I'll be home.

Jacqueline, I am so excited you are here.

This has been a long time coming.

But before we do an intro and before we hear your brilliance,

I want to read something that you recently posted or something that I had read

recently on Instagram.

So if that's okay with you, I'm going to start here.

Quote.

As the founder of Create Cultivate, there is one stat that I've heard over and over again.

And that is only 2% of funding goes to female founded companies and even less for women

of color-owned businesses.

This is shocking.

But even more shocking is the stats around women and venture capital.

Only 5% of VC partners are women, a staggeringly low number.

And the reality is money goes where money flows.

Deal flow is a huge part of running a fund.

You know who knows you.

This is all part of nature of doing business.

When it comes to fundraising, it's crucial to have more women in power deploying capital

to founders and evening out the deal flow we see, which is why I am so thrilled to introduce

at New Money Ventures, a 20 million consumer fund focused on empowering the next generation

of women.

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