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Senior Director\nof Strategic Innovations, Village Capital<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heather Matranga is the Senior Director of Strategic Innovations for Village Capital, the largest organisation in the world supporting impact-driven, seed-stage startups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matranga identifies and incubates innovative approaches to catalyse more investment into early-stage, high impact entrepreneurs. She leads the organisation’s work in identifying new strategies to mitigate bias in investment, including a focus on gender lens investing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to joining the team, Matranga worked as an attorney advisor for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where she provided legal support to help individuals and state and local governments recover from disasters and acted as an advisor to the FEMA\u2019s deputy administrator. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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