Priyanka Chopra turns tech investor, details insideAuthor : AZIndia News Desk
Oct 4 (AZINS) It is no revelation that Priyanka Chopra dons several hats, including that of an actress and a singer, and now the desi girl of Bollywood has turned an investor.
Yes, that is right!
Priyanka is ecstatic to embark on a new 'chapter' as an investor in tech start-up Holberton School, a coding education company, as well as in dating and social media app Bumble.
She tweeted about the same saying, "A new chapter for me! I am so excited to partner with Bumble and Holberton School as an investor. I'm honoured to join two companies that strive to expand gender diversity in the tech space, and make a social impact for the greater good... let's do this," Priyanka tweeted on Thursday.
This is Priyanka's first project as a start-up investor, and so she recently toured San Francisco, the home of her new portfolio company- school which uses projects and group learning instead of more traditional courses, to teach software development, according to The New York Times.
The actress' investment in Holberton is part of an $8.2 million round of funding for Holberton that closed in April. She will join the company's board of advisers, and will emphasise support for Holberton's mission to educate people from underprivileged backgrounds.
Her investments will skew heavily toward companies with an element of social impact, and companies founded by women.
"I don't want to just be one of those people who's like, 'Yeah, I want to be on the tech bandwagon- how are they making so much money?' It's not about that," said Priyanka, who is engaged to American singer Nick Jonas, said in a statement.
"Geeks are taking over the world. If they haven't already," said the The Sky Is Pink actress, who has joined the bandwagon of celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, Leonardo DiCaprio, who have invested in tech start-ups too.
Even though Priyanka Chopra yet does not know how many deals she would do or how much money she would invest, plans on building a portfolio.
Priyanks has also invested in Bumble, a dating and social media app founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd.
She plans to help promote Bumble's launch in India in the coming months, reported The New York Times.
Priyanka Chopra was introduced to tech investing by her manager Anjula Acharia, a founder and angel investor who spent time as an entrepreneur-in-residence and partner at Trinity Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. The two have worked together since 2010.