When it came to raising Bambee’s Series B, founder Allan Jones discovered that his 15 years of business experience did not mesh with the expectations many investors had of a Black founder.
Diversity
While there’s no silver bullet, several solutions concurrently applied can scale diversity quickly. We can apply the lessons from Reid Hoffman’s...
If we are serious about the benefits of diversity, then this is the time to take action.
Plum Alley invests in companies with female founders in STEM that have a positive impact on the environment, health, education, or employment, and...
Atlanta-based Genius Guild has come out of stealth with more than $5 million in investments to help grow the ecosystem of Black-founded companies.
MaC Venture Capital has raised an inaugural seed fund of $110 million. The Los Angeles- and Palo Alto-based firm will invest in 40 seed-stage...
U.S startups founded solely by female founders raised only $3.2 billion in 2020, down a billion dollars from $4.2 billion in 2019 — the peak year...
Emily Kirsch helped found Powerhouse eight years ago and has evolved the one-time incubator and accelerator into a consulting, innovation and...
Its first product, a micro-loan of 500 to 5,000 pesos, is granted in minutes with the only requirements being a current Mexican voter registration...
Maria Salamanca, a former refugee who came to the U.S. from Colombia at 6 years old, has been promoted to partner at Unshackled Ventures, a firm that...
The ratio of men to women in private-company boardrooms is roughly 9-to-1. Of the 2,457 board seats included in this study, 11 percent (275) were...
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