Meet Dorian.

Dorian McKenzie-Rader is a pioneer.
She became the youngest fund manager in state history in 2017, and now is one of only a handful of women managing a venture capital firm. As Managing Partner of OneTen Capital, she is continuing her life’s work of growing innovative technology startups in New Mexico.

Although Dorian has seen the number of women in venture capital grow, they still only make up 5% of the VC managing partners nationwide. She has witnessed how only 2% of the companies that receive venture capital funding each year are headed by women. And now she’s decided it’s time to use her experience, position, and power to change that.

Dorian believes strongly in mentoring and education. So if a company is not right for funding now, with her guidance they can become a fundable company. This helps raise the level of the business ecosystem across the region.

Her career builds on her beginnings as an entrepreneur with a water tech startup. After being introduced to angel investors at a UNM business competition she was fascinated, and began to study the world of capital investment. Since then Dorian has launched 14 high-tech companies and used her background in finance and operations to ensure that these organizations are stable and fiscally responsible.

In addition to the fund, Dorian co-founded New Mexico Startup Factory to license innovations from research institutions in order to create investable companies. She served as the Angel-in-Residence at Sandia National Laboratories, and led the Water Accelerator for impact fund, Village Capital. She continues to advise as Angel Emertius to the New Mexico Angels, where she served as Vice President for the better part of a decade.

Apart from her immersion in high tech business, Dorian is an active in the community as a youth soccer coach, a proud Honorary Command Chief to the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center at Kirtland Air Force Base, mentor to veterans through American Corporate Partners (ACP), and an active volunteer in her community.

Dorian holds a BBA from UNM Anderson School of Management with a focus in Entrepreneurial Studies, is a graduate of VC University and holds certificates in Specialization in Strategy from Harvard University and Cornell University. She was inducted into the UNM-Anderson School of Management Hall of Fame in 2023.