Kathy Matsui

[10] Matsui's parents were Japanese Christians who emigrated from Nara Prefecture in Japan to the United States[11] in the early 1960s.

[12] Matsui joined the Japan Strategy team of Barclays de Zoete Wedd Securities in spring 1990, just after the Japanese bubble economy peaked.

[13] Since her publication on womenomics, Japan’s female labor force participation rate has risen to record levels that surpass both the US and Europe.

[13] Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe incorporated Matsui's womenomics research into his Abenomics economic reforms announced in 2012.

She lobbies for flexible labor contracts, tax reforms, looser immigration laws, and parliamentary gender quotas.

In 2014 Matsui was named "50 Most Influential" in Bloomberg Markets magazine for her implementation of "womenomics" into the field of investment banking and straight into her workplace at Goldman Sachs.

Matsui aims to not only diversify the world of venture capital, but also to meet levels of diversity at the first stage of a startups' business cycle.