About
I’m Marcia X. Chong Rosado. I co-create entrepreneurship programs, networks, communities that meet entrepreneurs across their lived experiences. I speak and engage audiences on my lived experiences and on what I’m seeing in our economy.
The who and where I’m from shapes how I’ve shown up and will continue to co-create across professional, personal, and all types of spaces in between.
World’s first social impact bonds. 16 entrepreneurship programs. 1500+ entrepreneurs and investors. 125 companies funded. $500M+ generated in revenue. $400M+ channeled to entrepreneurs. High NPS scores. A global network of investors.
I’m only getting started.
I’m Marcia or you can call me MC. Over 14 years, I've built at the intersection of entrepreneurship, impact investing, venture capital, and community—before impact investing was a talked-about career field, and when I was actively discouraged from pursuing it. I've moved from co-creating social impact bonds at county and state levels, to stewarding venture capital ecosystems across the US and Latin America, to co-founding VCFamilia, to co-architecting over 16 entrepreneurship programs serving entrepreneurs and investors reflecting our communities of today and tomorrow. I did it for Village Capital. For Pharrell Williams’ nonprofit. For the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator. And more. I've brought my lived experiences, the who and where I'm from to the tables.
I continue to learn and move towards reshaping resourcing and capital—reimagining what it is, why it moves, how it flows, and who gets to move it. It requires building new tables and working with those strategically adding chairs to existing tables. Moving in the complexity of this and that.
Who I Am, Who I’m From, Where I'm From
I was born in the warm and lively coast of Guayaquil, Ecuador, with lived experiences mainly in Ecuador and the United States—especially Greater Boston, Washington DC, and in small doses in Europe, particularly Paris and Barcelona.
I'm of Indigenous, Chinese, and Spanish ancestors. I'm an immigrant, child of immigrants, and great-granddaughter of an immigrant. Migration waves and leaving lands and communities in my family have happened during periods of economic crisis and social instability.
The who and where I'm from absolutely shapes how I've shown up and will continue to flow across professional, personal, and all types of spaces in between.
It's why I understand moving with complexity. Why I can hold multiple truths at once. Why I innovate on capital and resourcing, and why I'm uniquely positioned to co-create what comes next.
Why This Work Chose Me
My family's migration story includes resilience and innovation through economic crisis and instability. And then I saw resilience and innovation again and again from entrepreneurs, ecosystem builders, and investors. As a young child to now, I began observing:
What it means when resources and capital do not flow to one’s communities at all, or flows at decreased levels, or flows with additional barriers
How barriers in multiple systems can impact people and the communities around them
Who is missing from decision-making consent and power as entrepreneurs, investors, limited partners
Why representation on teams without resources and practices on intersectionality and trauma-informed approaches will continue to perpetuate power-inbalances
And more
I chose to be an impact program builder, investor, and to share my story because I knew it was important. So I went to Third Sector Capital Partners and helped launch the first Social Impact Bonds in the US. I went to Village Capital and built fintech programs for founders and mentors the traditional VC world at times overlooked. I co-founded VCFamilia during the coronavirus pandemic because Latines in VCs needed an activated network. I worked with Black Ambition because Black and Latine founders deserved resourcing infrastructure and capital.
I did none of this alone. I co-created with colleagues and peers across organizations. I did this with the privilege of 20+ “mentors” believing in me.
What I'm Building Toward
I want to move towards more restorative, regenerative, abundant entrepreneurial ecosystems that meet entrepreneurs, the teams, and the communities entrepreneurs serve across lived experiences — this will be lifelong work.
I spent 150+ hours in 2025 learning about rematriating economies thanks to the Rematriating Economies Apprenticeship. In 2026, I'm 80+ hours into Trauma of Money Institute's certification because I know that how we relate to money as an individual, as teams, and as communities shapes how we resource and co-create in entrepreneurial ecosystems. I will keep immersing myself in learning experiences.
Feel free to explore these pages and reach out if we’re aligned in values, practices, and mission.
My Values
Belonging
I seek to co-create spaces where entrepreneurs and ecosystem builders feel safe, supported, and acknowledged in their lived experiences shaped by both larger systems and individual agency.
I hold multiple lived experiences that have shaped my desire for people to feel like they belong in entrepreneurship, venture capital, and impact investing spaces.
Authenticity
I believe in standing in what feels honest, even when it looks messy, imperfect, or uncomfortable.
My multiple identities and lived experiences shape how I show up in entrepreneurship, venture capital, and impact investing. I bring all of that forward, knowing that wholeness—not perfection— is what creates real resonance and change.
Restorative and Regenerative Interdependence
Some organizations and institutions have caused harm to the communities, environments, and the lands I have been on—intentionally and unintentionally, and some have acknowledged their impact while others have not.
There are opportunities to collaborate, reallocate resources (mentorship, funding, etc.), and move towards partnerships that restore relationships between people and the land.
Moving With Complexity & Tension
I hold a commitment to navigating tensions with honesty, to deprogramming harmful patterns in myself and in our collective work, and to co-creating cultures where rest, interdependence/support, imperfection, and non-labor realms of life are more prioritized.
I hold an evolving, nuanced belief system: we're capable of creating restorative, regenerative, interdependent, abundant economies. AND I'm living and working within capitalistic systems that often reinforce scarcity, competition, perfectionism, and individualism—values that conflict with how I want to move in the world. I don't have clean answers to these tensions. What do I mean by tensions? Here are a couple examples:
Tension: As I mature, I’m aligning less and less with several values and conditions of capitalism, yet I also work within capitalistic spaces that I seek to change, like venture capital, entrepreneurship, and impact investing. I believe there are opportunities to deprogram certain practices in the way we work, build relationships, and provide capital to be more intersectional and trauma-informed. And there are opportunities to do that within entrepreneurial ecosystem builder organizations, venture capital firms, impact investing and philanthropy/foundation teams, and intermediaries.
Tension: As I mature, I want to move away from embodying certain practices common in venture capital, entrepreneurship, and impact investing like "grinding at all costs," putting overwork as a "badge of honor," and reinforcing perfectionism on myself and on the people I work with. At times, I have done these practices in past work cultures. Deprogramming will be a lifelong practice for me. I believe that there are opportunities to co-regulate our nervous systems not just as individuals, but also as teams and in groups. And there are opportunities to co-create cultures that allow us to prioritize non-labor realms of our lives.