This week, Natasha interviewed Elana Berkowitz, founding partner at Springbank Collective and an early-stage investor working to close the gender gap.

Following with our theme of covering the silent changemakers in tech, Berkowitz has done much more than invest: she’s an advisor at Eric Shmidt’s office, a social entrepreneur who was a former innovator in residence at CARE, former Obama Administration technology policy official across the Obama-Biden Transition Team.

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As always, the full Equity crew will be back on Friday, but you can keep up with us in the meantime on Twitter @EquityPod.

For more on Plume, check out Found's interview with the company's co-founders Jerrica Kirkley and Matthew Wetschler!

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