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

Mascarenis and this is our Wednesday show where this time we're nashing down

to a duo thinking about their work and unpacking the rest.

Today we're talking to a pair that has been investing exclusively in gap closing impact startups

and broadening the definition of success since

2011. Welcome to the podcast Frida K-Pore Klein and Mitch K-Pore. So a little

background on both

mitch and Frida, like I said, since 2011, they've been investing in gap-closing

impact startups.

But oh my gosh, they are such a huge part of both

text history and text present.

So, Mitch, he founded the Lotus Development Corporation and designed the and He also co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation is the founding chair of the Mozilla

Foundation and does a ton of other things that are about empowering students to deepen

their talents and pursue STEM careers.

Frida, meanwhile, is a badass in her own right.

She cares a lot about data and the empirical background of the way we think about things.

She is the founder of Smash, which-ramp students into the world of

tech. She co-founded the Alliance Against Sexual Coercion in 1976 which is the

first organization of the US to address sexual harassment. She has a PhD in social policy and research

and is a member of the Obama Foundation Tech Policy Council,

the UC Berkeley Chancellor's Board of Visitors,

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