Brit Fitzpatrick

Brit Fitzpatrick is an award-winning innovation strategist and ecosystem builder with over a decade of experience connecting historically overlooked founders to the capital, networks, and systems they’ve long been excluded from. She currently leads Data & Impact at All Raise, where she drives data strategy, impact measurement, and data-driven storytelling to accelerate the success of women and nonbinary investors. All Raise exists to reshape culture, capital flows, and decision-making power in venture capital—unlocking stronger returns and market-shaping innovation. Brit is best known as the creator of #ProjectDiane, the first national dataset tracking venture capital investments in Black women founders—research that transformed how the industry measures equity. Her work has helped over 150 founders raise more than $50 million in capital and secured an additional $23 million to grow inclusive entrepreneurship infrastructure. She has served as a U.S. Department of Commerce appointee, built one of the first SaaS mentoring platforms, and launched programs that have created more than 800 innovation jobs. Brit also serves on the External Review Board for the NIH REACH Hub at Vanderbilt University, guiding commercialization strategy for federally funded medical innovations. She brings a journalist’s curiosity and a strategist’s rigor to every conversation about tech, equity, and ecosystem design—using data as both a mirror and a map to help startups and investors redesign the systems that shape who gets funded and why.