Cisco: Investing in Partnerships for Inclusion and Innovation

Tanya Van Court is the founder and CEO of Goalsetter, a digital health company that aims to improve the health and quality of life for mothers, babies, and those who love them.

She's also the founder and CEO of Astia, a venture capital firm that aims to level the investment playing field for companies led by women, and she's just been named one of Bloomberg's "most influential women in business" for 2023.

The honor comes after Astia reviewed 1,033 startups and found that just 0.3% of them were led by black or Latina women, and that just 3% of venture capital is invested in companies led by black or Latina women, Bloomberg reports.

Astia's mission is "to level the investment playing field for companies led by women, with particular emphasis on eradicating bias in the decision-making process by leveraging technical tools and proven processes," the firm says on its website.

Astia's investment team came to the table with the expertise, they made calls on my behalf, and took investor meetings with me," Van Court tells Bloomberg.

"Within mere four months Astia saying yes, we had significant investors on our cap table, and we achieved an oversubscribed round."

Astia has invested in 24 companies so far, and

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