In todays episode you'll hear my interview with William Crowder, Managing Partner of Aperture Venture Capital, which is a VC for the multicultural mainstream that backs founders that leverage financial innovation to help individuals and businesses thrive.

In todays episode we discuss:

• How Aperture's engagement model is driving startup success with strategic and operational support
• The missed opportunities due to the lack of diversity in the investment industry
• Securing investments through strategic connections and engagement
• The importance of venture capital firms as a source of knowledge and connection for startups to thrive.
• Why founders need to make investors aware of the problem their company is solving and how it plans to do so.
• What he calls the "magic email"

All that and more on in this episode.