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| Mar 11, 2023 | I raised $9.75 million for my health and wellness company as a Black female founder. Here's how I did it and found the right investors. | Vanessa Rissetto (left) and Tamar Samuels (right) cofounded Culina Health. Lauren Anzevino
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Vanessa Rissetto launched Culina Health in February 2020 with her cofounder, Tamar Samuels.
The duo has raised $9.75 million in VC, a majo... |
| Mar 3, 2023 | UBS Fuels The Next Decade Of Black Innovation With $3 Million Commitment | Kelly Burton, Black Innovation Alliance CEO, being interviewed at Web Summit in Lisbon, PortugalBlack Innovation Alliance |
| Nov 10, 2022 | How a 26-year-old Black female founder raised $14.8 million in venture capital for her skincare brand, Topicals | Olamide Olowe is the founder and CEO of Topicals. Olamide Olowe
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Olamide Olowe is the founder and CEO of Topicals, which makes products for chronic skin conditions.
On Thursday, Topicals announced a $10 million Series A round led ... |
| Aug 17, 2022 | Maacha Le Blanc Raised $5 Million For Her Freeze Dried Milk Milli Mylk | Maacha Le Blanc, founder of Milli Mylk. Courtesy of Milli Mylk |
| Apr 5, 2022 | Black Americans represent the fastest-rising class of business owners. Here's how the 15 Percent Pledge aims to help Black entrepreneurs generate $1.4 trillion in wealth. | Aurora James launched the 15 Percent Pledge to increase opportunities for Black entrepreneurs.
The nonprofit says it's helped generate $10 billion in revenue for Black entrepreneurs since 2020.
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| Mar 23, 2022 | Women’s Center for Entrepreneurship Honors Women’s History Month With Special Programs and Critical Resources for Women Entrepreneurs | Women's Center for Entreprerneurship - WCEC Women's Business Center At the WCEC, we are proud to offer exciting programs that focus on e-commerce, along with a roster of top notch instructors because we understand that when we equip women e... |
| Mar 7, 2022 | Model Winnie Harlow raises $4.1 million to launch Cay Skin, a sun care brand for all skin tones | This is the web version of The Broadsheet, a daily newsletter for and about the world’s most powerful women. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| Feb 5, 2022 | Relationships Are Rocket Ships—And Other Advice From Black Female Founders Who Have Successfully Bridged The Funding Gap | Black female founders are not getting their fair share of VC fundinggetty |
| Feb 2, 2022 | A Black woman’s guide to venture-capital fundraising: How to pitch investors, build a support network, and raise millions. | . Diaundra Jones
Raising venture capital is a daunting experience for Black women.
Before 2021, only 93 Black female founders had raised $US1 ($AU1) million or more in venture capital.
Insider compiled a guide to help Black women through th... |
| Feb 2, 2022 | A Black woman's guide to venture-capital fundraising: How to pitch investors, build a support network, and raise millions. | Raising venture capital is a daunting experience for Black women.
Before 2021, only 93 Black female founders had raised $1 million or more in venture capital.
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| Feb 2, 2022 | Natural Feminine Hygiene Startup Overcomes Challenges And Gets $1.25 Million In VC Funds | Left: Barbara McLaren MD, president and cofounder of Kushae. Right: Kimba Williams, CEO and ... [+] cofounder Kushshae |
| Dec 29, 2021 | Latinx Founders Raise $30 Million In VC Funding By Helping Families Provide Eldercare | Jonathan Magolnick (left) Bianca Padilla (right) of Carewell and Padilla mother and grandmother ... [+] (center) Carewell |
| Nov 7, 2021 | Fewer than 200 Black female founders have ever received $1 million in VC funding. 7 women who did it share their best fundraising advice. | The venture-capital space isn't the most welcoming environment for Black women.
As of 2020, only 93 Black women had raised $1 million or more in venture funds.
