The Power of Community: Welcoming VP3s to the Republic Venture Partner family

Republic’s core mission to support founders is urgent in a time of chaos, and we need help to get there.

Founding and fundraising for a startup is grinding work that isn’t for the faint of heart. But no matter how tough you are, having a supportive community of champions interested in watching you shine is crucial to any company’s success. Republic investors are a dynamic group of individuals with varied backgrounds and experience, but they all share one common trait: a passion for supporting founders.

It is therefore my great pleasure to introduce the third cohort of Venture Partners (“VPs”), a group of talented individuals who have agreed to support Republic in the course of their own impressive careers. They are mission-driven investors motivated to create more opportunities for diverse founders to access resources critical to their success. They make investments across verticals and stages, and have an acute focus on serving diverse founders to get more innovative companies off the ground. In addition to being supportive and energetic founder champions, they are also Olympians, veterans, world travelers, athletes, artists, and polyglots.

I have learned incredible lessons about community power from our Venture Partners, which started with a 2019 pilot followed…