Freada Kapor Klein, Ph.D. is an entrepreneur and investor focused on gap-closing startups and strategies. As a Founding Partner at Kapor Capital, and through Kapor Center Investments, Dr. Kapor’s direct investing is in seed-stage tech startups that create positive social impact by closing gaps of access, opportunity, or outcome for low-income communities and communities of color. Dr. Kapor is also the founder of SMASH.org, now in its 24th year, which provides rigorous STEM education and access to social capital for low-income high school students of color across the country.  

In 1976, she co-founded the Alliance Against Sexual Coercion, the first organization in the U.S. to address sexual harassment. Dr. Kapor is a member of the National Board of Directors of the NAACP, the U.C. Berkeley Chancellor’s Board of Visitors, and serves on the board of Kai XR, and the advisory boards of Twilio.org and Trident.