Kim Folsom is a serial entrepreneur and BC fund manager. She founded two accelerators, The LIFT Development Enterprises, Inc. and co- founder Founders First Capital Partners, a small business growth accelerator and revenue based venture fund focused on helping underserved employer-based small businesses with funding to meet exponential growth.

She is a high-tech executive and serial entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience growing pioneering tech companies. She has experience founding, leading and building startups for where she has raised over $30 million an institutional venture financing.

In this episode, Kim shares tips to up level your start-up and how to build up the next generation of diverse start-up leaders.

• 02:21– Kim walks us through how she gets involved in the diversity space of investment.
• 03:52– Kim talks about gender investing gap and its impact on woman entrepreneurs
• 05:22– How the sibling rivalry of being a middlechild helped Kim thrive on the industries that she chose.
• 06:57 – How having that big hairy audacious goal can help as a motivator and driver for you to reach your goal.
• 08:40 – How gender gap inspired Kim to put up her accelerator companies?
• 12:40 – How mentoring underserved diverse business owners with a coach same as their ethnicity can help them succeed.
• 17:29 – What is results driven financing is all about?
• 24:44– How revenue based accelerator differ from a traditional business model?
• 26:16– What type of investors do you see in the asset class revenue based private equity funds?
• 28:14– What are the new solution that is entering the market for gaining access to risk capital for diverse founders?
• 30:00– What’s more for Kim?
• 34:08– Final Four Rapid Fire
• 39:04– Silvia’s episode recap

Full show notes: http://www.sheinvests.com/9