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Evaluating High-Growth Startups & Market Trends
Learn how venture capital firms evaluate early-stage startups, identify emerging tech trends, and how young girls can look for high-growth potential businesses in their everyday life.
The Power of Diverse Portfolios & Asset Allocation
Demystifying exchange-traded funds (ETFs), capital preservation, risk profiles, and simple diversification guidelines that make small early savings grow exponentially.
How Machine Learning is Reshaping Wall Street Analytics
An introductory guide on how modern FinTech platforms process stock data in real time, and how tech-savvy students can start building simple prediction scripts.
Talk by Natalia Garcia
Natalia Garcia Lopez spent nearly two decades in corporate finance in Argentina and the U.S. - including roles at Lapa S.A. and Banco Post - before moving into asset management and controllership work at Compass Group Holdings in New York. She discovered her love of numbers as a kid, and followed her brother and a childhood best friend into the field despite coming from a family of doctors and engineers.
Early in her career she was often the only woman in the room - from being mistaken for support staff to having no maternity leave policy after her first child. She pushed through because she loved the work, and later helped grow female representation at her firm from almost no women in investment roles to roughly 40%, including portfolio managers - arguing that diverse teams bring perspectives that would otherwise get missed.
Her advice to young women considering finance: passion, resilience, and confidence matter more than your major. Genuine relationships - not transactional networking - opened doors throughout her career, and success comes from being authentically yourself rather than performing what you think finance "should" look like. On diversity, she favors equal-opportunity access over quotas, believing hiring should be blind to gender so talent decides the outcome.
She closed by reviewing Her Funds' own stock-picking simulation with the group, cautioning that in volatile markets, patience usually beats reactive trading.