Claire Diaz-ortiz
Investor at Kleiner Perkins
Argentina
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2024 - Current
Claire is a partner at 100 Coaches Agency, a firm designed to amplify the collective impact of the world’s most iconic leadership thinkers and executive coaches. In partnership with Marshall Goldsmith, the world's most recognized executive coach, the firm has built an exclusive curated network of executive coaches serving Fortune 500 companies and market-leading organizations.
100 Coaches offers services, events, online courses and other opportunities to inspire, develop, and energize leaders for the future.
Author
2009
Claire is the bestselling author of 9 books on leadership and marketing that have been translated into 11 languages, including One Minute Mentoring (Harper Collins 2017), co-authored with her mentor and legendary management guru, Ken Blanchard. Her most recent book was Social Media Success for Every Brand, also by Harper Collins.
HarperCollins is an English language publisher that offers a range of Bibles, atlases, dictionaries, and reissued classics.
Venture Capital Scout
2022 - 2024
As a scout, Claire wrote checks into fintech, consumer, marketplace, and web3 companies.
Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies.
Keynote Speaker
2011 - 2023
Claire has delivered keynote speeches, commencement speeches, and workshops on six continents (all her fingers remain crossed for McMurdo Station!).
Kauffman Fellow - Class 26
2021 - 2023
Kauffman Fellows is the premier leadership organization in innovation & capital formation, with graduates leading venture capital, government, corporate, university, and startup innovation efforts globally. More than 850 Fellows now lead more than 250 venture capital firms representing funds that invest billions into startups in more than 58 countries around the world.
Co-investment VC firm supporting the mission of the Kauffman Fellows
Advisor
2021 - 2023
Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm with offices in 25 major startup cities across 6 continents and more than $1B in AUM. As a marketing advisor, Claire supported growth efforts.
Partner
2020 - 2021
Magma Partners is a seed stage venture capital fund in Latin America. As an investing partner, Claire started Brava, Magma's initiative to invest in female founders. As the only investing partner in LatAm from Silicon Valley, Claire loved nothing more twisting the arm of an international VC fund to enter LatAm for the first time as a co-investor in one of her awesome portfolio companies.
Magma Partners is an early-stage investment firm that supports Latin American entrepreneurs.
Corporate Social Innovation
2009 - 2014
Claire was an early employee at Twitter, where she was first hired to lead corporate social innovation. In Claire's time at Twitter, she was called everything from “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” (Wired) and “Twitter’s Pontiff Recruitment Chief” (The Washington Post) to a “Force for Good” (Forbes) and one of the “Ten Most Generous in Social Media” (Fast Company). In her social innovation work, she envisioned, built, and directed all Twitter’s social good initiatives, including the Twitter for Nonprofits and Twitter Ads for Good programs. On the side of growth marketing, she led influencer marketing strategies in several key verticals to on-boarded high-profile individuals to the platform, including the Pope and Warren Buffet.
X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.
Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.
Co-Founder
2006 - 2008
Claire co-founded Hope Runs, a non-profit organization based in Kenya that used running to empower AIDS orphans with the tools of personal health, social entrepreneurship, and education. Featured in Runner's World Magazine and other publications, Hope Runs was in operation from 2006 - 2019. One of Claire's books, also entitled Hope Runs, tells the story of the organization.