In recent years, Silicon Valley’s venture capital dominance has been challenged by deep-pocketed outsiders, especially SoftBank, an early investor in such titans as Alibaba and TikTok owner ByteDance. Yet, Softbank as an organization displays little more diversity than the VC industry as a whole. In November 2021, Lydia Jett helped to change that, becoming the first woman to become a managing partner at the SoftBank Vision Fund. A veteran of JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, Jett says: “a passion project for me is empowering women in technology and investing.”
