May 20, 2021, 3:00 – 4:00 PM
May marks one of our favorite annual globally themed months at Startup Grind: #SGWomen’s Month! Finclusive Ventures aims to elevate diverse founders and investors to create new opportunities for all. Having recently worked closely with Abacus Gibaltar on the advisory of a fund we are hosting Kelly Lei one of the Founding General Partners to talk about their business model and goals.
May marks one of our favorite annual globally themed months at Startup Grind: #SGWomen’s Month!
Finclusive Ventures aims to elevate diverse founders and investors to create new opportunities for all. By investing in founders they want to work for they create returns for investors who truly want to do good. Having recently worked closely with Abacus Gibaltar, we are hosting Kelly Lei one of the Founding General Partners to talk about their business model and goals.
Future of Work / Education
Technology that makes learning, reskilling and work more effective, fun, and collaborative. Solutions that reduce friction and pain across industries.
Climate Tech
CleanTech, AgTech, or Food Tech that reduces overall carbon footprint while creating outsized return in a latent market.
Humanity Focused
Startups that have a clear focus on improving the quality of life of all humanity -- building dreams and healing pains.
FinTech
Fin Tech that creates financial inclusion and enable fair access to financial opportunities across multiple regions of the world.
Kelly Lei is one of the Founding General Partners of Finclusive Ventures and the Founder of Glocal Network, initially investing in REI and later expanding to venture investing and advising. Her current investment focus includes the Future of Work, Future of Education, FinTech, and ClimateTech. As a Management Consultant, the Head of Operations of Delivering Happiness and the creator of its podcast, Kelly is a thought leader in the Future of Work space.
With a BS in computer engineering and MS engineering management in the University of Florida, Kelly had a prolific career in STEM as an engineer, a program manager, and a sustainability lead at Raytheon, while also serving as a competitive Math coach in Doral Academy. Kelly was awarded an Inventor and Author award, Operational Excellence Awards and the Green Business Challenge Platinum award. She founded ERG groups and served on the diversity council. Born in Macau, Kelly immigrated to Miami at the age of 12 and moved over 10 times for her career. Kelly is leveraging her life, work and investing experience to create diversity and equity in the startup ecosystem amongst founders as well as investors and LPs.
Join us in recognizing women leaders from all over the world as we host our global events featuring women leaders & founders #SGWomen
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