LA Venture Podcast

EPISODE 205

Shrina Kurani — IBank

May 29, 2024

Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A

Shrina Kurani is an investor actively writing checks to help catalyze emerging managers as part of IBank’s Venture Capital Access Program.  Shrina and the team at IBank are happy to be a part of a fund's first close and they participate with meaningful capital ($5M-$10M). It is easy to apply to the IBank program and Shrina says that she hopes to be "bombarded" with decks from amazing fund managers.

Full transcript

I'm so happy to be chatting today with Shrina is a Ventures Specialist for iBank, running the state of California venture program. She has a background in climate tech at Snow Cap.
She has been supporting underrepresented founders. She recently ran for Congress two years ago. Prior to that, she was a Vice President at crowdfunding platform Republic. Truly so much to talk about today.
Perfect.
Great. I had to practice the intro. Because Shrina, you have a lot going on. And iBank really is extremely unique. So I thought we could start there.