MEMBER
Taarini Kaur Dang

MEMBER TYPE
Think Tank

FOCUS
Venture Capital, Writing, Speaking, and Diversity Empowerment

WORK
Founder & Managing Partner of Brave14 Capita

SUMMARY
Taarini is the youngest person to win the Young American-Indian Award for her work in Entrepreneurship in 2018. At the age of 13, she wrote a book, “The Young Aspiring Entrepreneur” which has a foreword from Intel Capital President Wendell Brooks and quotes from Stanford Professor Chuck Eesley, Intel’s Chief Diversity Officer Barbara Whye, Oracle ex-President Ray Lane, and author Linda Swindling. She has been an invited speaker at top conferences, like Google Launchpad Female Founders Summit, Collision Conference, TiECon, Women’s March, ATEA, AI ShowBiz Summit, etc. She has been the only speaker under the age of 18 at these conferences.

Taarini is a high schooler, Venture Capitalist, Forbes Writer, TEDx Speaker, and Diversity Empowerment Champion. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of a Venture Capital firm called Brave14 Capital for which she has raised $870k in funding from top Venture Capitalists and Institutional Investors in the US.

Taarini conducted research on Entrepreneurship definitions, contradictions, and 8-variable multicollinearity models via variance inflation factors. She also researched the impact of digital technologies on the Liability of Foreignness for Entrepreneurship in a forced immigration context. She did a case study by designing a Stanford online course to teach entrepreneurship to Ethiopian Refugees. She published these findings as a paper in IEEE (top peer-reviewed proceedings) and presented them at the conference.

Taarini has created The High School Girl Chat Show to bring entrepreneurship and leadership lessons from stellar CEOs and VCs - she interviewed John Chambers (Cisco ex-CEO), Tim Draper (top VC), Vinod Kumar (CEO of Vodafone Business and Tata Communications ex-CEO), Dheeraj Pandey (Nutanix ex-CEO), Kamran Ziaee (Sr VP, Verizon), Quinn Li (Head of Qualcomm Ventures) and several executives from SAP, TechStars, etc.

Taarini is the co-founder of a diversity empowerment Instagram account called @ClassyWomenn, which has ramped to 1.1 million followers across 10 countries.

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