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Equity

Caretakers, ageism and other topics venture needs to stop overlooking

Equity

TechCrunch

Entrepreneurship, Business News, News, Business, Technology

4.2 • 372 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week, Natasha interviewed Elana Berkowitz, founding partner at Springbank Collective and an early-stage investor working to close the gender gap. Following with our theme of covering the silent changemakers in tech, Berkowitz has done much more than invest: she’s an advisor at Eric Shmidt’s office, a social entrepreneur who was a former innovator in residence at CARE, former Obama Administration technology policy official across the Obama-Biden Transition Team. We spoke about: Building a venture firm that wants to disrupt the way the world thinks about care What people are missing when they talk about women's health The big opportunities out there to keep women in the workforce (and the low hanging fruit that we should all be thinking about) As always, the full Equity crew will be back on Friday, but you can keep up with us in the meantime on Twitter @EquityPod. For more on Plume, check out Found's interview with the company's co-founders Jerrica Kirkley and Matthew Wetschler! Equity drops at 10:00 a.m. PT every Monday and at 7:00 a.m. PT on Wednesdays and Fridays, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. TechCrunch also has a great show on crypto, a show that interviews founders, one that details how our stories come together and more! Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.1

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. I'm Natasha Masquerainis and this is our Wednesday show

0:20.9

where we niche down to a single person, think about their work and

0:23.9

unpack the rest. I am so excited for today we are talking to Ilana Berkowitz,

0:28.8

the founding partner at Springbank Collective, and an early-stage investor who is working to close the gender gap.

0:34.8

But she does much more than just that.

0:37.4

She has been an advisor at Eric Schmidt's office, a social entrepreneur who is a former

0:41.5

innovator in residence at Care, a former Obama administration

0:45.5

tech policy official across the Obama-Biden transition team, and I hear she's making a spicy

0:51.0

shrimp for dinner tonight, so apparently a chef as well.

0:54.5

Alana welcome to equity. Thank you so much for having me now I feel a lot of

0:59.0

pressure to actually cook that meal that I told you about so thank you for putting me on blast.

1:03.5

I know we're going to have to fact check you.

1:05.5

It is Valentine's Day.

1:06.5

So thank you for spending the morning talking about something that obviously gets both of us,

1:10.5

super flustered and excited and just tech, the most romantic thing in the world.

1:15.2

Absolutely. Well, tech, once you add in caregiving and aging, it's just like all kinds of romantic

1:21.2

sexiness all over the place.

1:23.0

Love, love, love.

1:24.7

We are gonna talk today about obviously your background motivated you

1:27.6

to start, spring back collective,

1:30.3

you know, where tech does and doesn't fit

1:32.0

into solving the problem and what opportunities there are to keep women in the workforce

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