Uploaded May 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Founding Stories - PURPOSE: Founding for Impact at the
2018 Tom Tom Founders Festival

Friday April 13th, 2018 | The Paramount Theater

Diresta is part of the founding team of a logistics tech startup and an active VC, focused on hardware, IoT, and logistics. In her free time, she works towards creating a more effective intersection of tech and politics, recently co-founding Center for Humane Technology with an unprecedented alliance of tech insiders and CEOs, as well as advising Congress on peer-to-peer disinformation and fighting anti-vaccination propaganda.

Speaker: Renee Diresta , Head of Policy, Data for Democracy

Sponsors: UVA McIntire School of Commerce Galant Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

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