Date | Title | Description |
11.10.2023 | Investors suggest funds prepare for the fallout of the Fearless Fund lawsuit, not worry about it | Fearless Fund, which provides grants and investments to women of color, has been indefinitely barred from deploying its $20,000 grant to Black women after the American Alliance for Equal Rights, led by conservative activist Edward Blum (bes... |
02.02.2023 | Carlissia Graham Named President of Impact Investment Fund New Media Ventures | Carlissia’s passion for supporting progressive infrastructure that safeguards our democracy cannot be overstated. We're proud to continue our partnership with NMV ... under her leadership.”
— Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, Co-founder, Chief Stra... |
25.02.2021 | Black Futures Month: 8 Black Entrepreneurs To Watch | Top row, left to right: Sabrina Hersi Issa, Tai Beauchamp, Ashley Edwards, Eda Henries. (Bottom row, ... [+] left to right: Eunique Jones Gibson, Aaron Clanton, Tracey Pickett, Zuleyka Strasner. Jasmine Rashid |
07.04.2020 | New Media Ventures creates rapid-response fund for political startups in the COVID-19 era | The decade-old New Media Ventures investment fund, which backs startup businesses and non-profits developing technologies to improve access to government, said it is raising a “Crisis Innovation Fund” aiming to provide matching grants for s... |
15.10.2016 | Funders must give minority founders a fair deal | Kathleen Kelly Janus Contributor
Kathleen Kelly Janus is a lecturer at Stanford's Program on Social Entrepreneurship.
I learned a shocking statistic recently: Less than 1 percent of venture capital funding goes to black founders. This must ... |
25.03.2015 | Former Obama Data Scientists Get $50K for their Mission-Driven Marketing Startup | Last Fall, New Ventures Media (NVM), the national network of angel investors supporting media and tech startups, announced the launch of their Innovation Fund, a financing vehicle for growth-stage companies that are driving progressive chan... |
06.06.2010 | New Media Ventures Launches a National Network of Progressive Angel Investors | New Media Ventures, the first national network of angel investors focused on creating political change, launched last week in New York. Investors in the network intend to provide seed funding to new media and tech startups that are developi... |