Harry Briggs, OMERS Ventures: 🔦 Community Spotlight 🔦
🔎 A series of in-depth interviews to get to know key venture capital players. Those in the Diversity VC community who understand the positive power of DEI to remain on top in investing.
Welcome to your inaugural Diversity VC 🔦Community Spotlight🔦
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We are delighted that the first spotlight is on the brilliant Harry Briggs at OMERS Ventures.
Harry is Managing Partner at OMERS Ventures and a Diversity VC day one supporter and advisor.
We are delighted to introduce you to what makes Harry tick, what drives his investment thesis and what #diversityinventure really means.
Some highlights for us in this wide-ranging interview included;
- The era-defining microchip moment
- Diverse founders are just as capable of delivering “fund-returner” outcomes
- Investors “pattern-matching” perpetuates the status quo
- Let's "hack" diversity and create more “FOMO”
“Diverse success stories exist and VCs and LPs don’t want to miss out”
We'll leave you to read about his rule to live by, as well as the best advice he's ever been given.
👇 Let Harry know what you are thinking in the comments below.
