Podcast appearances and mentions of mariah lichtenstern

Hosts Josh Albert and Sarah England sit down with Mariah Lichtenstern, founding partner of DiverseCity Ventures. A graduate of Berkeley, USC, and UCLA, Mariah surrounds herself with everything start ups and diversity. Too many to list, Mariah serves on 2 boards, advises on several initiatives, and has been recognized for her work by Forbes, Crunchbase, inPitchbook, and Business Insider. But you can find her at the intersection of technology, entertainment, and venture capital. This episode is your reminder that you can find alignment in your personal and professional values. Please rate, subscribe, and share this podcast with everyone you know. We can be found on Anchor, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts. Topics covered in this episode: Mariah Lichtenstern LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariahlichtenstern/ DiverseCity Ventures - https://www.diversecityv.com/ Book, mastery - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastery_(book) National VC University program - https://nvca.org/event/vc-university/ The growth factory - https://growthfactory.us/ Black Star Fund - https://blackstar.fund/ Stealth mode (and other networking groups) Taro's - https://mikunisushi.com/locations/arden-fair/ Comstock's magazine - https://www.comstocksmag.com/ Maya Angelou - https://www.mayaangelou.com/ A huge Thank You to Our Sponsors and Partners: UC Davis Graduate School of Management, Raley's, our Technical Producer, Bob Stobener, and Metro Edge.

Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It’s still hurting minorities today. Inequality in the form of policy, is baked into the system and continues to shape our economy widening the wealth gap. My special guest, Mariah Lichtenstern-Walebowa and I will discuss the history of redlining, its impact on black wealth, entrepreneurship, and the wealth gap today and what we must do about it. At the intersection of technology, entertainment, and venture capital, Mariah Lichtenstern accelerates positive social, economic, and environmental impact through entrepreneurship. An alumna of UC Berkeley, USC, and UCLA, she is the Founding Partner of DiverseCity Ventures and Managing Director of the Founder Institute, Sacramento, California chapter, which was recognized by Forbes Magazine as the 3rd most gender diverse chapter in the world. TUNE IN TO SELLING SACRAMENTO: Set your timers for 1 p.m. EVERY WEDNESDAY!

Mariah Lichtenstern is a founding partner and managing director of DiverseCity Ventures, a firm that believes innovation thrives where diverse perspectives intersect. They focus on backing technology-enabled companies that have positive social, economic, or environmental impact, inclusive teams, and demonstrate high potential for outsized returns. This week, Alec and Mariah discuss how she got to where she is today, how we can use our professional influence for positive social change, as well as how far social justice has come but there is still a long road ahead. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/diversevc/support

Mariah Lichtenstern is a founding partner and managing director of DiverseCity Ventures, a firm that believes innovation thrives where diverse perspectives intersect. They focus on backing technology-enabled companies that have positive social, economic, or environmental impact, inclusive teams, and demonstrate high potential for outsized returns. This week, Alec and Mariah discuss how she got to where she is today, how we can use our professional influence for positive social change, as well as how far social justice has come but there is still a long road ahead. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/diversevc/support

Here is your chance to catch my conversation with the amazing Mariah Lichtenstern, Founding Partner of DiverseCity Ventures and Managing Director of the Founder Institute. Mariah has a passion for closing the tech funding gap and eliminate startup redlining. She has set out to challenge the SEC status quo to open funding access and opportunities to black and brown creators. Redlining and systemic racism permeates every aspect of our community including real estate, housing and more. It is a huge barrier building wealth in black and brown communities. Take notes fam, this conversation was very enlightening. Stop Startup Redlining, sign the petition at www.techequityfunding.com This episode was sponsored by Everyone’s Place, Sacramento’s only mobile acupuncture clinic operated by Dr. Tenisha Dandridge. Follow our sponsor and guests on social media: @everyonesplace @lightedstar

From fund managers and accredited investors to startup founders and their boards, diversity has been severely lacking in the venture capital community since inception. As a result, the US has lost billions of dollars of untapped economic opportunity and sidelined immense amounts of valuable human capital.In this episode, Mariah Lichtenstern, Emerging Manager and Founding Partner of DiverseCity Ventures, joins us to talk about the work she has done over the course of her career and, more recently as an Aspen Tech Policy fellow, to address these challenges around equitable access to capital. This episode is packed full of information and resources and infused with Mariah's positive, empowering and solution-oriented approach to creating a better future. Her message of “diversity includes you” provides space for us all to come together and build companies and communities that embrace diverse perspectives and truly create a rising tide that lifts all boats.Learn more about the issues and sign the opportunity pledge at Techfundingequity.com.If you would like to learn more about Mariah Lichtenstern, visit her websites and social media below to be inspired!  https://www.diversecityv.com/ https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/team/mariah-lichtenstern/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariahlichtenstern https://twitter.com/lightedstar If this episode inspires you to be part of the movement, and you believe, like me, that entrepreneurs are the answer to our future, message me so we can join forces to support building truly great companies in our region. Subscribe to my channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCom_...  -  Mark Haney is a serial entrepreneur that has experience growing companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He is currently the CDO and founder of HaneyBiz  -  Instagram: http://instagram.com/themarkhaney  Facebook: www.facebook.com/themarkhaney  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markehaney  Website: http://haneybiz.com  Audio Boom: https://audioboom.com/channels/5005273  Twitter: http://twitter.com/themarkhaney

