#12: Equity, portfolio careers, quotas for VCs - Naïma Camara

Venturing Women

Equity and company shares are usually far off the radar of the general public. Equity seems to be a term from the glamorous world of the startup founders and investment managers in ties and Bentley cars.

Yet, things are changing.

I sat down with Naïma Camara, CEO & Founder of Ownership, to discuss the evolving role of equity.

Dynamic equity not only allows founders to attract talent even when capital is scarce. It can also help employees and contributors to build a portfolio of assets. Moreover, dynamic equity may also bring remarkable and much needed change to the whole entrepreneurial landscape. How? Keep on listening.

Some of the topics we explore:

• How you, I and anyone else can earn shares in a startup. Portfolio careers.
• Part-time startup founders: science fiction or reality?
• Equity: much more than just an incentive for employees, much more than just access to talent for underrepresented founders.
• Hiring teams in early stages of company building.
• Quotas as a tool to drive more capital to fund BIPOC founders.

About Naïma Camara:

Naïma is the CEO & Founder of Ownership. Ownership is an app to allow founders to pay for talent using equity. Naïma has a master’s degree in US History & Politics from University College London. She believes her grounding in history and knowledge of the systems of power that govern society allows her to thrive within teams working towards a social good to deploy tech that can achieve realistic positive change. Naïma is based in London.

About Darya Kamkalova:

Darya wears many hats: she is podcaster, a data industry professional, a startup mentor, a co-founder of Manifest Taproom (a craft beer bar in Berlin), and a speaker.

Her experience in the data industry spans 10 years, five continents and such domains as data monetisation & acquisition, data product development, strategic partnerships as well as data marketplace business operations.

Darya has been driving or supporting various projects empowering women since 2013. She is based in Berlin.