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| Nov 7, 2021 | Fewer than 200 Black female founders have ever received $1 million in VC funding. 7 women who did it share their best fundraising advice. | Britney Winters, Joanna Smith, and Tanya van Court. Courtesy of Britney Winters, Mamadi Doumbouya, and Tanya van Court; Skye Gould/Insider
The venture-capital space isn’t the most welcoming environment for Black women.
As of 2020, only 93 B... |
| Oct 25, 2021 | Baltimore firms are backing 3D printing company Danae with investment, infrastructure | Baltimore 3D printing design and manufacturing company Danae is partnering with Materic, and received investment from Conscious Venture Partners. It will allow the Pigtown-based company to expand and grow to new heights.
The support comes f... |
| Oct 20, 2021 | The WELL is growing a network of Black women entrepreneurs | The Women’s Entrepreneur Leadership Lab (WELL) is having a homecoming this week.
The WELL, which is marking its third anniversary, is a network of Black women business owners that facilitates peer-supported growth by fostering relationships... |
| 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... |
| Aug 4, 2021 | Venture capital undermines human rights | Michael Kleinman Contributor
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Michael Kleinman is the director of Amnesty International’s Silicon Valley Initiative.
The future of technology is determined by a handful of venture capitalists. The world’s 10 leading venture ... |
| Jul 22, 2021 | Why Don’t More Minorities Launch VC-Backed Businesses? Plus 4 Ways VCs Can Help | By Rachel ten Brink |
| Jun 29, 2021 | Sex Product Startup Maude Surpasses $10 Million In Funding, Raises Unprecedented Series A | Maude CEO, Eva Goicochea. Maude |
| May 25, 2021 | Black Female Entrepreneurs Are Launching More Businesses Than Ever: Here’s What They Need To Help Them Mature | Open for businessgetty |
| May 12, 2021 | Black Female Founder Uses Network To Raise VC Funds For Black-Oriented Business | Britney Winters, founder and CEO at Upgrade BoutiqueDevon Coleman |
| Apr 9, 2021 | ‘Full stop, this is a crisis’: Baltimore CEOs on fundraising — and the dearth of support for Black women founders | Startup fundraising is challenging for any founder — in any locale, of any background. COVID-19 has leveled certain playing fields, thanks to the rise of all-virtual-everything. But odds against certain underrepresented groups have persiste... |
| Apr 9, 2021 | ‘Full stop, this is a crisis’: Baltimore CEOs on fundraising — and the dearth of support for Black women founders | This editorial article is a part of Funding Women Founders Month of Technical.ly's editorial calendar.
Startup fundraising is challenging for any founder — in any locale, of any background. COVID-19 has leveled certain playing fields, thank... |
| Mar 12, 2021 | The founder of Care.com uses empathy, not frustration, to combat biases at work | Sheila Marcelo. Courtesy of Sheila Marcelo
Care.com founder Sheila Marcelo has faced plenty of biases in her rise to the top.
But she's been able to overcome them with a distinctly authentic and empathetic approach.
Through perseverance, Ma... |
| Mar 12, 2021 | The founder of Care.com uses empathy, not frustration, to combat biases at work | Sheila Marcelo. Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images
Care.com founder Sheila Marcelo has faced plenty of biases in her rise to the top.
But she’s been able to overcome them with a distinctly authentic and empathetic approach.
Through persevera... |
| 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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| Feb 26, 2021 | Broaden your view of ‘best’ to make smarter, more inclusive investments | David Teten Contributor
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David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten.
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| Feb 24, 2021 | Delaware is a top-10 state for Black women business owners | It’s not easy being a Black woman entrepreneur, from a lack of VC funding to challenges finding brick and mortar space. Funding for Black and Latina women has tripled between 2018 and 2020, according to the biennial report ProjectDiane — st... |
| Feb 22, 2021 | Elise Smith, CEO Of Praxis Labs, Raises $3.2 Million In Venture Capital To Help Bring Forth More Conscious Leaders Using Virtual Reality | Elise Smith, Co-Founder & CEO, Praxis Labs Photo credit: Brandon Appleton |
| Feb 10, 2021 | Meet 22 women who launched and led startups to an IPO, an accomplishment few female founders have ever reached | BlackLine Founder and CEO Therese Tucker. Courtesy of BlackLine, Inc.
