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| Mar 8, 2025 | Business | Best startup and small business grants for women | The downside is that it can be harder to qualify for a business grant than for a small business loan. You have to be prepared to put some work into the grant application.
However, if you’re a woman starting a new business, it can be much ea... |
| Mar 9, 2023 | Meet the 8 Black and Latina female founders whose startups have reached a $1 billion valuation or higher | Jessica Alba is the founder of The Honest Company. Dia Dipasupil/Getty
A report found nine Black and Latina female founders have reached a $1 billion or higher valuation.
Among these entrepreneurs are Rihanna, Jessica Alba, and the makeup a... |
| Jan 12, 2023 | Mielle Organics Co-Founders On Remaining True To Customers With Procter & Gamble Acquisition | Monique and Melvin Rodriguez, CEO and COO of Black-founded, woman-led women's hair care brand Mielle ... [+] Organics.Courtesy of Mielle Organics |
| Jan 11, 2023 | A Black Female Fintech Founder Leaned Into Her Differences To Raise $6.2 Million | The Sika Health team, Ami Kumordzie MD/MBA on rightPhilip Vukelich |
| Jan 18, 2022 | The future of funding: Why more firms are writing checks to Black women | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
When Arian Simone was trying to open her own retail store, it didn’t take long for her to notice ... |
| Sep 30, 2021 | PayPal : Meet the Winners of PayPal's Maggie Lena Walker Award | CorporateSocial Innovation
Dig into Richmond, Virginia's historical homeownership trends and you'll find a likely surprising statistic: In the 1920s, Black people owned nearly 40% of homes in the city, putting Richmond near the top of the r... |
| Mar 29, 2021 | How to Ensure Opportunity and Equality for Women Entrepreneurs Beyond Women's History Month | March 29, 2021 4 min read
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This year’s International Women’s Day theme, “#ChooseToChallenge,” brings with it a heightened sense of urgency. This past year posed a unique set of c... |
| Feb 27, 2021 | Black and LatinX female founders received record funding last year, but still got less than 1% of total venture funds | CEO of digitalundivided Lauren Maillian VickyG Creative/Vicky Garcia This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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In 2020, Black and Latinx women raised $3.1 billion in vent... |
| Jan 13, 2021 | From Microaggressions To Mansplaining: Busting Biases In Venture Capital | getty |
| Jan 5, 2021 | Hundreds of startups go public every year. Only 20 have ever been founded and led by women. | Katrina Lake is the founder and chief executive of Stitch Fix. She is one of just 20 women who have led a startup through to an initial public offering. Katrina Lake/Facebook
Each year since the New York Stock Exchange was founded, in 1817,... |
| Jan 5, 2021 | Hundreds of startups go public every year. Only 20 have ever been founded and led by women. | Each year since the New York Stock Exchange was founded, in 1817, hundreds of companies have gone public. Only 20 have been founded and led to an IPO by women.
There are many reasons women and minorities have been held back. Among them: Few... |
| Dec 11, 2020 | Black and Latinx women founders who raised $1M more than doubled over last 2 years, report finds | The number of Black and Latinx women founders raising nine figures in the U.S. more than doubled over the last two years, but entrepreneurs who identify in these groups still receive less than 1% of all venture funding.
That’s according to ... |
| Dec 2, 2020 | The number of Black female founders who have raised more than $1 million has nearly tripled since 2018 | While the $1 billion unicorn valuation is still the milestone of choice for many startups, for Black women a notable benchmark comes a lot earlier in a startup's life cycle. In 2018, only 34 Black female founders had ever raised $1 million ... |
| Sep 22, 2020 | Report: Struggling Black-Owned Businesses Need More Government Grants | getty |
| Aug 14, 2020 | A beginner’s guide to diversity, equity and inclusion | After Minneapolis police killed George Floyd and the subsequent racial justice uprising, many people in tech shouted from the rooftops that “Black Lives Matter,” despite having subpar representation of Black and Latinx folks at their compan... |
| Jul 16, 2020 | What 5 Black And Latinx Entrepreneurs Learned From Pivoting During COVID-19 | Cyndi Ramirez, founder of Chillhouse. Courtesy of Digital Undivided.Primo Supremo Photography. All Rights Reserved. |
| Jun 3, 2020 | Blck VC Group Launches 'We Won't Wait' Campaign Pushing for Diversity in Investing Groups | Venture capital has fueled billions of dollars in wealth but it has largely excluded black Americans. Only 1% of venture-funded startup founders are black and more than 80% of venture firms don't have a single black investor.
Blck VC, a gro... |
| Jun 14, 2019 | VCs are failing diverse founders; Elizabeth Warren wants to step in | Elizabeth Warren, who earlier this year confirmed her intent to run for president in 2020, has an ambitious plan to advance entrepreneurs of color.
In a series of tweets published this morning, the Massachusetts senator proposed a $7 billio... |
| Dec 12, 2018 | Out of $85 Billion in VC Funding Last Year, Only 2.2 Percent Went to Female Founders. And Every Year, Women of Color Get Less Than 1 Percent of Total Funding. | December 12, 2018 15+ min read
“You’ve clearly got what founders are made of, but I hope you're not planning to get pregnant anytime soon.”
