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Freada Kapor Klein (born August 26, 1952) is an American venture capitalist, social policy researcher and philanthropist. As a partner at Kapor Capital and the Kapor Center for Social Impact , she is known for efforts to diversify the technology workforce through activism and investments .
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Freada Kapor Klein, PhD is an entrepreneur, activist, and pioneer in the field of organizational culture and diversity. As a Founding Partner at Kapor Capital, Freada invests in seed-stage tech startups that create positive social impact by closing gaps of access, opportunity, or outcome for low-income communities and communities of color. The ...
The Kapor Center’s work focuses at the intersection of racial justice and technology to create a more inclusive technology sector for all. We work to intentionally dismantle barriers to tech and deployment of technologies across the Leaky Tech Pipeline through research-driven practices, gap-closing investments, increased access to computer science education, supporting and partnering with ...
Freada Kapor Klein is the board chair the Level Playing Field Institute and an entrepreneur, activist and pioneer in the field of organizational culture and diversity. As founder of LPFI and co-founder of the SMASH Academy, Freada is a nationally recognized authority on issues of bias, harassment, and diversity.
On Sunday mornings in the early ’70s, Freada Kapor Klein could be found sitting on her living room floor talking on the phone to strangers. She was an undergraduate at Berkeley and a trained peer counselor for Bay Area Women Against Rape, one of the country’s first rape crisis call centers. On those Sunday mornings, as she fielded calls ...
For venture capitalist and social policy researcher Freada Kapor Klein ’74, wasting human potential is profoundly illogical. A recent $5 million gift to support diversity in STEM at Berkeley builds on her decades-long commitment to ensuring equal access to opportunity by leveraging the power of science and math.
Jan 5, 2024 · Freada Kapor Klein is an entrepreneur and activist focused on organizational culture and diversity. She cofounded the first organization in the US to address sexual harassment in 1976, and SMASH.org in 2003, which provides the resources and support to ensure that underrepresented students of color thrive in STEM fields. As a partner at Kapor Capital, Freada […]
