Mandela Schumacher-Hodge Dixon

Mandela is the CEO of All Raise, a non-profit on a mission to accelerate the success of female and nonbinary investors, founders, and operators in tech. Mandela’s career in the tech industry began when she dropped out of her PhD program at the age of 25 to start her own company and became one of the first Black women to raise capital in Silicon Valley. Before All Raise, Mandela was the Founder and CEO of Founder Gym, the top training program teaching underrepresented founders how to raise venture capital. She was also the founding Portfolio Services Director at Kapor Capital and the Global Director of Startup Weekend Education (acq. by Techstars). Mandela is an active angel investor, limited partner, Sequoia Capital Scout, and an inaugural member of First Round Capital’s Angel Track program. Mandela has appeared on more than 150 stages and in more than 100 publications and was recognized as one of Entrepreneur magazine’s 100 Most Powerful Women, a Forbes 30 Under 30 awardee, and LinkedIn’s Top 10 Voices in Venture Capital and Startups. She received a Bachelor’s Degree in Intercultural Communications from Pepperdine University, a Masters Degree in Education and Administration & Policy, and was a PhD candidate in Urban Schooling at UCLA.