IT総合 For Black founders and investors, ringing Nasdaq’s opening bell symbolizes progress
Nasdaq on Friday hosted the New Voices Foundation and Essence Ventures, inviting some of the most prominent Black profes...
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IT総合 IT総合 Who’s afraid of diversity quotas?
Fashion: a sector known for influencing trends, creatives and perhaps the future of equity for Black entrepreneurs.
Last...
IT総合 Women-founded AI startups see a boost in VC funding
Funding to U.S.-based AI companies with at least one woman founder has steadily increased over the past few years, accor...
IT総合 AI is the next frontier — but for whom?
A few weeks ago, a founder told me it took three hours of endless clicking to find an AI-generated portrait of a Black w...
IT総合 Nex Cubed launched $40 million fund targeting Black colleges and universities
Venture firm Nex Cubed announced today the launch of the HBCU (historically Black college and university) Founders Fund,...
IT総合 VC funding to Black web3 founders popped last year, bucking trends
Much hope remains after the crypto winter almost froze the sector: the Luna crash, the bankruptcy of Celsius and the arr...
IT総合 Spatial Labs, a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, closes $10M seed round
Spatial Labs, a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, announced today the closing of a $10 million seed round led by...
IT総合 Despite 2022’s headwinds, women’s health startups did better than ever before
It’s been seven months since Roe vs. Wade was overturned, and the dust has barely begun to settle.
Politically, voters h...
IT総合 Debunking the myths of why venture investors don’t fund diverse startups
People can never land on a word to explain what is happening to women and minorities within venture. Are such founders o...
IT総合 Women-founded startups raised 1.9% of all VC funds in 2022, a drop from 2021
Last year, U.S. startups with all-women teams received 1.9% (or around $4.5 billion) out of around the $238.3 billion in...
IT総合 Web3 could help fashion become more sustainable
Actually, there is one industry that could use web3, and that industry is fashion.
Hear us out. Fashion is one of the mo...
IT総合 Funding for Black founders remains dismal — where do we go from here?
Last week, TechCrunch reported that Black founders in the United States raised 1% of the $215.9 billion in venture capit...
IT総合 Black founders still raised just 1% of all VC funds in 2022
Some. Good. News.
The latest Crunchbase data shows that Black startup founders in the United States raised around $264 m...
IT総合 Despite myriad flaws, US remains top spot for Black startup founders seeking VC dollars
Despite, well, everything, the U.S. is still the best place in the world for Black startup founders to raise money. The ...
IT総合 All we are saying is give due diligence a chance in 2023
Looking back, 2022 was quite the year for some investors, and not in a good way. Mistakes made in the boom period of the...
IT総合 3 Black investors share what they are prepping for come the new year
This year’s been eventful for investors and founders alike. Just as it seemed the venture capital boom of 2021 was slowi...
IT総合 3 Black investors talk about what they’re looking for in 2023
Founders and investors alike are bracing for a tough 2023 as the economy shows few signs of improving. But there are a l...
IT総合 The #MyTechBestfriend fallout continues
The bad blood between tech boot camp MyTechBestfriend and many of its former students is anything but finished, accordin...
IT総合 3 Black founders explain how they’re preparing for a tough 2023
Life as a startup founder is never dull. That’s doubly true for Black founders, who routinely struggle to raise funds, b...
IT総合 3 Black founders predict little will change in VC in 2023
Though inflation appears to be dropping, economic conditions remain uncertain, and the overall fundraising climate is re...
IT総合 Proposed legislation would force US higher education endowments to reveal where they invest
In January, Missouri Representative Emanuel Cleaver will introduce the Endowment Transparency Act into Congress, a move ...
IT総合 Women are rising through the ranks at VC firms, new survey shows
The next generation of women venture capitalists are rising through the leadership ranks — though there are some caveats...
IT総合 Q&A: ‘Better Venture’ authors on why VC has failed to reinvent itself
On Wednesday, Erika Brodnock and Johannes Lenhard published their book, “Better Venture: Improving Diversity, Innovation...
IT総合 Book Excerpt: ‘Better Venture’ looks at how the current venture model connects to the slave trade
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IT総合 ‘Co-warehouse’ company Saltbox closes $35M Series B
Coworking and warehouse space company Saltbox announced today the closing of a $35 million Series B led by Cox Enterpris...
IT総合 #MyTechFrenemy
Some students at the MyTechBestFriend academy have always been a little suspicious of the program and its founder, Mary ...
IT総合 TechCrunch staff on what we lose if we lose Twitter
I spied a tweet the other day that journalists would suffer if Twitter ever shut down because they would lose a driver o...
IT総合 Long live the vibe capitalist!
Last week, many investors were left with egg on their faces after FTX’s valuation went from $32 billion to zero in...
IT総合 VC investors and startup founders see hope in the red wave that wasn’t
Janna Meyrowitz Turner’s biggest concern going into the U.S. midterm elections was that more than half of American voter...
IT総合 HR platform WorkTorch raises $2.2M seed round
WorkTorch, previously known as QuickHire, announced today the closing of a $2.2 million seed round led by Tenzing Capita...