Deborah Buresh Jackson is a former Goldman Sachs investment banker who deliberately disrupted her own career multiple times, leaving Wall Street to start a boutique firm and later reinventing herself as a tech entrepreneur, and who views herself as a builder of institutions for those historically excluded from capital flows, explicitly modeling women-led venture platforms on how early Jewish-founded Wall Street firms emerged to solve discrimination in finance. She pioneered all-women tech spaces by co-founding one of the first mobile-first accelerators focused on female-led startups and sponsoring what she describes as the first all-women hackathon, and has a distinctive thesis that women investors move money differently by deploying capital only when their head, heart and soul are engaged and they see a path to a better world for their families and communities.

• Advocacy for diverse founders and female leadership. She frequently highlights the success of women in finance and supports initiatives like the 15 Percent Pledge that aim to build wealth for Black business owners.
• Deep interest in climate solutions with a social justice angle. She promotes portfolio companies like Aclima that tackle air quality issues while specifically noting how pollution unfairly impacts communities of color.
• Focus on health technology and longevity. She discusses the advantages of age and experience, referencing her own founding of Plum Alley after age fifty, and invests in companies like Gameto that are advancing female reproductive health.
• Strong commitment to democratic values and ethical leadership. She shares content related to protecting democratic institutions and praises individuals who show moral courage, such as the Facebook whistleblower who testified about platform safety.
• Engagement with next-generation technologies. Her posts cover the societal impacts of the metaverse and the rise of autonomous transport, evidenced by her repeated support for electric trucking startup Einride.