As the co-founder of comprehensive maternity healthcare company Mahmee, CEO Melissa Hanna is an expe... |
| Nov 8, 2018 | 81% of VC firms don’t have a single black investor — BLCK VC wants to change that | Venture capital has a diversity problem.
BLCK VC, a new organization founded by Storm Ventures associate Frederik Groce and NEA associate Sydney Sykes meant to connect, engage and advance black venture capitalists, is ready for a new era in... |
| Oct 26, 2018 | Latinx Female Founders Receive Only 0.4% of Venture Capital Funding | Latinx women received 0.4% of $400 billion in venture capital funding between 2009 and 2017, and only 58 LatinX women have ever raised over $1 million in venture funding, according to a new report.
An organization that supports black and La... |
| Oct 26, 2018 | Study: Latinx women-led startups have raised 0.4% of VC since 2009 | In recent years, many have pushed to level the playing field for women in tech through new initiatives, funds, companies, support networks and more. White women, however, have emerged as the key beneficiaries.
Less has been done to bolster ... |
| Oct 23, 2018 | 98 Percent of VC Funding Goes to Men. Can Women Entrepreneurs Change a Sexist System? | October 23, 2018 12 min read
This story was originally published on June 29, 2018, and has been updated.
It was January 2017. A 26-year-old Nadia Genevieve Masri made her way up to the second floor office of a venture capital fund in San Fr... |
| Sep 17, 2018 | Base10’s debut fund is the largest ever for a Black-led VC firm | Adeyemi Ajao (above left), the co-founder and managing director of Base10 Partners, was surprised to hear his firm’s $137 million fund was the largest debut to date for a black-led venture capital firm.
He and his co-founder — managing dire... |
| Jul 13, 2018 | 17 Young Women of Color Breaking Barriers in STEM | This summer, Diana Wilson is celebrating her graduation from the University of Virginia and is starting her career as an associate product marketing manager at Google. This is an exciting new chapter for Diana, who is a 2017 Forbes 30 under... |
| Jul 7, 2018 | There’s a new, $100 million fund expressly for women founders of color | When Richelieu Dennis came to the U.S. from his home in Liberia to attend Babson College, he wasn’t expecting to stay. But unable to return home owing to the first Liberian civil war, stay he did, building the personal care products company... |
| Jun 28, 2018 | Grace Hopper computing conference looks to bring more attention to women of color | AnitaB.org, the organization behind the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, has released its second-ever diversity report.
As of today, AnitaB.org employs 59 people — 27 white people, seven black people, seven Latinx peop... |
| Jun 13, 2018 | An update on black women raising startup funding | Black women are faring a tiny bit better in the tech industry than they (we) were a couple of years ago. While the number of black women who have received more than $1 million in investment is growing, the number is still small. In 2015, th... |
| Apr 29, 2018 | 3 black female founders share how they got funded in the Midwest | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Female founders are underfunded and underrepresen... |
| Apr 29, 2018 | 3 black female founders share how they got funded in the Midwest | Female founders are underfunded and underrepresented, but black female founders bear a disproportionate share of the burden. While female founders overall receive 2.7 percent of all venture funding relative to their male counterparts, black... |
| Apr 3, 2018 | Case Foundation’s Sarah Koch on the Importance of Inclusivity and Diversity in the Tech Industry | |
| Apr 5, 2017 | Etsy doesn’t want ‘cultural fit’ | Be careful how you ask an Etsy engineer what kind of person is a “cultural fit” for working at the publicly traded, peer-to-peer ecommerce icon.
“We’ve found that phrase allows a lot of unconscious bias to creep into the hiring process,” sa... |
| Feb 23, 2017 | Why we need diverse founder and funding teams and how to find them | Shannon Farley Contributor
Shannon Farley is co-founder and executive director at Fast Forward, a tech accelerator for social impact startups.
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Five key lessons from founders who launched social impact startups... |
| Dec 1, 2016 | Remember when GZA performed at the Crunchies? | Way back in 2012, at the 6th Annual Crunchies Awards, GZA presented an award with then-writer Drew Olanoff. And then he performed. The video is above. Excuse the audio. It’s really bad for some reason.
This February TechCrunch will host ano... |
| Nov 29, 2016 | That time John Oliver roasted Silicon Valley at the Crunchies | Two years ago John Oliver returned to host the Crunchies for the second time. And he roasted the crowd. The video is below and it’s worth watching.
This February TechCrunch will host another Crunchies award show. This is the 10th year. A lo... |
| Nov 21, 2016 | Announcing the finalists for the 10th Annual Crunchies Awards | It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for.
Today, we announce the finalists in each category for the 10th Annual Crunchies Awards show.
The Crunchies is a long-standing tradition in the tech world, where readers nominate products, people a... |
| Aug 3, 2016 | Meet Tech’s Real Unicorns: Latina and Black Female Entrepreneurs | This piece originally appeared on Uncubed.
It’s not easy funding any startup, but if that startup is founded by a black or Latina woman, it becomes almost impossible.
