Maria Salamanca’s Startup Story

Maria Salamanca is a Partner at Unshackled Ventures, where she invests in the ideas of immigrant entrepreneurs. She is also President and founding member of LatinxVC and on the Board of Director at SwingLeft (where she was inaugural COO in 2016). Maria was the first Latina named Forbes 30 Under 30 for Venture Capital; she has also been listed as one of Business Insider’s Under 30 Rising Stars.

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