Noramay Cadena

Fund: Rising America
Location: Los Angeles

Noramay is a Founding Partner at MiLA Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm in Los Angeles focused on funding tech you can touch. MiLA leverages extensive experience in manufacturing and supply chain to help startup founders tackle production challenges and get to market in a capital-efficient manner. Noramay is also a lead investor in Portfolia's Rising America fund investing in Latinx, Black and LGBTQ founders, and an advisory board member of the Homeboy Industries Ventures and Jobs Fund investing in a portfolio of businesses to support job reentry programs for the formerly incarcerated.

In 2020, she was named one of 50 renowned women in robotics (global), and one of the top 100 influential Latinas in the United States. She has been a featured speaker in platforms including TEDx and the World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship and has been featured in Forbes, Mashable, TechCrunch and Entrepreneur Magazine.

Noramay is a Kauffman Fellow and holds a MBA, a Master’s in Engineering Systems and a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering – all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).