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Dr. Mariela Salas is a venture capital strategist, researcher, and field builder focused on expanding access and outcomes in private capital markets. Her work centers on helping institutional investors better understand and allocate capital to emerging venture managers. She is Managing Partner at Colibrí, which operates through two arms: Colibrí Institute, publishing research at the intersection of capital flows, technology, AI, and policy, and Colibrí Strategies, which works with allocators and fund managers to translate research insights into investment practice. Dr. Salas is also Co-Founder and Partner at ALMA Fund, an investment platform supporting emerging venture managers in the United States. Her research includes large-scale analysis of venture fund representation and performance and has informed discussions at the U.S. Senate and the White House.

Dr. Itzel Moncada is Co-Founder of Colibrí Institute, a nonprofit research organization that publishes open-access research on venture capital fund performance and capital allocation, and Managing Partner of Colibrí Strategies, an advisory firm serving institutional investors and emerging venture managers. Her research examines how venture funds are built and how those choices relate to performance, with a focus on emerging managers and the data used to evaluate them. Before founding Colibrí, she worked in venture capital at Reinventure Capital and in private equity at Cebron Group, after beginning her career in regional economic development and international trade. She holds a Doctor of Business Administration from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio Business School, a master’s degree from the University of San Diego, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.