Asya Bradley

Your Story:

Asya Bradley is a founder, angel investor, LP, advisor and board director in tech startups and emerging fund managers.

Previously founder of Kinly (fka: First Boulevard): The Unapologetically Black, Digitally Native, NeoBank Building Generational Wealth for Black America.

With over 20 years of experience in tech (founding team at Synapse, co-founder, Kinly, Cisco alum) and a track record of supporting underestimated founders, Bradley is an experienced investor, operator, and fintech entrepreneur.

Bradley is a champion of diversity and gender balance in the workplace and works tirelessly to promote women, minorities, LGBTQ+ and other underrepresented communities. She is also an angel investor, advisor and board member of numerous startups. She is a world traveler, having lived and worked throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and now North America. Asya is also certified at the highest attainable level by the Yoga Alliance in Ashtanga Yoga and speaks multiple languages fluently including, amongst others, Dutch, Punjabi and Arabic."

Your Impact:

I’ve always ensured representation of LGBTQIA+ members in all levels of all organizations that I’ve been part of or founded. I’ve also actively invested in founders from our community including in Daylight which would have been the first LGBTQ+ founded neobank for our community. In the last company that I founded - 1/3 of our leadership team was LGBTQ+ and 1/5 of our entire team was LGBTQ+. Representation at all levels is extremely important to me.

Your Advice:

Find your people. Find your community. Reach out both for support and to support. Be active and open about your intention to support the community - no need to be shy about it. Be proud.