The Leaders
Ren Isobe-Carvalho
Typographer & Venture Investor
Tokyo & São Paulo
Good type is a contract with the reader. Good investing is the same contract with a founder.
Ren began as a type designer for transit systems, drawing wayfinding alphabets for stations in Tokyo and São Paulo. She co-founded a small venture fund in 2019 after watching designers repeatedly lose control of the companies they started.
Her fund has backed twenty-three companies, and her typeface Linha is still read by four million commuters every day.
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