Mitch Kapor

Mitch Kapor is the Brooklyn-born software pioneer who created Lotus 1-2-3 - the killer app that made the IBM PC indispensable - then co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation to protect digital civil liberties, and eventually built Kapor Capital into one of venture capital's most deliberately diverse funds. At 74, he made headlines completing the MIT Sloan master's degree he started in 1979 before leaving to launch Lotus. He and his wife Freada Kapor Klein run Kapor Capital from Oakland, investing in founders building tech for underserved communities - arguing that inclusion isn't charity, it's good business.