People
The researchers who do the work, and the board that governs it.
Journalists, conference programmers, and allocators reach our researchers directly. Each entry lists the areas each researcher works in and the questions they can answer on the record.
Research team
Dr. Mariela Salasin
Co-founder
Mariela leads the Institute's qualitative empirical and policy work. Her research at Pepperdine University, where she is a Postdoctoral Fellow, focuses on leadership, identity, and long-term performance in venture capital. She brings more than twenty years across venture capital, finance, infrastructure, and technology, including leadership roles at JPMorgan, Verizon, and Ascendus, and served as Executive Director of SomosVC and Partner at ALMA Fund.
Speaks to
Capital allocation policy and technology policy. Access barriers in institutional fundraising and what the evidence supports. Ecosystem convening and multi-stakeholder coordination.
Contact
mariela@colibristrategies.com
Dr. Itzel Moncadain
Co-founder
Itzel leads the Institute's quantitative empirical work. Her doctoral research at Pepperdine University examines venture capital fund configuration and the structural drivers of performance and risk-return efficiency. She previously worked in fund investing, portfolio analysis, and institutional capital strategy as an investor at Reinventure Capital and a Private Equity Associate at Cebron Group.
Speaks to
Risk-adjusted performance measurement in venture capital. Portfolio configuration and its relationship to returns. What institutional screens select for and against. Reading fund dispersion directionally.
Contact
itzel@colibristrategies.com
Board of Directors
The board that governs the research.
For media
What we will and will not comment on.
We supply exhibits at print resolution on request. We speak to our own findings, to method, and to market structure. We do not comment on individual firms, funds, or people, and we do not extemporize magnitudes that are not in a published paper.
Media contact
hello@colibri.institute
Advance copies
Available to press and analysts before publication, under embargo.
Coverage
Where our research has been written about.
Emerging managers outperform established firms: new research
Coverage of White Paper I, reporting the finding that emerging managers outperformed established managers on DPI, IRR, and TVPI across nearly 2,500 venture capital funds raised between 2000 and 2024.