Katera Mujadidi is a Partner at ACME, where she leads investor relations and fundraising. She brings more than a decade of experience in venture capital, having held senior roles at leading Bay Area firms including Vivo Capital, Northgate Capital, and Pantera Capital. Over the course of her career, she has built and scaled global investor relations departments, led high-performing teams, and cultivated lasting partnerships with investors worldwide.
Her expertise spans across fundraising, strategy, and investor relations, providing her with deep experience in building and expanding relationships across the venture capital ecosystem.
Katera earned her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and is pursing her M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. She is based in Miami, and frequently travels to San Francisco.
For Katera, travel has never been a matter of getting from point A to point B. It is rhythm, a pulse she has carried for decades. Growing up in a house full of brothers, she learned early to hold her ground and keep moving, armed with equal parts curiosity and grit.
Today, the ritual takes a more recognizable form: a wide-brimmed hat angled against the sun (a Kat in the hat, if you will), a coffee clutched like a lifeline, and a carry-on that has logged more miles than most planes. Airports, taxis, train stations, tuk-tuks, motorcycles, sidewalks, they blur into one continuous thread, stitched together by her steady cadence of motion. For Katera, travel is not an escape. It is an existence. And in the liminal space between departure and arrival, she feels most at home.
You might spot her boarding a flight at an ungodly hour, often to meet with investors, sometimes to share insights on a Wharton case study. Her travels are never without purpose.
Some journeys naturally carry more weight. She has helped refugees find safety and built schools in far-flung corners of the world. While destinations shift and missions evolve, her compass stays true: travel with gratitude, travel light, and keep an open heart.
One rule, however, is sacred. Never check a bag. Never. It is not just practical; it is philosophy. Less stuff means more freedom. The lighter the load, the sharper the focus, the greater the capacity to embrace the urgent, the unforeseen, the liberating.
The hat, though, is non-negotiable. More than an accessory, it is a uniform. A legacy. A reminder of the strength and spirit she carries with her. Standing still has never been an option. She does not collect trinkets, though wood carvings remain a soft spot. She collects stories. And like the finest of them, hers unfold with rhythm, heart, with an undercurrent of courage.
