Miriam Rivera, AB ’86, AM ’89, JD/MBA ’95

Miriam Rivera, AB ’86, AM ’89, JD/MBA ’95

Managing Partner, Ulu Ventures

Miriam Rivera is currently creating and raising a new social impact venture fund called Bay Area Growth Fund (BAGF) with fellow Stanford alum Mike Dorsey. Similar to Ulu Ventures, her prior investment firm, BAGF focuses on companies that are capable of delivering venture capital rates of return and making a positive difference in the world. Areas of interest will include job creation, especially among low- to moderate-income workers; more diverse management teams; and socially positive missions, such as increasing access to education, government transparency, and reducing health-care costs.

In 2014, Ms. Rivera became CEO of the Kauffman Fellows Academy, the online education arm of the Kauffman Fellows Program in Venture Capital, and COO and general counsel of the Minerva Project, a highly selective blended online and residential liberal arts education for American and international undergraduates.

Prior to Ulu Ventures, she was VP and deputy general counsel at Google, which she joined in 2001 as the second attorney hired by the company. Under her leadership, she created an award-winning, global legal department of 160 before departing in 2006. Ms. Rivera also served at Google in other capacities, including as assistant secretary to the board, member of its disclosure committee, secretary to the board of its foundation, and legal lead for its Sarbanes-Oxley and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act efforts.

Ms. Rivera also has served on the board of visitors of Stanford Law School, where she chaired the alumnae and public affairs committees and served on its audit and finance committee. She also is an advisor to Stanford’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance for its venture capital directors college.

Ms. Rivera has earned various degrees from Stanford University, including her BA, MA, and JD/MBA. She also is a Kauffman Fellow in Venture Capital.