Claire Diaz Ortiz

As a scout focused on Latin America, Claire has written checks into fintech, web3 and consumer companies.

Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm that has offices in 25 major startup cities across 6 continents. To date, Antler has invested in over 600 companies globally across 30 different industries. Of these companies, 34% have at least one female co-founder, and the founders represent 70 nationalities.

Kauffman Fellows is the premier leadership organization in innovation & capital formation, with graduates leading venture capital, government, corporate, university, and startup innovation efforts globally. More than 520 Fellows now lead more than 200 venture capital firms representing funds that invest billions into startups in more than 42 countries around the world.

Claire is an early stage investor primarily focused on Latin America & the US. As a VC, angel, and scout she has invested in 60+ companies. She was formerly a partner at a VC fund in LatAm and is currently a scout for Kleiner Perkins, an advisor to Antler Global, and the startups committee chair at VC3, a DAO of 160+ professional venture capitalists investing in web3.

Claire is the bestselling author of 9 books that have been translated into 11 languages, including One Minute Mentoring (Harper Collins 2017), co-authored with her mentor and legendary management guru, Ken Blanchard. Her most recent book was Social Media Success for Every Brand, also by Harper Collins.

Magma Partners is a seed stage venture capital fund in Latin America. As an investing partner, Claire started Brava, Magma's initiative to invest in female founders, the first initiative of its kind in LatAm, which deployed seed and pre-seed checks to 20+ women founders. As the only investing partner in LatAm from Silicon Valley, Claire loved nothing more twisting the arm of an international VC fund to enter LatAm for the first time as a co-investor in one of her awesome portfolio companies.

Claire has delivered keynote speeches, commencement speeches, and workshops on six continents (all her fingers remain crossed for McMurdo Station!). She is currently represented by London Speaker Bureau.

Claire was an early employee at Twitter, where she was first hired to lead corporate social innovation. In Claire's time at Twitter, she was called everything from “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” (Wired) and “Twitter’s Pontiff Recruitment Chief” (The Washington Post) to a “Force for Good” (Forbes) and one of the “Ten Most Generous in Social Media” (Fast Company). In her social innovation work, she envisioned, built, and directed all Twitter’s social good initiatives, including the Twitter for Nonprofits and Twitter Ads for Good programs. On the side of growth marketing, she on-boarded high-profile individuals to the platform, including the Pope and Warren Buffet.

Claire co-founded Hope Runs, a non-profit organization based in Kenya that used running to empower AIDS orphans with the tools of personal health, social entrepreneurship, and education. Featured in Runner's World Magazine and other publications, Hope Runs was in operation from 2006 - 2019. One of Claire's books, also entitled Hope Runs, tells the story of the organization.

Upon completion of an undergraduate and graduate degree at Stanford, Claire spent several years as a "wandering delinquent" (her father's words), working an impressively crappy online job that paid for her to travel to random countries. Best time of her life!