets today. In Episode One, real-estate veteran Neville Rhone shares his journey from corporate executive to entrepreneur in search of development projects that benefit communities.

“Most people in the Silicon Valley tech ecosystem… believe that institutions are meritocracies,” says Freada Kapor Klein, a founding partner of Kapor Capital. “If you believe that self-serving nonsense then you believe that if there's no diversity in your circles, it's because whoever's outside isn't good enough, and it's an incredibly dangerous and inaccurate belief system.”  In the season 1 finale of the Access & Opportunity podcast, Carla Harris talks to Kapor Klein about how her Oakland-based venture capital firm, which she co-founded with her husband, the computer visionary Mitchell Kapor, is breaking down the investment barriers for startups run by women and multicultural entrepreneurs. To date, 56% of Kapor Capital’s investments have gone to startups with a founder who is a woman or a person of color from an underrepresented background. “We’re often the first money in, and our investment has signaling value—that we believe in this entrepreneur, in this business model, and we’re going to help them succeed,” says Kapor Klein. Taking it a step further, Kapor Capital has also invested in startups with a social justice angle that look to help underserved communities. One such venture—Pigeonly—helps families find affordable ways to keep in touch with incarcerated relatives. It’s all part of Kapor Klein’s evolving approach “to both identify leaks in the pipeline and to plug them.”   The guest speakers are neither employees nor affiliated with Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC. (“Morgan Stanley”). The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of Morgan Stanley. The information and figures contained herein has been obtained from sources outside of Morgan Stanley and Morgan Stanley makes no representations or guarantees as to the accuracy or completeness of information or data from sources outside of Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley is not responsible for the information or data contained in this podcast. This podcast does not provide individually tailored investment advice and is not a solicitation of any offer to buy or sell any security or other financial instrument or to participate in any trading strategy. It has been prepared without regard to the individual financial circumstances and objectives of persons who receive it. © 2018 Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Members SIPC.