An $870k Venture Capital Fund raised by Taarini Kaur Dang during high school to invest in startups leveraging technologies like AI for social impact
PRESS AND MEDIA COVERAGE
TAARINI ON BLOOMBERG QUICKTAKE TV

SELECT PRESS ARTICLES AND SPEECHES
Press Release for the Fund:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/brave14-capital-venture-fund-raised-130000601.html?.tsrc=fin-srch
TV Shows and Interviews:
Bloomberg TV interview on the fund (starts at 34min):
TV Show called Good Morning LaLa Land (LA), together with Elon Musk’s sister Tosca Musk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF1mVyVsda8
IndTV USA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQsI6zZhq8c
Select media coverage:
Featured by BBC as one of the teenagers making an impact: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct03dh
Nasdaq: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/faces-entrepreneurship%3A-taarini-dang-2018-05-17-0
Feature Article in Mercury News: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/23/14-year-old-venture-capitalist-planning-to-change-the-world/
Women’s Forum https://www.womens-forum.com/2019/11/18/taarini-kaur-dang-founder-ceo-brave14-capital/
Indica News https://indicanews.com/2021/05/17/taarini-dang-16-shatters-age-barrier-for-entrepreneurs/
Asian Money Guide: https://www.asianmoneyguide.com/taarini-dang
The Board List (by Google ex-President): https://medium.com/@theBoardlist/empowering-women-from-the-classroom-to-the-boardroom-ece08fc0476e
UC Berkeley’s Spnsor.us https://review.sponsr.us/interview-with-taarini-dang-cba0a024e96a
She The People https://www.shethepeople.tv/top-stories/entrepreneur-vc-taarini-dang
Taarini’s blogs on Forbes:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/02/24/ai-transforming-the-world/#b47dbc4f03c6
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/04/25/5-top-ai-trends/#364457096aa0
https://www.forbes.com/sites/taarinikaurdang/2020/07/30/responsible-data-and-ai-in-the-time-of-pandemic-and-crisis/#222576fd74ed
Top Speaking engagements:
TEDx MHS: https://www.ted.com/talks/taarini_kaur_dang_can_venture_capital_narrow_the_tech_gender_gap (Feb 2020)
Women’s March https://youtu.be/Q-s1BHW4hdw (Jan 2019)
Google https://events.withgoogle.com/launchpad-female-founders-summit-3/ (San Francisco, March 2018)
TiECon https://tieinflect.org/speaker/taarini-dang (Santa Clara, CA, May 2018)
Collision (New Orleans, LA, May 2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4_Y_OIkYmk
METal Annual conference (Los Angeles, CA, June 2018)
SEMI Diversity Panel (Milpitas, CA, April 2019)
Startup World Cup Grand Finale (San Francisco, CA, May 2018)
Podcasts:
Cracking the Code https://thecodepodcast.co/episodes/ Other Speakers are CEO of Tata Communciations, CIO of Century Link, Board Member of Verizon, et al
Masters Decoded https://www.aneesmerchant.com/podcast-masters-decoded-season-2/ep6-taarini-kaur-dang