Noramay Cadena is an engineer, entrepreneur, investor, and former nonprofit leader. She’s the Cofounder and Managing Director of Make in LA , an early stage hardware accelerator and venture fund in Los Angeles. Since launching in 2015, Make in LA’s venture fund has invested over $1MM in seed stage companies who have have collectively raised over $34MM and created jobs across the United States and in several other countries.

Cadena holds an MBA, a Master’s in Engineering Systems and a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering – all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She’s been a featured speaker in platforms including TEDx and the World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship and been featured in Forbes, Mashable, TechCrunch and Entrepreneur Magazine. She’s also been named one of the top 26 women engineers to watch in 2016 by Business Insider, one of the top 20 Latinos in Tech by CNET in 2014 and received national awards by the Society of Women Engineers and Great Minds in STEM.