Rasya Ramakrishnan, Founder & Managing Partner

As a high school student with a passion for business and technology, Rasya constantly searched for opportunities to develop her interests and skills. While serving as the Executive Director of Frisco Ignite, a nonprofit organization, she launched Flaer, a nonprofit matchmaking platform, to mitigate an issue nonprofit directors like herself face, and this began to expose her firsthand with the challenges entrepreneurs and startups face in getting their ideas off the ground. 

Rasya realized that access to financing can make or break early-stage ventures. This led her to conduct an independent study focused on venture capital and how investors evaluate new companies, but she quickly learned how little representation women had in this space, with only 7% of all venture capitalists being women. Eager to share this knowledge, Rasya joined Girls into VC, a program that introduces high school and college students, especially young women, to the world of venture capital through fellowships and other learning opportunities. 

To do the business is to know the business, so through these experiences, Rasya is extremely excited to take her venture capital journey to the next level by being able to share her knowledge to increase the percentage of capital provided to women!