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Spill, Co-Founded By Ex-Twitter Employee Alphonzo ‘Phonz’ Terrell, To Cross $1M In Annualized Revenue
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Tariffs will hammer hardware, create consumer chaos, and could stifle the AI boom
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How Is Celebrity Merch Made? Find Out How Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and More Make Their Products
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The next big social app won’t look like TikTok. 12 investors dish on where they’re placing their bets in consumer tech.
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Pipe Continues International Expansion to Canada Through Partnership with Housecall Pro
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Era Raises $6M to Bring AI-Powered ‘Wealth-Care’ to Every American; Partners With Cerebras to Pioneer Next-Gen Financial Intelligence
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Exclusive: Fal, generative media platform for developers, raises $49 million Series B
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Read the pitch decks of 6 startups looking to disrupt dating apps and social networking that have raised millions
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LOST iN is signing creators to be the face of its brand. Here’s how it’s avoiding the BuzzFeed pitfall.
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RYFF UNITES INDUSTRY EXPERTS TO SHAPE AI ETHICS FOR IN-SCENE ADVERTISING
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SPILL Brings New Investors Into Its Inclusive Social Media Conversation
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David Oyelowo’s Mansa to Launch FAST Channel Celebrating Black Culture on Roku | Exclusive
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ELONEX AND RYFF ANNOUNCE IN-SCENE OUT-OF-HOME ADVERTISING PARTNERSHIP AT MAD//Fest
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11 VC firms funding the next phase of the creator economy, from AI-powered tools to e-commerce startups
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See the 14-page pitch deck Jukin Media vets used to raise $4 million to disrupt travel media
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Former Jukin Executives Acquire LOST iN Travel Publisher, Launch New Site
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AMAZON PRIME VIDEO’S STEVE COX APPOINTED CEO OF RYFF; SHIRLEY RICHTER HUGHES FROM R&CPMK TO LEAD SALES
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The Business Journal’s annual LA500 celebrates the most influential leaders and impactful executives in Los Angeles.
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AMC Theatres Strikes Distribution Deal With Mansa, A Free Streaming Outlet Focused On Black Culture Whose Co-Founders Include David Oyelowo
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10 Black-Owned Startups To Watch (Outside Silicon Valley) According To Investors
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Mahmee Collaborates With Health Net to Provide Expecting and New Parents With Additional Doula and Wraparound Maternity Support
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Ava DuVernay’s Array Releasing Partners With Mansa Streaming Service To Distribute Select Film And TV Titles
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A new wave of social-networking startups has emerged. Here are 3 ways they are making money while scaling.
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7 prominent VCs investing in social startups explain where they’re placing their bets amid a tough market for consumer apps
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58 Black investors changing the venture capital industry with firms that fund diverse startup founders
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David Oyelowo’s Mansa to Launch FAST Channel Celebrating Black Culture on Roku
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Providence Saint John’s Health Center and Mahmee Partner to Expand Breastfeeding Services and Enhance Maternal Health Care
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US Spotlight: Top 50 fintech companies transforming business finance & lending in 2023
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Tech entrepreneur from Baltimore started the nation’s largest Black-owned fintech platform, a peer-to-peer microlender
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30 Under 30 2024: Meet The Young Artists And Designers Reimagining How We See The World
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Shekel Mobility, a B2B marketplace for auto dealers in Africa, raises $7M led by Ventures Platform and MaC VC
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Prolific VC firm MaC Venture Capital shares its investment thesis for Africa
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He was laid off by Elon Musk. Within hours, he had a plan to outdo Twitter
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Made In Kenya: Local venture helping Kenyans digitise their medical records
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The 14 most promising creator economy startups of 2023, according to top VCs and investors
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A hotspot for fintech investing is the wonky world of regulation. Here are 12 compliance startups set to take off.
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Athlete Investing Marketplace PredictionStrike Raises $10 Million Series A Round
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Young startups are feeling the pinch as seed funding is no longer the rare bright spot in a VC winter
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The Exploding World of Micromobility-First Freight With Finmile CEO Rich Pleeth
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54 up-and-coming fintechs transforming Wall Street and the way consumers bank, trade, invest, and pay, according to 34 top investors
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Voiceflow, a platform for building conversational AI experiences, raises $15M
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Twitter alternative Spill aims to recreate the magic of Black Twitter in a safe space
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EXPONENTIAL EXCHANGE CLOSES $7.4M SEED ROUND TO FUND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF RISK MITIGATION TOOLS FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE ECOSYSTEM
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I’m cofounder of a Black-owned certified B-Corp tech startup. Here are the 3 most important lessons I learned
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Black-Owned Social Platform Spill Becomes Twitter’s Rival In Real Time As Users Migrate And Help It Reach No. 1 In The App Store
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Spill, Twitter’s New Rival, Just Launched And Already Has Its Eyes On Becoming The First Unicorn Black-Owned Social Platform
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DwellWell Launches the First Conversational AI Experience for Homebuyers.
