Claire Diaz-Ortiz

Fellowship

Fellow

Class

Current Firm

Location

Argentina

Education

In Claire’s work, she has been called everything from “Twitter’s Pontiff Recruitment Chief” (The Washington Post) to a “Force for Good” (Forbes) and “One of the Most Generous People in Social Media” (Fast Company). As CNN said in 2017, “If Twitter has a soul, it probably looks something like Claire Diaz-Ortiz.”

Claire's nine published books include One Minute Mentoring (Harper Collins; with Ken Blanchard) Social Media Success for Every Brand (Harper Collins Leadership), Twitter for Good (Jossey-Bass), and her next untitled book on women startup founders and women startup funders (with Sophia Bendz).

Claire holds an MBA from Oxford University, where she was a Skoll Foundation Scholar for Social Entrepreneurship, and a B.A. and M.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University. As one of the digital world’s earliest social justice activists, Claire used Twitter to build awareness for AIDS orphans in sub-Saharan Africa, and founded Hope Runs, a nonprofit organization in Kenya.

In offbeat superlatives, Claire is known for being the first and only person to ever have the very bad, no good, terrible idea to live-tweet a child’s birth. Claire lives in Argentina with her husband, daughter, and twin boys.

Professional

Claire Diaz-Ortiz is a Latin America-based angel investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she has written nine books that have been translated into 11 languages. Her next book focuses on women founders and funders. Most recently, Claire was a partner at Magma Partners, a seed stage fund in Latin America, where she launched Brava, the first initiative of its kind to invest in women founders across Latin America. In Claire’s work, she has been called everything from “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” (Wired) and “Twitter’s Pontiff Recruitment Chief” (The Washington Post) to a “Force for Good” (Forbes) and “One of the Most Generous People in Social Media” (Fast Company). As CNN said in 2017, “If Twitter has a soul, it probably looks something like Claire Diaz-Ortiz.”Claire nine books include <a href="<https://www.amazon.com/One-Minute-Mentoring-Mentor-Benefit/dp/0062429302>">One</a> Minute Mentoring (Harper Collins; with Ken Blanchard), <a href="<https://amzn.to/2pqXIAA>">Social Media Success for Every Brand</a> (Harper Collins Leadership), <a href="<https://amzn.to/3nXphLI>">Twitter for Good</a> (Jossey-Bass), and her next untitled book about women startup founders and women startup funders. Claire holds an MBA from Oxford University, where she was a Skoll Foundation Scholar for Social Entrepreneurship, and a B.A. and M.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University. As one of the social media world’s earliest social justice activists, Claire used Twitter to build awareness for AIDS orphans in sub-Saharan Africa, and founded Hope Runs, a nonprofit organization in Kenya. In offbeat superlatives, she is known for being the first and only person to ever have the terrible idea to live-tweet a child’s birth. Claire lives in Argentina with her husband, daughter, and twin boys. Find out more about her at www.ClaireDiazOrtiz.com or via @claire on Twitter.

Fellowship

Claire is mentored by Jenny Lefcourt (GP at Freestyle & Founding Member of All Raise), Harry Stebbings (VC & Host of 20 Minute VC), and Federico Antoni (GP at ALLVP), and is a member of Class 26.