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Pocket Sun
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SoGal Ventures
Venture Capital · Entrepreneurship · Diversity in Tech
Speaking Fee
Fee on request
Based In
Canada
Signature Topic
Who Gets Funded and Why
Format
Keynote and Panel
About Pocket
Pocket Sun is the investor on this roster, which gives her a vantage point none of the founders or authors on it have: she decides who gets money.
She co-founded SoGal Ventures at 24, described as the first women-led next-generation venture capital firm, investing in women and diverse founders across the United States and Asia. That cross-border position is unusual and it is most of what makes the session interesting, because the assumptions about what a fundable company looks like differ sharply between those markets.
The material that travels best is the mechanics of capital rather than encouragement. What a partner meeting actually assesses, why strong businesses fail to raise, how pattern matching operates inside a fund even when nobody intends it to, and what a founder can change versus what they cannot. Audiences arrive expecting a diversity talk and get a venture capital talk with diversity as the evidence.
She speaks regularly at corporate and conference events, including the Microsoft CEO Summit, and her topics span startups, funding, venture capital, technology and women in leadership.
She is a strong fit for innovation summits, women's leadership conferences, startup and accelerator programs, and corporate venture or innovation teams that want an outside read on how capital actually behaves. She is the wrong booking for a general motivational slot, because the value is specificity and the audience needs to care about how companies get funded.
Keynote Topics
Who Gets Funded and Why
Building a Fund and a Thesis From Scratch
Investing Across the US and Asia
Diversity as an Investment Case
Best For
- Innovation and venture summits
- Women's leadership and founder conferences
- Startup accelerators and incubator programs
- Corporate venture and innovation teams
- Panels on capital, technology and diversity
Booking Pocket Sun: Frequently Asked Questions
What is Pocket Sun's speaking fee?
Pocket Sun's fee is not published here and is quoted per event. Travel is a larger factor than usual because she works across North America and Asia, so the date and location drive availability as much as price. Format, audience size and whether a panel or office-hours session is attached also affect the quote. Submit an inquiry with those details.
Is this a diversity talk or a venture capital talk?
Primarily a venture capital talk that uses diversity as its evidence. The material is the mechanics of raising money: what a partner meeting assesses, why strong businesses fail to raise, and how pattern matching operates inside a fund even when nobody intends it to. Audiences expecting encouragement get specifics instead.
What does the cross-border perspective add?
SoGal Ventures invests across the United States and Asia, and assumptions about what a fundable company looks like differ sharply between those markets. For an audience operating in one of them, hearing how the same business reads to investors in the other is usually the most useful part of the session.
Who is this session not for?
A general motivational slot. The value here is specificity about how capital behaves, and it needs an audience that cares about how companies get funded. For a room wanting an inspirational arc rather than mechanics, another speaker on this roster will land better.
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