Miriam Rivera Overview

  • Investor Type
  • Angel

  • Status
  • Active

  • Investments
  • 6

  • Portfolio
  • 3

  • Exits
  • 3

Exits

Miriam Rivera General Information

Description

Ms. Miriam Rivera is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director at Ulu Ventures. She serves as a Board Member at Acumen America. She also serves as an Advisor at Supply Change Capital. She serves as a Board Member & Advisor at Backer. She is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairperson of the Board at Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs. She served as Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel at Minerva. She also served as a Trustee at Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. She served as an Investment Committee Member at Acumen Fund. She serves as a Global Advisor at Alter Global. She is also the co-founder and co-president of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs, an "open-source network" of Stanford alumni investors and entrepreneurs. She has taught in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program in the School of Engineering on start-up board issues and is a mentor in entrepreneurship at the Stanford GSB. She is also a Kauffman Fellow in venture capital. She has worked at all stages of new ventures, from formation to Fortune 500 public company Google Inc. At Google, she was the second attorney and helped build the legal team from 2 to over 150 worldwide. She increased Google's revenue velocity by re-engineering the sales contracting process to allow 80+% of ad deals to close in three days (50% in one day), helping revenue grow from $85M in revenue to $10B in five years. She was Google's first internally promoted VP in an SG&A function (and the second internally promoted VP in a non-engineering function) as Vice President/ Deputy General Counsel. Prior to joining in 2001, she served as in-house counsel for Ariba and co-founded Outcome Software (an angel and venture-backed software company). At Outcome, she acted as Secretary to the Board and VP of finance, legal, and business operations. Previously, she worked as a strategy consultant for Accenture and an associate in the business and technology practice at the law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. In 2008, she received the Jerry A. Porras Leadership Award from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 2006, the Hispanic National Bar Association voted her "Latina Lawyer of the Year", and Hispanic.Net named her "Latina Executive of the Year". She was also selected by Corporate Counsel magazine as one of the top 10 corporate attorneys in the United States in 2005. In Spring 2011, the Google Legal department she helped founded was named 2011 Best Legal Department by Corporate Counsel magazine and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal voted her one of the top 100 Women of Influence in Silicon Valley. She serves as an Advisor at TeachFX and Ensemble VC. She graduated from Stanford University where she earned the AB, AM, and JD/MBA degrees.

Business Details

Investor Status
Actively Seeking New Investments
Primary Investor Type
Angel (individual)
Corporate Office
  • San Francisco, CA
  • United States

Miriam Rivera Investments (6)

Company Name Deal Date Deal Type Deal Size Industry Company Stage Lead Partner
BetterUp 08-Oct-2021 Later Stage VC Educational Software Generating Revenue
SoFi 07-Jan-2021 Consumer Finance Generating Revenue
Ellevest 01-Jul-2017 Financial Software Generating Revenue
InsideMaps 01-Jun-2015 Real Estate Services (B2C) Generating Revenue
Fidelis Education 15-Feb-2013 Early Stage VC Educational Software Generating Revenue
Hashed (Application Software) Angel (individual) Application Software Out of Business

Miriam Rivera Exits (3)

Company Name Exit Date Exit Type Exit Size
Fidelis Education 01-Dec-2022 Secondary Transaction - Private
Hashed (Application Software) 18-Apr-2022
SoFi 01-Jun-2021

Miriam Rivera Investments by Industry, Year, and Region

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Miriam Rivera Co-Investors (38)

Name With Exits Lead Partner Series Industry
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Miriam Rivera FAQs

  • Who is Miriam Rivera?

    Miriam Rivera is an angel Investor who has made 6 investments.

  • What kind of investor is Miriam Rivera?

    Miriam Rivera is an angel investor.

  • What does Miriam Rivera do?

    As an angel investor, Miriam Rivera invests personal money into promising companies, typically in exchange for equity.

  • What has Miriam Rivera invested in?

    Miriam Rivera has made numerous investments in companies like BetterUp, SoFi, and Ellevest within the Educational Software, Consumer Finance, and Financial Software industries.

  • What has Miriam Rivera invested in recently?

    Miriam Rivera's latest investment was on 08-Oct-2021 in BetterUp, a company within the Educational Software industry.

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