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Cathy Dizon

Community Builder | Founder | Investor | Chairman | Vice Chair | Board Governor | Board Trustee | Board Director | NPC Athlete

San Antonio, Texas

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $500,000.00

Work Experience

2020

  • Chair Of The Board Of Directors

    2022

    Building San Antonio one startup at a time.

  • Director, Board Of Directors

    2020 - 2022

    Geekdom is a new kind of collaborative workspace where Entrepreneurs, Technologists, Developers, Makers, and Creatives help each other build businesses & other cool things together. Our mission is to provide an inspiring environment for bright minds to explore ideas in entrepreneurship, technology, leadership, and creativity and where they can develop talents and connect to a community of like-minded people.

  • Vice Chair, Board of Trustees

    2024

  • Member, Board of Trustees

    2023 - 2024

    Mind Science Foundation is a non-profit foundation based out of 117 W El Prado Dr, San Antonio, Texas, United States and focused on educating the public on consciousness and neuroscience.

  • Founder & CEO

    2023

  • Partner and Co-Founder

    2017

    Active Capital is a venture firm focused on leading seed rounds for B2B SaaS companies. We are founder led capital for founder led companies.

  • Director, Board Of Directors

    2019

    Girls Inc. of San Antonio works to inspire all girls to be strong, smart. and bold. The organization equips girls to navigate gender, economic, and social barriers to grow up healthy, educated, and independent. Girls build confidence and embrace positive decision-making to take charge of their health and well-being, and to achieve academic, personal, and career goals.

  • Global Women in VC - Member

    2020

    Global Women in VC is the largest community of women investors, enabling connections, collaboration & empowerment on a global scale. The community is currently comprised of 2,500+ women investors from 50+ countries.

  • Founding Member

    2023 - 2024

    Actively supporting the Texas Venture Community.

2017 - 2024

  • Member

    2017 - 2024

  • CEO & Executive Director

    2018 - 2019

    Represent and lead the San Antonio Angel Investing Community. Work with and coach local entrepreneurs to get them ready to meet with Investors. Hold pitch events and social events designed to connect local investors with founders of thriving local and Texas-based startups. Play an active role in the community to build a culture where investing time, money and resources into our startup ecosystem will help our startups reach their potential. - Trinity's Stumberg Competition Judge - Fall 2018 - Capital Factory's Women in Tech Judge - Fall 2018 - Geekdom's Community Fund Judge - 2018 - CivTech SA Non-City Official Committee Member 2018-2019 - Geekdom's Pre-Accelerator Program - Co-Director Spring 2019 - VCIC Central Regional Finals Judge - Spring 2019 - UTSA' CITE Competition Judge - Spring 2019

2020 - 2022

  • Director, Board Of Directors

    2021 - 2022

    VentureLab is a non-profit organization that is helping create the next generation of innovators and changemakers.

  • Member Of The Board Of Advisors

    2020 - 2021

    VentureLab is a non-profit organization that is helping create the next generation of innovators and changemakers.

2020 - 2022

  • Beam Angel Network - Founding Committee Member

    2020 - 2022

    The Beam Angel Network invests in high potential and exceptionally led companies that happen to be founded by women. Beam's mission is to provide equitable access to capital for women-founded companies and to create generational wealth for these founders and the investors that support them. Through quantitative and qualitative research, Beam has confirmed that accessing early stage capital is the biggest barrier to growth for women founders. We want to change this.