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AMC Theatres Strikes Distribution Deal With Mansa, A Free Streaming Outlet Focused On Black Culture Whose Co-Founders Include David Oyelowo.
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Mobility Fintech startup, Shekel Mobility, raises $1.95M in pre-seed funding.
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Real Estate Tech Company DwellWell Solves Every Homebuyer Need in One Place.
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Founded by actors, Mansa brings its free streaming service for global Black culture out of stealth.
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Mahmee Launches an All-inclusive Care Membership and Announces New Additions to Company Leadership During Black Maternal Health Week.
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The Insider Series | Navigating Nigeria’s Proptech Space: Opportunities & Challenges.
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Virtual Product Placement Can Help Hollywood’s and Advertisers’ Sustainability Problem.
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March Madness Limited Edition Collectors Sneakers That Drake And Justin Bieber Shop From Culture Kings Pop-Up At Caesars Palace Las Vegas.
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Macro Announces $90 Million Minority Investment Led By BlackRock Alternatives.
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Nick Green, Co-Founder & CEO, Thrive Market & Melissa Repko, Retail & Consumer Reporter, CNBC.
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BlocPower Announces $150 Million Financing, is Honored by Vice President Harris, Unveils Corporate Rebrand.
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Serena Ventures backs SoLo Funds as finance platform tops 1M registered users.
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How online grocer Thrive Market is thriving—with no plans to ever open a brick-and-mortar store.
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Thrive Market: Entrepreneurial Lessons In Becoming One Of America’s Best Startup Employers | Forbes.
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A NEW SOLUTION FOR HEDGING USED VEHICLE PRICE EXPOSURE AMID INCREASING VOLATILITY.
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Exponential Exchange Raises Pre-Seed Funding to Develop Asset Risk-Mitigation Tools.
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Three months ago, he was laid off from Twitter. Now, his competing app Spill is funded.
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BIPOC CREATORS TO LAUNCH TWITTER ALTERNATIVE ‘SPILL’ FOR BLACK, OVERLOOKED ‘CULTURE DRIVERS’.
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Twitter is a mess, so former employees are creating Spill as an alternative.
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HOW FORMER TWITTER WORKERS WILL CHALLENGE ELON MUSK WITH A RIVAL APP CALLED SPILL.
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New money from old shows: why TV is betting big on ‘virtual product placement’.
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How to Use the Recurring Revenue Financing to Accelerate Growth with Michal Cieplinski, Pipe
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Zevvy Announces Its Official Launch Alongside $5.4M in Seed Funding to Offer a D2C Consumer Financing Platform for Electric Vehicles
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Mayor Adams, BlocPower Announce Significant Expansion of Precision Employment Initiative to Provide Green Jobs to New Yorkers Most Impacted by Gun Violence
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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures
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Spleet has raised $2.6million to scale its residential rent focused products.
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Nigerian proptech Spleet gets $2.6M led by MaC VC to scale its property management products
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Meet Pipe, The $2 Billion Start-Up That Created A New Asset Class To Help Growing Businesses Raise Cash
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Sports Stock Market App PredictionStrike Raises $3 Million Seed Round Led by MaC Venture Capital
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Sean Moran Named Executive Chairman of Virtual Product Placement Company Ryff
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Doubling Fund I to Raise a $203M Fund II, What Makes a Stellar Founder, and Why a Market Downturn is a Great Time to Invest in Startups, with Marlon Nichols of MaC Venture Capital
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Cracking the real world ‘cocktail party problem’ in voice AI with Ken Sutton and Hamid Nawab, Yobe
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How Spleet became a fintech solution for tenants and landlords in Africa
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Backed by Iyin Aboyeji’s Future Africa, Spleet raises $625k in pre-seed round to build rent financing and tenant verification solutions for Africans
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AMP Global Partners With MaC Venture Capital Raising $5.6 Million To Expand Its Blockchain-Based Video Platform
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Black-Owned Beauty And Tech Company Mayvenn Raises $40 Million In Series C Funding Round; Plans To Use Capital To Expand Partnership With Walmart
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Former STX President Sophie Watts Joins Board of Ad Tech Firm Ryff (Exclusive)
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Kenyan HealthTech AfyaRekod launches Universal Patient Portal for worldwide health data mobility management
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MaC Venture Capital Announces $203M Fund II After Strong Fund I Performance
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Entrepreneur and Early Childhood Education Advocate Named EdTech CEO of the Year
