Lolita Taub

Lolita Taub is a GP at Ganas Ventures where she invests in pre-seed and seed community-driven companies. With 15 years working within the Silicon Valley ecosystem, she has accomplished $70M+ in sales and made 90+ investments as an angel investor, Scout at Lightspeed Venture Partners, and VC at Backstage Capital and The Community Fund. Taub is also a Co-Founder of proprietary matching tools Startup-Investor Matching Tool, the GP-LP Matching Tool, and the LaaS community which brings along a community of over 4K+ founders, funders, and ecosystem friends. Forbes and Inc Magazine have featured her as a woman promoting investment in underestimated founders and funders.

Taub’s roots are in South Central Los Angeles to Mexican parents who immigrated to the United States with no money and no family to go to for support. Her father found jobs as a migrant farmworker, in a door manufacturing factory, and as a truck driver. Her mother babysat and cleaned houses. “We grew up poor,” Taub says. “People used to tell me that I’d be a high school dropout and go on welfare.” At age 34, she had a bachelor’s degree, an MBA, and 13 years of experience working in the tech industry—including high-profile positions at venture funds built on investing in women, people of color, and the LBGTQ+ community.

Taub is a woman of color with extensive experience in tech, as an investor, micro-influencer, an international keynote speaker, and 2-time TEDx speaker, who has been recognized for her work in venture capital and tech on Forbes, Inc, The Huffington Post, and Entrepreneur, among other publications. Prior to her venture career, she spent nearly a decade in B2B tech, consulting and selling solutions to enterprises cross-industry at IBM, Cisco Systems, Silicon Valley and NYC startups. She has a BA from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the IE Business School. Most importantly, she is a dog mom to the cutest Dachshund mix, Choco.