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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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AethexAI, A Full-Stack Voice AI Infrastructure Startup, Raises $3M In Pre-Seed Round To Level The Playing Field For Enterprises In Emerging Markets – AfroTech
Mariama D. Diallo and Ayooluwa Odemuyiwa followed a shared conviction to leave their careers to launch a startup. Diallo, who…
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Khaliah O. Guillory Left A VP Role At A Fortune 100 Financial Services Company To Focus On Building Her Own Tech Startup – AfroTech
Khaliah O. Guillory launched a company to encourage people to rest. It was during Guillory’s 14-year career at a Fortune…
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AI-Powered Health Startup Aster Has Been Acquired By Elation Health – AfroTech
Aster, a health tech startup founded by two sisters, has been acquired. The venture was launched after Dr. Lailah Kara-Newton,…
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AI-Powered Commercial Insurance Startup Announces The Largest Publicly Disclosed Series A Amount Raised By A Black Founder – AfroTech
Co-founder Dakotah Rice raised historic funding toward the top of the year. Rice is the CEO of Harper, an AI-powered…
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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
After Losing His Grandmother Josiah Faison Launched A Startup To Preserve Stories Of Loved Ones – AfroTech
Josiah Faison is leveraging tech to help people preserve their stories. The Maryland native originally planned for a career in…
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AI-Powered Grocery Startup Vori Raises $22M Series B Funding Round – AfroTech
Brandon Hill has raised millions in funding guided by the mission of ensuring “every supermarket in America autonomous,” he said…
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How Sensori, A Black Women-Owned Functional Non-Alcoholic Startup, Onboarded Poppi’s Former VP Of Sales Operations And Revenue Strategy – AfroTech
Happenstance led functional non-alcoholic beverage startup, Sensori, to pursue a strategic hire. Shanna Pearre (CEO), Darean Rhodes (COO), and Ashlyn…
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Crypto
Exclusive: Polymarket acquires the startup Brahma, in effort to scale its crypto and DeFi infrastructure
Polymarket, one of the two leading prediction market sites, built its platform on blockchain rails—a design that offers efficiency but…
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