IT総合 What can Black VCs and founders expect in H2 2022?
Black founders raised 1.3% of last year’s $330 billion worth of U.S. venture investment, totaling just over $4.3 b...
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IT総合 IT総合 Roe reversal weighs heavily on emerging tech cities in red states
On June 24, Khadijah Robinson planned to offer a woman a job.
As founder of the Atlanta-based tech startup Nile, she spe...
IT総合 One to Watch: Debut Capital’s Pilar Johnson works to augment funding for overlooked founders
There is a moment from around April 2021 that Pilar Johnson thinks about often.
She was scared and nervous. The Houston ...
IT総合 AI Squared raises $6M to help companies integrate AI into existing applications
Integration platform AI Squared announced today the closing of a $6 million seed round led by NEA with participation fro...
IT総合 VCs shouldn’t confuse risk management with not funding diverse founders
The news that funding for Black founders is falling was no shock to the Black community, much of which was raised with t...
IT総合 It’s time for LPs to take more responsibility in the fight for economic equality
The past decade has seen Black founders raise a vanishingly small portion of venture capital funding. How to fix the pro...
IT総合 Black founders are seeing a decrease in funding amid economic downturn
It’s confirmed — Black entrepreneurs saw a dramatic decrease in funding this year as investors continue to pull back.
So...
IT総合 Black Gen Z VCs are here and swinging for the fences
One day early in the pandemic, Dazayah Walker came across a job she’d never heard of before: venture capitalist investor...
IT総合 Fearless Fund’s Arian Simone on why a downturn is business as usual for minority founders
Arian Simone sat poised center stage at the Embrace Action Summit to share words that many entrepreneurs in the audience...
IT総合 VCs flock to TikTok to reach the next generation of founders and investors
In January, Redpoint Ventures gave Rashad Assir one task: Make TikToks about venture capital.
At the time, Assir ran his...
IT総合 Gander closes $4.2M seed round to ‘humanize’ online shopping
E-commerce platform Gander announced today the closing of a $4.2 million seed round co-led by Harlem Capital and Crossbe...
IT総合 Five to Nine raises $4.5M seed round to help improve the efficiency of DEI initiatives
Five to Nine, which makes event management software, has closed a $4.5 million seed round led by Black Ops Ventures.
Lau...
IT総合 Black Founders Matter presses VCs to pledge commitment to diversity
As a child, Marceau Michel always asked for a quarter.
He knew if he kept asking for a quarter, he’d have a dollar one d...