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86th percentile
Former Senior Advisor to President Obama now CEO of the Obama Foundation
Credibility
Portfolio Scale · 85th percentile
- Active GP / fund manager: Valerie Jarrett is a named related person (fund manager) on Ariel International DM/EM LLC, a pooled investment fund with a fund size of $632.3M, per SEC Form D filing.
- Partner / Principal at Ariel Investments, a recognized investment firm with a public deal record.
- Publicly identified as an angel investor, having personally invested in Ellevest's $33M funding round.
- Approximately 4 years of investing experience, based on her documented investment activity from around 2021 onward.
- Made at least one active investment in Ellevest, a digital investment platform.
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Founder score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Wikipedia entity exists for Valerie Jarrett, confirming her public notability.
Investor score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Active GP / fund manager: Valerie Jarrett is a named related person (fund manager) on Ariel International DM/EM LLC, a pooled investment fund with a fund size of $632.3M, per SEC Form D filing.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Partner / Principal at Ariel Investments, a recognized investment firm with a public deal record.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Publicly identified as an angel investor, having personally invested in Ellevest's $33M funding round.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Made at least one active investment in Ellevest, a digital investment platform.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Portfolio company Ellevest was acquired (acquisition value undisclosed).
- 45%Probability of being accurate (45%)Approximately 4 years of investing experience, based on her documented investment activity from around 2021 onward.
What you likely need
You'd get the most value from Festival events that help you formalize your investor identity alongside other high-profile civic and institutional leaders who are also building angel portfolios. Dinners and roundtables that bridge your Ariel, Obama Foundation, and corporate board networks with early-stage mission-aligned founders will accelerate your deal flow without requiring you to start from scratch. You'd also benefit from intimate gatherings with impact-focused GPs and LPs who can help you think through whether to formalize your investing through a fund relationship or fellowship structure.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- positioningA dinner with Ariel Investments GPs and Obama Foundation network leaders to pressure-test and articulate a public angel investment thesis around women-led, civic-tech, and impact-focused companies
- fundraisingA roundtable with GPs from Rethink Impact, Pivotal Ventures, and Kapor Capital for LPs and prospective LPs exploring co-investment rights and diversified capital deployment into diversity-focused funds
- introsA structured dinner with fellow board members from Sweetgreen, Walgreens, and Ralph Lauren to map supplier and partner ecosystems into a warm-intro deal-sourcing pipeline for early-stage founders
- introsA happy hour with Ellevest portfolio founders and other women-led fintech and consumer founders for Valerie to surface her next 3–5 angel investments in the women-led company space
- tacticalA tactical working session with Obama Foundation staff and civic-tech accelerator founders (e.g., Camelback Ventures, New Profit) to design the structure of a formal Obama Foundation entrepreneurship or founder fellowship program
- positioningA dinner with other institutional leaders turned active angels (e.g., former cabinet members, Fortune 500 board members) who have successfully repositioned their public profiles to attract inbound founder deal flow
- wellbeingA small wellbeing dinner in mid-2026 for high-profile civic leaders navigating major institutional milestones — like the Obama Presidential Center opening — to reflect on how to keep investing and advisory work energizing rather than obligatory