At the intersection of technology, entertainment, and venture capital, Mariah Lichtenstern addresses social, economic, and environmental equity through entrepreneurship. Mariah is the Founding Partner of DiverseCity Ventures and Managing Director of the Founder Institute, Sacramento Chapter. She is a member of UCLA Ventures, and serves as an advisor for CalSEED CleanTech Fund, Berkeley SkyDeck, and Village Capital Finance Forward US 2019. Connect with GWE: Follow GWE on Instagram Follow GWE on YouTube Follow Steve P. Young on Instagram

** This event was held on February 27, 2019 at Antiquite Midtown in Sacramento ** One of the City of Sacramento’s big initiatives: Come up with the right jobs strategy that boosts all of its neighborhoods, especially those with less-than average employment rates and high poverty. So how is that going? How is Sacramento residents' feedback on the matter being used? What is funding being spent on, and who and where is it benefiting? And how can the City’s government, businesses, nonprofits and us individuals turn these efforts into tangible economic growth and good jobs that boost people’s incomes and improve the neighborhoods they live in? Join us for another “cocktail conversation” with some Californians who are giving their all to boost economic growth in neighborhoods that need it — and find out how you can help them with their efforts. PANELISTS * Melissa Anguiano, economic development manager for the City of Sacramento * Nicholas Haystings - president and executive director of Square Root Academy, a nonprofit that puts on after-school programs and community events in STEM skills for underrepresented students * Mariah Lichtenstern - founding partner and managing director of DiverseCity Ventures, a venture capital firm that funds tech companies run by underserved founders * Tyrone Roderick Williams - director of Sacramento Promise Zone, and director of development for Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency * Dianna Tremblay - Director of Acceleration for ICA Fund Good Jobs, a nonprofit, impact investment firm focused on creating jobs and economic opportunity in San Francisco and Oakland’s inner cities PODCAST PLAY BY PLAY * O to 7:15 min - Intro to California Groundbreakers, and about this topic * 7:15 min - Panelists introduce themselves, and share the most "interesting" job they've had to date * 11:15 min - Details about how the City of Sacramento is going to tackle economic inequality * 18:05 min - What is the Sacramento Promise Zone? * 24:35 min - How STEM skills are expected to secure good jobs -- and how they're being taught in underserved neighborhoods * 28:45 min - What's the landscape like in Sacramento for entrepreneurs from economically-disadvantaged areas who want to start and build businesses? * 34:25 min - How one Bay Area org does it re creating jobs and building economic growth - and how that can be applied here to Sacramento * 41:50 min - How much should city governments do -- and offer -- to lure companies to town and bring jobs to neighborhoods that need them? * 50:45 min - What's the private sector's role in getting jobs and economic growth to underserved neighborhoods -- and what should it be? * 53:30 min - What are efforts to getting economic equality to the City's schools? * 1 hr, 2:45 min - For struggling neighborhoods that are not in a Promise Zone or an Opportunity Zone, how can they get resources and funding to boost their economic growth? * 1 hr, 6:20 min - How do you bring the "entrepreneurial spirit" to residents in neighborhoods who have potential but may not have that type of business background or knowledge? * 1 hr, 16:05 min - What can we, as individuals and as California residents, do to help get economic growth to neighborhoods that need it?

Coming up I've got my friend Mariah Lichtenstern who runs her own venture capital firm to tell you what you should do before you reach out to a VC and when is it the right time to actually do so. Watch Video on YouTube and Subscribe to our Channel: The Right Time to Reach Out to a Venture Capitalist (VC)

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Inspired by Victor Patton’s recent article in the Sacramento Business Journal on diversity, I had the idea to organize a roundtable discussion on diversity for the StartupSac podcast. The main purpose in my mind was to get a group of Black entrepreneurs together in the studio to discuss the issue of diversity from their perspective […]

Not only is Mariah Lichtenstern the founder of a startup, Cineshares, a motion picture marketplace to connect filmmakers and stakeholders, she’s also co-founder and Managing Director at DivereCity Ventures, an impact-oriented micro-VC firm. As if that weren’t enough to have on her plate, she’s also one of the key people involved with bringing Founder Institute […]