ABOUT NATHALIE
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Nathalie Molina Niño loves builders.
She helps entrepreneurs, fund managers, and institutions access the capital, infrastructure, and partnerships they need to grow. Across investing, company-building, advisory work, writing, and speaking, her focus has stayed the same: helping people build things that last.
She is a Co-Founder and President at Known Holdings and co-founder of Built, its Fund-as-a-Service partnership between Known and Mission Driven Finance. At Built she helps fund managers and innovators scale and she makes personal investments through her family office, O³. Her recent TEDx talk explores what separates builders from flippers, and why the difference matters more now than ever.
She is the author of LEAPFROG: The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs (Penguin Random House), named by BookAuthority one of the Best CEO Books of All Time. Her writing continues in Leap Again: No More Someday.
Nathalie launched her first tech startup at 20. At Lionbridge (NASDAQ: LIOX), she led the growth of a multinational business across more than 30 countries to nearly $100 million in revenue, including its strategic partnership with Microsoft. In 2012, she co-founded and taught at Entrepreneurship@Athena at Barnard College, Columbia University. She later served as interim Chief Revenue Officer at PowerToFly, helping grow what became one of the fastest-growing online hiring platforms for women in tech. Then in 2016, she founded and led BRAVA Investments, which invested in high-growth businesses that improve the economic lives of women. In 2019 Nathalie co-founded the trade organization for Builder Capital, an alternative asset class to venture capital.
She has advised multinationals including Disney, Microsoft, MTV, The Discovery Channel, and Mattel, as well as early-stage companies including Cranium, Seed & Spark, and TomboyX. As a champion of women, communities of color, and the planet, she has also advised public- and private-sector organizations including Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE), Vote Run Lead, WE NYC (City of New York), Goldman Sachs’ Launch with GS, WOCstar Fund, the American Medical Association’s Center for Health Equity, Accion Opportunity Fund, and Connectivity Ventures, where she served as a Venture Partner. As part of her efforts to make reproductive healthcare more accessible and affordable, she served on the board of the National Institute for Reproductive Health and advised the American Medical Association’s Center for Health Equity. In the private sector, she has also served on the boards of Hanky Panky (sold in 2025) and Cadence OTC (representing as lead investor).
Nathalie has been named one of People en Español’s most powerful Latinas and received Schneps Media’s inaugural Women of Wall Street Award. In Never Eat Alone, Keith Ferrazzi described her as a super-connector, the “fuel core of a network that makes it easy for her to tap the resources to get stuff done, and done quickly.” Find her in The 4-Hour Workweek, TIME, Forbes, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, MSNBC, CNBC, and beyond.
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