• Tennis champion Serena Williams mentioned she is leaving the game to pursue enterprise capital investing. 
• Serena Ventures invests in a variety of firms, from crypto ventures to a line of chickpea-based meals.
• Take a look at among the firms Williams’ has invested in. 

Legendary tennis star Serena Williams introduced that she might be stepping again from tennis to deal with enterprise capital investing. 

In a Vogue essay explaining her determination, Williams mentioned she was impressed to begin Serena Ventures, her enterprise capital agency, after attending a J.P. Morgan Chase convention a couple of years in the past and studying that lower than 2% of all VC cash went to ladies. 

“I sort of understood then and there that somebody who appears like me wants to begin writing the massive checks. Generally like attracts like,” Williams wrote. 

In response to Williams’ essay in Vogue, 78% of Serena Ventures’ portfolio contains firms began by ladies and other people of colour. 

In March, the agency introduced that it had raised $111 million of out of doors funding to energy early-stage startups.

The agency says it brings Williams’ “champion mindset” to its investing selections. Take a look at among the dozens of firms Serena Ventures has already invested in.