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| May 8, 2016 | AlexaSite wins the Disrupt NY 2016 Hackathon Grand Prize | It’s been a long night at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. But this time, you couldn’t see anyone waiting for a boat. Instead, the Cruise Terminal hosted a very special competition — the Disrupt NY Hackathon.
Around 650 engineers and designers... |
| May 6, 2016 | Announcing the Disrupt NY Hackathon judges and API workshops | The TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon kicks off tomorrow at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, and we’re honored to welcome the hackathon’s stellar judges. Nicholas Chirls
Nick Chirls is a partner at Notation Capital, a pre-seed fund based in Broo... |
| Apr 11, 2016 | #BFF aims to create a network of Black female founders in DC | A new report from Digital Undivided, an organization that looks to empower female entrepreneurs of color, studied over 88 tech startups founded by Black women and concluded that these women are the true unicorns of the space.
Why? Because d... |
| Mar 21, 2016 | Digitalundivided to Open Innovation Center for Black and Latina Women Founders | This year at SXSW Interactive we heard from startups, saw products launch, and even had business lessons from Anthony Bourdain. Unfortunately much of this also has a common theme: a lack of diversity. However, on March 13 at SXSWi, digitalu... |
| Mar 13, 2016 | Innovation center for black and Latina founders opens this summer in Atlanta | digitalundivided, an organization geared toward advancing equity in tech, is opening an innovation center for black and Latina female founders in tech this summer.
Located in downtown Atlanta, GA, the BIG Innovation Center will be home to a... |
| Feb 29, 2016 | 4D Healthware Raises $710K to Create a 'Dashboard' for Health Alerts | The venture funding statistics around African American female startup founders are startling. Of the 10,238 venture deals from 2012 to 2014, only 24 went to black women (just 0.2%). And African American female-led startups on average raise ... |
| Feb 13, 2016 | It’s True, Black Female Founders Receive Basically Zero Venture Capital | In “The Real Unicorns of Tech: Black Founders Women,” a recent report by #ProjectDiane, you’ll come across several startling statistics like, for example, of all venture deals from 2012 to 2014, only 0.2% (24 of 10,238 deals) went to went t... |
| Jul 27, 2015 | Dear Investors, Fund More Underrepresented Founders In Tech | If the future of the tech industry is to be a culture of inclusion and diversity, then women founders and founders of color need funding. Although Google, Twitter, Pandora, Facebook and other tech companies released their diversity data las... |
| Mar 21, 2015 | Kathryn Finney: Diverse Communities Need More Exits [VIDEO] | Recently, a reality TV show call for “powerful African American women in the tech space” arrived in Kathryn Finney‘s inbox. Rightfully so, she was outraged. The email went on to portray the producers' idea of a “strong leader” with an “over... |
| Aug 13, 2014 | Tech seers gaze into the mobile(y) future | This sponsored post is produced by The Mobileys.
Earlier this year, Kleiner Perkins’ Mary Meeker declared smartphones and tablets “so 2013.” The future of computing, she proclaimed, is all about “wearables, drivables, flyables and scannable... |
| Oct 3, 2013 | Diverse Startups Can Receive Tech Mentorship And Thrive | About a year ago, Rachel Brooks was poised to bring her startup to the next level.
Her company, Citizen Made, which makes tools to help companies sell custom products, won a L’Oréal Women in Digital grant, giving it the funding it needed to... |
| Sep 23, 2013 | Black, female, and smart: Google sponsoring Focus100 hackathon, bootcamp, symposium | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
On Friday, Oct. 4, hundreds will gather a few steps away from Times Square in New York City for Focus 100, a symposium, bootcamp, and h... |
| Sep 23, 2013 | Black, female, and smart: Google sponsoring Focus100 hackathon, bootcamp, symposium | On Friday, Oct. 4, hundreds will gather a few steps away from Times Square in New York City for Focus 100, a symposium, bootcamp, and hackathon for black women programmers, founders, angel investors, and innovators.
There, they’ll see somet... |
| Sep 29, 2012 | The Search For Minority Entrepreneurs Is Over — Now They Need To Be Ready For Investors | Editor’s note: Wayne Sutton is the founder and CEO of PitchTo, a mobile development lab that builds tools for investors to make smarter decisions and help entrepreneurs deliver exceptional pitches. This article is inspired by Dave McClure’s... |
| Subscribe to our newsletter to catch every headline. | The website for Artie is pretty colorful but it won't tell you much right now. But we can report to you that the L.A.-based startup is backed by, among some famous investors, NBA star Kevin Durant and Taylor Swift nemesis Scooter Braun, and... |
| Small Business Grants You Can Apply For in July 2024 | As we ease into the summer months, business optimism finally seems to have recovered from its Covid-induced slump, with a new survey from the US Chamber of Commerce revealing that 73% of US business owners expect their revenue to grow in th... |
| Mielle Organics Breaks the Glass Ceiling for Black-Owned, Women-Led Haircare Brands with Historic Investment | Mielle Founder and CEO maintains majority control with investment to further Mielle’s mission and community development |
