Founders
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Black Business
Black Millennial Founders Are Now In The Offering Plate Economy
Dujon Smith, founder of My Block Skin My Block Skin Before 1921, the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, operated one…
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Tech
Venture 313 Powered With An Additional $6.4M Grant To Strengthen Support For Detroit Black Tech Founders – AfroTech
Detroit’s tech community is having a moment, and it’s only getting bigger. Venture 313 is a coalition of organizations —…
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Tech
Op-Ed: Founders, Your Friends Are Not Your Customers And Believing They Are Could Kill Your Startup – AfroTech
By Antonia Dean, Partner at Black Operator Ventures (Black Ops VC), an early stage VC firm Why Founders Who Build For Their…
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Tech
New Index Reveals The First 200 US-Based Black Women Founders To Raise $1M In VC Funding – AfroTech
A new index has been released that lists the first 200 Black women founders to break barriers by raising $1…
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Tech
Base10, A VC Firm Co-Founded By Adeyemi Ajao, Raises $850M To Fund Early Stage AI-Focused Founders – AfroTech
Base10 will continue investing in founders who are centering their companies around automation. Base10 is a San Francisco-based venture capital…
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Tech
US-Based Black Founders Have Raised $643M This Year, But Will The Trend Continue? – AfroTech
A new study shows growth in venture capital (VC) for Black founders in the U.S. — but is it really…
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Politics
Startup Runway Keeps Shrinking, Founders Pretend It’s Focus
The funding climate of the past two years has pushed early-stage startups into a familiar but increasingly tense position. The…
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Tech
Unconventional Ventures Announces Second Close Of Fund II To Support Diverse Founders Building Impact Tech Companies – AfroTech
Unconventional Ventures has announced the second close of its Fund II. The Nordic impact venture capital firm is led by a…
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Tech
Fifteen Percent Pledge, Victoria’s Secret Launch Virtual Accelerator Program To Fund And Provide Resources To BIPOC Founders – AfroTech
The work never stops for the Fifteen Percent Pledge. As AFROTECH™ previously told you, the Fifteen Percent Pledge is the…
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Tech
This Angel Investor Shares Where She Believes Founders Go Wrong When Seeking To Hit Their First Million Dollars In Revenue – AfroTech
During a CES 2026 panel titled “Getting to the First Million,” Lockie Andrews, angel investor and founder of Catalyst Consulting,…
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