Black Founders Only Got 1% Of VC Funding In 2022–We Spoke To Tech Crunch’s Dominic-Madori Davis About The Concerning Disinvestment Trend

Black Founders Only Got 1% Of VC Funding In 2022–We Spoke To Tech Crunch’s Dominic-Madori Davis About The Concerning Disinvestment Trend

Since June 2022, Tech Crunch reporter Dominic-Madori Davis has been stirring up robust conversations around the abysmal state of diverse venture capital investment in minority-founded startups, particularly Black ones. In […] The post Black Founders Only Got 1% Of VC Funding In 2022–We Spoke To Tech Crunch’s Dominic-Madori Davis About The Concerning Disinvestment Trend appeared first on Essence.
This Black-Owned Startup Received Jay-Z’s Support—Now It’s Poised To Be The Next Unicorn

This Black-Owned Startup Received Jay-Z’s Support—Now It’s Poised To Be The Next Unicorn

Leave it to Jay-Z to spot emerging stars in music, sports and now…blockchain. The musician and prolific entrepreneur’s VC firm Marcy Venture Partners recently invested in Spatial Labs—an infrastructure company […] The post This Black-Owned Startup Received Jay-Z’s Support—Now It’s Poised To Be The Next Unicorn appeared first on Essence.