Rebeca Hwang

Rebeca is a venture capital investor who has collected experiences as innovator and inventor, founder and entrepreneur, social entrepreneur, educator and ecosystem builder. Most recently, Rebeca co-founded Kalei Ventures, which invests in early stage technology startups from Latin America. Prior to Kalei, Rebeca was co-founded and Managing Director at Rivet Ventures, which focuses in companies targeting women-led markets where female usage, decision-making, and purchasing are crucial to company growth. Rebeca is also co-founder of the San Francisco-born startup YouNoodle, which helps companies and governments engage with communities of entrepreneurs for open innovation and co-creation of products and services.

Rebeca is globally recognized as an expert on the repercussions of AI in education, family businesses and in parenting the AI generation. She often speaks about the redefinition of diversity, inclusion, productivity and human connections in the AI era, especially as these concern the global south. Prof. Hwang teaches at Stanford University and Thunderbird School of Global Management classes on Technology Entrepreneurship, Startup Investing and Human Creativity.

Rebeca is proud to be a member of the Board of Directors for the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) and ImagineH2O.org.

▪ TED speaker 2018 in Vancouver and NYC
▪ MIT 35 under 35 Award (Argentina and Uruguay in 2012 and Global 2013)
▪ World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, 2012
▪ Winner MIT IDEAS PRIZE and Lemelson Prize, 2002
▪ Twelve awarded US patents (6 929 236; 6 935190; 6 929235; 9,318,014; 9,626,650; 9,564,766; 9,754,496; 10,134,291; 9,508,264; 9,915,438; 9,909,774; 9,711,035) and 9+ pending