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http://www.devcolor.org/
Last activity: 31.08.2021
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A nonprofit that maximizes the impact of Black software engineers
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Location
United States, California, San Francisco
Employees
11-50
Founded date
2015

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Apr 22, 2021At Basis Set Ventures, merging venture capital and software development yields a $165 million new fundWhen Xuezhao Lan first formed Basis Set Ventures, the goal was to leverage technology to give venture capital investing super powers. From the earliest days, when Lan hired former TechCrunch reporter John Mannes, and then built out the team...
Oct 1, 2020Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Tips for StartupsDiversity in tech has been a “hot button” issue for years and recent events have brought the importance of the topic to the forefront of large corporations, startups, and funders alike. Building a diverse team and inclusive ecosystem has be...
Aug 12, 2020Triplebyte incubates ColorStack to increase Black and Latinx representation in CS programsTriplebyte, a technical recruiting platform that emphasizes a candidate’s skills rather than background, has incubated nonprofit ColorStack, which aims to increase the number of Black and Latinx people enrolled in computer science programs....
Apr 2, 2019Babatunde Fashola is a Nigerian software engineer that works at Twitter HQ in Silicon ValleyShare this article: In May 2018, Twitter officially released the Account Activity API to help developers build solutions that enable businesses create better customer engagement experiences on its platform. On the team of engineers that wor...
Mar 4, 2019Building a diverse and inclusive health care company takes work but is worth the effortDiversity and inclusion tend to get more lip service than action, often because business leaders don’t always recognize the connection between the two and company performance. That’s a mistake, because they are inextricably linked. In fairn...
Feb 28, 2017Breaking Into Startups: How a 16-year-old dropout became a senior engineer at SlackRuben Harris Contributor Ruben Harris is a professional cellist and a recovering investment banker who now leads partnerships in San Francisco for Honor, a healthcare startup focused on seniors. He is also a founder of the Breaking Into Sta...
Aug 25, 2016Все стартапы последнего набора акселераторов Y Combinator, 500 Startups и ФРИИ Статьи редакцииРедакция vc.ru собрала в одном материале все стартапы из последних наборов стартап-акселераторов Y Combinator, 500 Startups и ФРИИ. Y Combinator Выпуск — 22-24 августа 2016 года. Airfordable — сервис для заказа авиабилетов в рассрочку. Airo...
Jul 14, 2016raceAhead: Why You Need to Understand Black Lives MattersLast week, ethnographer and writer Christina Xu, and a growing cadre of friends from around the world, exemplified what it means to be an ally. They also gave us an extraordinary opportunity to look at the world through another culture’s ey...
Oct 8, 2015Pinterest Engineer Launches /dev/color To Support Communities of Black EngineersBlack students are earning four percent of computer science Bachelor degrees but make up less than two percent of the tech industry, according to the Computer Research Association and company reports. Makinde Adeagbo, an engineer at Pintere...
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When was /dev/color founded?

/dev/color was founded in 2015.

What has the press written about /dev/color?

Parsers VC has collected 11 articles mentioning /dev/color, among them “At Basis Set Ventures, merging venture capital and software development yields a $165 million new fund” (Apr 22, 2021) and “Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Tips for Startups” (Oct 1, 2020).

Is /dev/color still active?

Yes, /dev/color is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Aug 31, 2021.