Reinventure Capital

Julianne Zimmerman focuses on U.S. breakeven companies led by BIPOC or women founders, requires binding impact covenants for equitable hiring and compensation, and scouts underrepresented networks instead of warm‑intro/coastal gatekeeping.

Early U.S. impact investor Edward Dugger III has for 30+ years backed entrepreneurs of color and women; a prior fund invested $250M in 11 firms generating ~$2B and ~7,000 jobs.

Elyse Cherry is an executive with experience across finance, law, community development, and investing in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, with a focus on aligning capital with economic opportunity for disadvantaged communities. As CEO, she led the transformation of BlueHub Capital (formerly Boston Community Capital) into a national community-investment model that has invested over $1.3 billion in affordable housing, schools, health care centers, grocery stores, and other services. She has served on more than a dozen boards, and is a graduate of Wellesley College and Northeastern University School of Law.

Jim Casselberry is CEO and Co-Founder of Known Holdings, LLC, and is listed among Reinventure Capital's partners and advisors. Over a career of more than 30 years as an investment professional, he has developed and managed investment policies and strategies, most recently serving as Chief Investment Officer at 4S Bay Partners, a single-family asset management firm focused on market, impact, and mission-related investing. He previously held leadership roles at Trias Capital Management, Wedgewood Capital Management, and the MacArthur Foundation, and began his career at First Chicago Corporation and Arthur D. Little Valuation. He holds a BS in economics from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Jim Davidson is an early-stage investor and advisor with more than 20 years of internet technology experience. He previously held senior roles at AOL, serving as CTO of DigitalCity and later VP of Web Services and Publishing, and has been CTO of ShareThis.com, President of Examiner.com, and co-founder and CEO of Laborfair.com. He now focuses on early-stage impact investing in companies that use technology to advance social-benefit and sustainability goals, and is a General Partner of the Dev Equity investment fund.

Richard DeVaughn is an executive who has led global technology, operations, and product development across consumer, industrial, and commercial product sectors. Before founding The Arcadia Group International, he was a corporate vice president at Ingersoll Rand overseeing global engineering, innovation, and emerging market product development, and previously held senior roles at Ford Motor Company, Textron, and The Stanley Works. Since 2016 he has been founder and CEO of Jaro Media Services, a media and technology company focused on film, art, books, and music of the African diaspora, and he is listed among Reinventure Capital's partners and advisors.

Shijiro Ochirbat is a Partner at Reinventure Capital focused on impact investment. She began her career providing financial analysis to the Prime Minister of Mongolia on income inequality, later working as an economic analyst for the UNDP and WTO, a senior business analyst at a large Australian corporation, and a consultant to an Indonesian startup supporting smallholder farmers. She holds an MBA from the University of Sydney and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, with coursework in social finance at Harvard Business School.