Marcelo Claure
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Not many emerging VC firms bring together the investing experience and entrepreneurial success of the Open Opportunity Fund. Fewer still are committed to harnessing their talents to help create opportunities by driving investment dollars directly to Black and Latino/a founders. Co-founders Marcelo Claure (previous CEO of SoftBank Group International and COO of SoftBank Group Corp, and founder of Brightstar) and Paul Judge (co-founder of Pindrop) spun out of Softbank to launch a new early-stage fund to invest in tech and software companies founded by Black and Latino/a entrepreneurs. With extraordinary relationships from Softbank, they can access the largest universe of minority startup tech firms in the industry, and top quartile performance in their inaugural fund demonstrates their investing capability. The firm has chosen to operate from Atlanta where they can connect with many promising diverse founders seeking capital.
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