Freada Kapor Klein

Freada Kapor Klein, Ph.D., is an entrepreneur and investor focused on gap-closing startups and strategies. As a Founding Partner at Kapor Capital, Freada invested in seed-stage tech startups that create positive social outcomes and achieved top-quartile financial returns. She is Co-Chair at the Kapor Center, which strives to make the technology ecosystem and entrepreneurship diverse and inclusive. Early in her career, she co-founded the U.S.’s first organization to address sexual harassment in 1976 and was part of the founding team of the Hollywood Commission chaired by Anita Hill. Freada launched SMASH.org in 2003, which provides comprehensive resources to ensure that underrepresented students thrive in STEM. Freada serves on startup and non-profit boards, including the UC Berkeley's Chancellor’s Board of Visitors and the Nat’l Board of the NAACP where she has helped launch NAACP Capital, a $200M fund of funds. Often quoted in the press, she gave a TED talk, How to Use Venture Capital for Good, and co-authored Closing the Equity Gap: Creating Wealth and Fostering Justice in Startup Investing with her husband, Mitch Kapor.