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Mosi Mosquera

Lead Investment Officer at IDB Lab | Innovation leader and ecosystem promoter | Investment Committee, Director & Angel investor | Songwriter and singer

Mosi Mosquera: Senior Investment Officer at IDB Lab and Director at The Board Perú

Mosi Mosquera is a senior investment officer at IDB Lab, the innovation laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), where she has been working for over 14 years.25 In this role, she finances and provides knowledge for the development of high-impact social entrepreneurship projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.1

Mosquera is also the Director of The Board Perú, a position she has held since August 2019.235 The Board Perú is a company that provides mentoring and advisory services to startups and entrepreneurs.

Prior to her current roles, Mosquera worked in various positions at the IDB, including projects with the governments of Mercosur countries and the Peruvian Ministry of Economy and Finance.1 She has over 20 years of experience focusing on entrepreneurship, innovation, and women's economic empowerment.4

Mosquera holds a degree in Economics from the University of Lima and has a Master's degree in Finance and a Master's degree in Quality Management, Environment, and Occupational Health.4 In addition to her professional career, she is also a singer and has released her music on popular platforms.1

Highlights

Aug 13 · linkedin

Happy to share with you this part of myself that I combine with the VC industry work I do. My new song: El espacio entre tú y yo (the space between us), reminds us the importance of filling out our lives with stories and moments, filling out our senses, our souls and our minds with memories. I hope you enjoy it! ✨

https://lnkd.in/eZcMVdEe

Jul 26 · linkedin

The VC industry and the gender gap

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to be in South Summit Madrid in conversation about that with Iris Parra , Anna Fedulow and Stefan Bollier . Reducing the gender gap in the venture capital (VC) industry is crucial for fostering diversity and innovation. Here are some takeaways about the main challenges, follow up questions and strategies to take action and address this challenge:

  1. There are still too few women in the industry as GP partners, investment committees, investors, board members, angel networks boards. But why and how can we change that? Let´s encourage more women to participate in VC as investors, partners, and decision-makers, by creating networks and platforms to support them and increase their visibility, influencing the industry.
  2. There are still too few women founders looking for investments in funds or angel networks. Is it the connections, is it the type of business? What is the success ratio on raising capital of women and men? In that sense, is it an absolute or a relative gender gap? Let´s increase women as investors, and showcase success stories of women founders rasing capital.

Limited Partners (LPs) play a key role in shaping the VC industry. They can actively seek out well-balanced teams when investing in VC funds or companies. By prioritizing diversity and inclusion, LPs can set standards and promote good practices throughout the industry. IDB Lab intentionally makes efforts to find well balanced teams when investing in VC funds and companies.

LPs are crucial to assure well balanced teams and decision makers in VC funds. Also, to assure that that commitment maintains during the fund´s life, and it is mainstreamed to their investments. LPs can help setting better standards, gather information and knowledge, and showcasing and disseminating good practices in relation to this matter. As institutions, but also as individuals we can take action aiming to create a more inclusive and equitable VC ecosystem that benefits both female entrepreneurs/investors and the industry as a whole.

Related Questions

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Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain