Laura Moreno Lucas
General Partner, Latitude Ventures · Former Managing Director, Nasdaq · Author, Latinas in VC
Conversations
The same ladder at every rung
How the capital markets ladder looks identical at every rung, from the first pre-seed check to the closing IPO bell, and why Latino founders need investors who have stood at both ends.
Transcript →In their words
The capital markets journey, whether it's at the early stage or the later stage, what I call the entire capital ladder. It's different, but it's the same.C·013
Corridor Context
Laura Moreno Lucas is a general partner at Latitude Ventures, the largest early-stage fund in the United States investing in US Latino founders. Before venture, she was a managing director at Nasdaq, where she led IPOs for Beyond Meat, Lyft, Airbnb, and The RealReal. She is a former founder with an exit, and the author of Latinas in VC, a book spotlighting thirty-one women investors reshaping access to capital.
The arc they moved through
A warm, rapid-fire start. Pride, personality, and the one word in each guest's language that English can't touch.
Where they come from, and how it shaped the way they build, invest, and lead. Terroir over resume.
The real work. The honest business, the hard decisions, the bet they're actually making. Host as peer, not fan.
The jam session. Escalating questions, playful to profound, and one answer the guest can save "pa' la sobremesa."
The same closing question, every guest, forever: who held the door open for you, and whose name goes on the door you're holding open?