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Identity Verification API Eases Fraud Concerns in Africa’s Digital Space
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Identitypass, an identity verification API for Africa, raises $2.8M seed funding
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Blockchain entertainment company, AMP Global, raises $5.6 million to expand its watch-to-earn offering
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Here’s the startup playbook to survive lean times, a formula that underrepresented founders have long been forced to learn but have thrived while using it
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Fixing a broken system – Mahmee CEO Melissa Hanna on patient-centric maternal care | E1464
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The 2022 CNBC Disruptor 50 list: Meet the next generation of Silicon Valley
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The United States is in a maternal health crisis, Goldman Sachs wants to change that
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The Advent Of Voice: Why CMOs Should Look To Voice AI As The Future Of Advertising
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Everywhere Apparel Announces New B2B Payment Platform for Recycled Wholesale Apparel
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Big Cabal Media, parent company of TechCabal and Zikoko, raises $2.3M seed funding
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Ryff Partners with Triple-B Media for Brand Integration in 10,000 Hours of TV Content
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How Big Cabal Media became one of the fastest-growing news outlets in Africa
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LaSalle Investment Management Selects Technology Provider RealBlocks for $77B Global Business
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GE & Afya Rekod simplify access to medical records to enhance patient experience in Africa
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Pipe expands into media and entertainment financing with its acquisition of Purely Capital
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Episode 82: Enabling AI-Powered AR Navigation For Driving with Chen-Ping Yu
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No plastic clamshells here: Zero Grocery aims to eliminate unnecessary plastic in grocery delivery
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A Black woman’s guide to venture-capital fundraising: How to pitch investors, build a support network, and raise millions.
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Afya Rekod, Kenyan startup closes its seed round at $2 million to scale across Africa
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Afya Rekod, Kenyan startup closes its seed round at $2 million to scale across Africa
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The most powerful offline messaging applications for Android phones 2022
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Sote Raises $4 Million Seed Extension Round to expand its solution offering into Fintech
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Sote, An African Supply Chain Company, Raises $4M In A Seed Extension Round
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On The Hunt For New Asset Classes – Recurring Revenue, Co-Working, Carbon, Crypto & More
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StoreCash Introduces App that Brings Financial Literacy to Minority Communities and Teens
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StoreCash Introduces App that Brings Financial Literacy to Minority Communities and Teens
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Wonderschool Raises $25 Million To Tackle Childcare Challenges With Investment From Goldman Sachs As Part Of Its One Million Black Women Initiative
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UNESCO AI Ethics Impacting 2022 Global Startups And Humanity’s Billions
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Phiar Technologies Works with Qualcomm to Transform Automotive Cockpits with Spatial AI-powered AR HUD Navigation to Reduce Driver Cognitive Load
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Rares Is ‘Investing In Culture’ And Giving Access To Sneaker Share IPOs On Its New Trading Platform
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Rocket Companies scoops up Truebill for nearly $1.3 billion in major fintech play
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The 20 booming DTC companies to bet your career on in 2022, from Vuori to Harry’s
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Jeff Bezos climate fund gives millions to energy efficiency start-up BlocPower
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New Banking App Gives Users 15% Cashback At Major Retailers And Helps Build Financial Wealth Amongst Low-income Communities
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Black Entrepreneur Launches Banking App To Help Teens Build Financial Futures With 15% Cashback Program
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SoLo Funds Becomes The Only Black-Owned Fintech Startup To Acquire B Corp Certification
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Eugenio Derbez’s 3Pas Studios Teams With Encantos To Develop Kids Entertainment Content
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Habitat for Humanity and United Way Partner with SoLo Funds’ New Initiative SoLo Causes: ‘Make an Impact’
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Venture capitalist Marlon Nichols invests in diverse, visionary founders
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VP Kamala Harris tours JFK Airport amid climate initiatives to reduce greenhouse gases
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VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDING FOR BLACK FOUNDERS REACHES RECORD HIGH—CAN THE MOMENTUM LAST?
