Tiana Tukes

Tiana Tukes is an American entrepreneur, educator and venture capitalist, currently a lecturer at Spelman College. She also co-founded and formerly co-led LGBT+ VC, a nonprofit supporting LGBTQ+ allied venture investors. She is the first transgender woman to hold a position at a venture capital firm managing over a billion dollars, and the first Black trans woman to lecture in entrepreneurship at Spelman. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in cinema, television and emerging media studies from Morehouse College, where she was part of Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation, she worked at Accenture, Spotify, Silicon Valley Bank, and Sequoia Capital, among other businesses. The nonprofit runs networking events, conferences and classes for the LGBTQ community, and a 2023 summit for queer and ally investors. In 2024, she resigned from LGBT+ VC.

In 2025, Tukes was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in VC.