Founder and CEO, VC Include | Aspen Institute Finance Leaders Fellow (FLF) | Bloomberg New Voices Fellow
Bahiyah Yasmeen Robinson
Driven by a passion for generating alpha and impact in alternatives, launched VC Include (VCI) in 2018 and the Include Ventures Fund of Funds in 2022. The INCLUDE platform has sourced, supported and scaled over 100 next-gen PE + VC firms. These firms have raised north of $2B, invested in over 400 companies and created over 13,000 jobs in the last four years. Additionally, the Include Ventures FoF has invested in 15 managers through its first Fund of Funds product, selected from a pipeline of over 800 Venture, Growth and Buyout firms to date. Bahiyah is the go-to advisor for new emerging managers entering the market, and for allocators looking to expand or deepen their pipeline of emerging private market funds that demonstrate a strong thesis in an impact-related sector.
Bahiyah Yasmeen Robinson
Founder and CEO, VC Include
Driven by a passion for generating alpha and impact in alternatives, launched VC Include (VCI) in 2018 and the Include Ventures Fund of Funds in 2022.
The INCLUDE platform has sourced, supported and scaled over 100 next-gen PE + VC firms. These firms have raised north of $2B, invested in over 400 companies and created over 13,000 jobs in the last four years. Additionally, the Include Ventures FoF has invested in 15 managers through its first Fund of Funds product, selected from a pipeline of over 800 Venture, Growth and Buyout firms to date.
Bahiyah is the go-to advisor for new emerging managers entering the market, and for allocators looking to expand or deepen their pipeline of emerging private market funds that demonstrate a strong thesis in an impact-related sector.
She is an Aspen Institute Finance Leaders Fellow (FLF), a member of the Ceres President's Council, and a Bloomberg New Voices Fellow. Her work has been featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Responsible Investor Magazine, Institutional Investor Magazine, Emerging Manager Monthly, Crunchbase, Techcrunch, Impact Alpha, Entrepreneur Magazine, Bloomberg, Yahoo News, Cheddar, CNN, Worth Magazine and Forbes. She has spoken at The Milken Global Conference, The Financial Times Money Summit, multiple Bloomberg Summits, LG Nova Forum, SOCAP, Toniic, CAIA, Apex, The SEC and CAIA, to name a few.