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Financial institutions that leverage underserved communities should provide value to those communities
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Youth-Focused Digital Platform FaZe Clan Inks $1 Billion SPAC Deal to Go Public
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Black Entrepreneur Daricus Releford’s Fintech Startup StoreCash Is Taking the Teen and Young Adult Banking Industry by Storm
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Alternative financing startup Pipe snaps up Stripe and HubSpot execs, expands to UK
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Gerome Sapp’s Sneaker Investment App Rares Secures $4M In Seed Funding Round
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Michael B. Jordan, Serena Ventures, MaC Venture Capital Partner To Give HBCU-Bred Founders A Chance To Win $1M
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Black Entrepreneur Daricus Releford’s Fintech Startup StoreCash Is Taking the Teen and Young Adult Banking Industry by Storm
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Innovators List 2021: 15 Hollywood Disrupters, From Netflix’s Scott Stuber to Chloé Zhao
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Sneaker Investment App Rares CEO on $4M Fundraise, Growing the Platform
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Alternative financing startup Pipe snaps up Stripe and HubSpot execs, expands to UK
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Mayor de Blasio Launches $37 Million Violence Intervention Employment Program
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To commercialize, voice tech must first solve its ‘cocktail party problem’
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PredictionStrike Raises $1.7 Million In Capital And Launches New Mobile App
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Athlete-Turned-Techpreneur Gerome Sapp’s $1.8M Yeezy Prototype Sneaker Purchase Is Giving Back To The Culture
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Gerome Sapp Is Using His Status as a Former NFL Player to Invest in Sneakers
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BK Climate Tech Startup One of 15 Awarded a Spot in Nationwide Apple Accelerator
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McDonald’s links with esports giant FaZe Clan to spotlight diversity in gaming
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FinTech Female Fridays: Meet VP, Marketing & Communications, Yasmin Moaven
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Canadian Conversational AI Design Tool Voiceflow Raises $20 Million In Series A
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There are many misconceptions about Africa; Platform Capital’s Africa Walk is changing that
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Funding To Black Startup Founders Quadrupled In Past Year, But Remains Elusive
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VNSNY CHOICE And Arine Address Member Health Needs With Technology-Enabled Comprehensive Approach During COVID-19 Pandemic
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Arine partners with the California Right Meds Collaborative, a pharmacist-provider program of the USC School of Pharmacy
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Early learning hub created with foundation’s $100K grant to help providers share services
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The British CEO of Pipe, a startup that’s reached a $2 billion valuation in less than a year, says he’s locked out of the US because of a crisis-level backlog in immigration processing
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Something Ventured Part 2: It’s ‘Up And To The Right’ For Sote Founders And Their African Logistics Platform
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How One Company Combats Predatory Loans And The Never Ending Cycle Of Debt For Black Women
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Black-Owned Media Collective Launches to Help Brands Meet New Ad Commitments
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Firefly Supercharges Out-of-Home Advertising Network Through Acquisition of Curb Taxi Media
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18 investors and VC firms funding innovative startups in the creator economy and influencer industry
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$JOBS No Experience Necessary: New Koch Collaboration with Catalyte Removes Barriers to Transformative Careers
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FOOD & WINE Names the 25 People, Products, and Movements Transforming the Way We Eat and Drink
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Sneak pic: A close-up of new ‘anti-selfie’ Poparazzi app and the future of digital photo-sharing
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How The Vision Of This Female Founder Has Created Unrivaled Access For Black Voices In Media
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Business leaders can fuel the next generation of Black innovators and entrepreneurs. Here’s what it will take
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Accelerating innovation: transforming voice-based products for the future
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Encantos’ Learning App Will Be Powered by a Network of Creative Educator-Authors
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Black, Latinx and female entrepreneurs are still ignored by most venture capitalists
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How majority Black VC firm MaC Venture Capital raised a $110 million fund: A founding managing partner outlines the firm’s journey
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MaC Venture Capital Raises Its First Fund Of $110M To Invest In Seed-Stage Companies
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MaC Venture Capital Raises a $110M Inaugural Fund to Invest in Visionary Tech Leaders Building the Future
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Majority Black venture capital firm announces $110 million fund to invest in entrepreneurs of color
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Pipe, which aims to be the ‘Nasdaq for revenue,’ raises more money at a $2B valuation
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MaC Venture Capital Raises a $110M Inaugural Fund to Invest in Founders Building the Future We Want to See
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Black Venture Capitalists Look to Even the Playing Field With Diverse Investors
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Marlon Nichols will discuss how to secure seed funding at TechCrunch Early Stage 2021
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10 VCs say interactivity, regulation and independent creators will reshape digital media in 2021
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‘Diversity is an Interesting Thing’: MaC Venture Capital’s Marlon Nichols on ‘Diversity Theater’ and What He’ll Do with New Funds
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Goldman Sachs Seeks to Help Black and LatinX Founders Accelerate their Growth
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Marlon Nichols Joined other leading VCs as TechCrunch Battlefield Judge
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