Very few women founders have been able to scale and lead their startups to an IPO.
Only about 4 accomplished this in 2020. Only about 20 have in recent history.
These tra... |
| Feb 2, 2021 | Black Girl Ventures Partners With NIKE, Inc. Making Capital Accessible To Black, Brown Women Founders | Shelly Bell, founder and CEO of Black Girl Ventures, creates access to capital for Black and Brown ... [+] women-owned businesses.Aisha Butler from Jazzy Studios |
| Jan 27, 2021 | Latina E-Commerce Founder Inspires Women To Take The Entrepreneurial Leap | Selene Cruz, CEO and Founder KnockKnock.tv, Re:store, and Archer BrightonHieu Tran |
| Jan 21, 2021 | These 3 Women Are Shaping The Future Of Women’s Health By Bringing Next Generation Of FemTech Products To The Market | breathe ilo, OCON Healthcare and Eli are three femtech startups innovating in the fertility and ... [+] contraception spaceVARIOUS |
| Jan 17, 2021 | How To Launch An Intergenerational Small Business In Midlife | By Kerry Hannon, Next Avenue |
| Jan 6, 2021 | Kanarys Boosts Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Platform Following $3M Seed | 5 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are top of mind for employers, and Kanarys aims to be the technology platform for companies that want to measure their DEI platform and implement changes.
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| Jan 6, 2021 | Kanarys Boosts Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Platform Following $3M Seed | 13 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are top of mind for employers, and Kanarys aims to be the technology platform for companies that want to measure their DEI platform and implement changes.
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| 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... |
| 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,... |
| Dec 30, 2020 | Smart VCs Recognize That Black Female Founders May Lead The Next Unicorns | Courtne Smith, CEO and co-founder, NewNewPhotocred |
| 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 10, 2020 | 51 VCs Who Want To Invest In Women, Black And Latinx, And LGBTQ+ Founders | Erica Chidi, co-founder and chief executive officer of Loom, speaks during the 2020 Makers ... [+] Conference in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. The event gathers industry leading females for roundtable discussio... |
| 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 ... |
| Nov 9, 2020 | Startup fundraising is the most tangible gender gap. How can we overcome it? | Ximena Aleman Contributor
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| Oct 28, 2020 | Californians Can Ensure Women And Diverse Founders Get The Funding They Need | Left to right: Sequoia Blodgett, Tech Editor—Black Enterprise, founder—Commas, Filmmaker, Producer, ... [+] Podcaster; Tracy Gray—founder, managing partner—The 22Fund; Carmen Palafox, founder—2045 Ventures, Partner—Make in LA (MiLA) Capital... |
| Oct 28, 2020 | Female-Led EdTech Startup Edlyft Raises $1.4 Million Seed Round, Aims To Close The Gender Gap In STEM | Erika Hairston and Arnelle Ansong, co-founders of EdfyltEdLyft |
| Sep 22, 2020 | Diversity As $uperpower: The (Well-Known) Data Against Homogeneous Teams In Venture Capital | By Lisa Stone, Managing Director, WestRiver Group. C200 member since 2016. |
| Sep 3, 2020 | Building paths to funding for Black female founders | Amid a racial justice reckoning following countless events of police brutality (justice for Breonna Taylor), it’s high time companies and investors in the tech industry do more than just say “Black Lives Matter,” but show that Black lives m... |
| Aug 12, 2020 | Kamala Harris Is Biden’s VP Pick But What Does That Mean For Black Women Entrepreneurship? | Kamala Harris Getty Images |
| Aug 12, 2020 | “A Responsibility To Their Communities”: Why Companies Should Focus On Supply Chain Equity | By many measures, Detroit-based Ellis Island Tea was doing well in 2019. In a decade, owner Nailah Ellis had grown her bottled Jamaican sweet tea business from selling out of the trunk of her car to an award-winning operation with products ... |
| Apr 3, 2018 | Case Foundation’s Sarah Koch on the Importance of Inclusivity and Diversity in the Tech Industry | |
| Jan 16, 2017 | 10 African American Founders Making Strides in Tech | While startups continue to pop up around the country, the black demographic continues to making strides in the tech world. In a recent report by #ProjectDiane, powered by digitalundivided, there was a “322% increase in the amount of black f... |
| 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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| Jul 19, 2016 | Sibyl Edwards is leading the charge to get more women of color in #dctech | Sibyl Edwards has made it her mission to cultivate spaces for the D.C. tech community to discuss the need for more diversity in the field.
