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Actress Priyanka Chopra is excited to
embark on a new chapter as an investor in
tech start-up Holberton School, a coding
education company, as well as in dating
and social media app Bumble.
This is also an effort on her part to help
change the tech industry's gender disparity.
WOW! Actress Priyanka Chopra Is All Set To
Debut As A Business Woman!
"A new chapter for me! I am so excited to
partner with Bumble and Holberton School
as an investor. I'm honoured to join two
companies that strive to expand gender
diversity in the tech space, and make a
social impact for the greater good... let's do
this, Priyanka tweeted on Thursday.
It is her first project as a start-up investor,
and Priyanka recently toured the San
Francisco home of her new portfolio
company the school which uses projects
and group learning instead of more
traditional courses, to teach software
development, according to The New York
Times.
The actress' investment in Holberton is part
of an $8.2 million round of funding for
Holberton that closed in April. She will join
the company's board of advisers, and will
emphasise support for Holberton's mission
to educate people from underprivileged
backgrounds.
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Her investments will skew heavily toward
companies with an element of social
impact, and companies founded by women.
"I don't want to just be one of those people
who's like, Yeah, I want to be on the tech
bandwagon how are they making so
much money?' It's not about that, said
Priyanka, who is engaged to American
singer Nick Jonas, has been squeezing in
meetings with start-up founders and lined
up future investments in between her
hectic schedules.
"Geeks are taking over the world. If they
haven't already, said the Quantico star,
who has joined the bandwagon of
celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, Leonardo
DiCaprio, who have invested in tech start-
ups too.
Priyanka said she did not yet know how
many deals she would do or how much
money she would invest, but she does plan
on building a portfolio.
Her second investment is in Bumble, a
dating and social media app founded by
Whitney Wolfe Herd. She plans to help
promote Bumble's launch in India in the
coming months, reported The New York
Times.
Priyanka was introduced to tech investing
by her manager Anjula Acharia, a founder
and angel investor who spent time as an
entrepreneur-in-residence and partner at
Trinity Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture
capital firm. The two have worked together
since 2010.
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embark on a new chapter as an investor in
tech start-up Holberton School, a coding
education company, as well as in dating
and social media app Bumble.
This is also an effort on her part to help
change the tech industry's gender disparity.
WOW! Actress Priyanka Chopra Is All Set To
Debut As A Business Woman!
"A new chapter for me! I am so excited to
partner with Bumble and Holberton School
as an investor. I'm honoured to join two
companies that strive to expand gender
diversity in the tech space, and make a
social impact for the greater good... let's do
this, Priyanka tweeted on Thursday.
It is her first project as a start-up investor,
and Priyanka recently toured the San
Francisco home of her new portfolio
company the school which uses projects
and group learning instead of more
traditional courses, to teach software
development, according to The New York
Times.
The actress' investment in Holberton is part
of an $8.2 million round of funding for
Holberton that closed in April. She will join
the company's board of advisers, and will
emphasise support for Holberton's mission
to educate people from underprivileged
backgrounds.
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Daughter Sara Ali Khan!
Her investments will skew heavily toward
companies with an element of social
impact, and companies founded by women.
"I don't want to just be one of those people
who's like, Yeah, I want to be on the tech
bandwagon how are they making so
much money?' It's not about that, said
Priyanka, who is engaged to American
singer Nick Jonas, has been squeezing in
meetings with start-up founders and lined
up future investments in between her
hectic schedules.
"Geeks are taking over the world. If they
haven't already, said the Quantico star,
who has joined the bandwagon of
celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, Leonardo
DiCaprio, who have invested in tech start-
ups too.
Priyanka said she did not yet know how
many deals she would do or how much
money she would invest, but she does plan
on building a portfolio.
Her second investment is in Bumble, a
dating and social media app founded by
Whitney Wolfe Herd. She plans to help
promote Bumble's launch in India in the
coming months, reported The New York
Times.
Priyanka was introduced to tech investing
by her manager Anjula Acharia, a founder
and angel investor who spent time as an
entrepreneur-in-residence and partner at
Trinity Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture
capital firm. The two have worked together
since 2010.
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