Jeri Harman is the Founder & Chairman of Avante Capital Partners, a women and minority-owned private credit and structured equity fund based in LA and founded in 2009.
Topics:
- Why she took the plunge into entrepreneurship (in 2009) and what it took to get the business off the ground
- Failure is not an option
- The importance of storytelling in fundraising
- Balancing the desire to lean into her identity as a women-owned fund vs just being known as an outstanding investor
- Creating an ecosystem and how it has helped source 60% of their deals
- The evolution of women in finance, PEWIN, and Kelly Williams
- Her #1 advice for women in finance