She cofounded Black Female Founders (#BFF), launched D.C.’s first women in tech conference CODE(her) ... |
| Jun 13, 2016 | It’s time for men to champion women in tech | Craig Newmark Contributor
Craig Newmark is the founder of craigslist. His latest venture, craigconnects, helps drive peer-to-peer, grassroots civic engagement and philanthropy to support veterans and military families; trustworthy journalis... |
| 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... |
| How Black women can navigate difficult pitch meetings with confidence, according to 8 founders who've raised more than $5 million in venture capital | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Conversing and connecting with investors is important when it comes to raising money.
But this can pose problems for Black women, who often... |
| 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 |
| Here are 49 Black women who raised $1 million or more in VC funding last year | Ami Colé founder Diarrha N'Diaye Katherine Pekala This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Only 3% of Black women are running mature businesses. Three founders of successful companies share strategies for sustainability. | Tracy Green, left, and Nancey Flowers-Harris, right. Felix Natal, Jr. This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
For Black women entrepreneurs, there are many roadblocks to starting ... |
| Covid proved service workers deserve better. These sisters launched an app to help them find good jobs | The launch of QuickHire was spurred by the pandemic, but it's really been years in the making.
Angela Muhwezi-Hall, 32, first thought of the idea in 2017 when she was working as a college and career counselor for high school students in Los... |
| Black women face an uphill battle when raising capital. Six founders who've raised more than $5 million share the ways they craft pitch decks to win over investors | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Black women must craft their pitch decks differently in order to raise investor money.
The stakes are high — their median seed round is $12... |
| How an ex-TikTok employee is using the app to market her new startup to potential users and investors | Your browser does not support the video element. This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Mastercard announces an investment and a partnership in Black-owned businesses | Mastercard announced a multimillion dollar investment in the venture capital Fearless Fund and a debit card partnership with new fintech firm Greenwood.
Fearless Fund co-founder Arian Simone said “the sky’s the limit” when women of color ge... |
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| A Black woman's guide to venture-capital fundraising: How to pitch investors, build a support network, and raise millions. | Diaundra Jones. Diaundra Jones
Raising venture capital is a daunting experience for Black women.
Before 2021, only 93 Black female founders had raised $1 million or more in venture capital.
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| Loans and VC can be the most accessible and common types of funding for entrepreneurs. Here's how to determine the right option for your business. | Vernon Coleman closed a $4 million seed round backed by Alexis Ohanian in December 2020. Courtesy of Vernon Coleman This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Dialogue is 'not enough' to get more women into tech, says fintech CEO—here's what is | The tech industry has grappled with a diversity problem for years, with little progress to show for it. For one tech CEO, the only way forward for the industry is clear.
"Accountability needs to happen," Suneera Madhani, the co-fo... |
| The VC landscape is dire for Black women. 7 Black women who have raised millions in funding reveal their best fundraising advice. | The venture-capital space isn't the most welcoming environment for Black women.
As of 2020, only 93 Black women had raised $1 million or more in venture funds.
Black women who have achieved this feat gave advice for others looking to do the... |