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Kesha Cash
Kesha Cash is the Founder and General Partner of Impact America Fund, the largest VC firm in America run entirely by a Black woman. Based in Oakland, California, she manages $65 million across two funds, backing technology-enabled startups that serve low-to-moderate income and overlooked communities. Her portfolio includes Esusu (a fintech unicorn), Mayvenn, SoLo Funds, and CareAcademy. A former Wall Street analyst who grew up on a farm in South Carolina and was the first in her family to attend college, Cash draws on lived experience of economic inequality to identify billion-dollar opportunities that traditional investors routinely miss.
Sydney Thomas
Sydney Thomas is the Founding General Partner of Symphonic Capital, a $13.5M debut fund investing at the intersection of health, wealth, and climate resilience for the 99%. She was the first hire at Precursor Ventures in 2016, scaled the firm from 10 investments to 400+ and $200M+ AUM over seven years, and then left to build on her own terms. She created the landmark Black Women in VC list, co-founded the Women of Color in VC network, and relocated from San Francisco to her hometown of San Diego to anchor her firm there. A Kauffman Fellow, Duke and Berkeley Haas alum, she backs pre-seed founders outside coastal tech hubs who are building essential systems for people the industry routinely ignores.