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Founder Resources for Black Women Entrepreneurs

Ladies Who Launch

SUPPORT BLACK WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

  • The Black Founder List : US / Venture Backed

  • WeBuyBlack: WeBuyBlack.com is an online marketplace where customers may purchase everything they want and need provided by Black owned businesses.

  • The Black Wallet: The Black Wallet is a digital resource center for Black entrepreneurs and their businesses. A one-stop shop for your digital business needs.

  • Official Black Wall Street: Discover and shop black owned businesses

  • Support Black Owned: Support Black Owned (SBO) is a free Black and African American owned business directory and blog filled with thousands of 100% Black, Moorish, and African American owned businesses, spread all over the world.

  • Five Fifths: Black Business Lists, News & Interviews

RESOURCES COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING THE BLACK COMMUNITY

  • Amazon to donate $10 million to organizations that are working to bring about social justice and improve the lives of Black and African Americans

  • Apple launches $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative

  • Glossier Is Donating $1 Million to Black Lives Matter and Black-Owned Beauty Brands

  • YouTube will launch a multi-year $100 million fund dedicated to amplifying and developing the voices of Black creators and artists and their stories.

  • Microsoft pledged to donate $250,000 each to the Black Lives Matter Foundation, Equal Justice Initiative, Innocence Project, The Leadership Conference, Minnesota Freedom Fund, and NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund.

  • Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey commits to  #startsmall grants to benefit Black and Brown communities, support ex-offenders, and more

BLACK CAPITAL + FUNDING RESOURCES

  • VC firms that invested in black founders: Notes: data powered by Crunchbase; initial list only includes VC-backed companies, not all accelerator-backed companies

  • BLCK VC: Co-founded by Sydney Sykes, BLCK VC connects, engages, and empowers Black venture investors by providing a community built for and by other Black venture investors. 

  • Backstage Capital invests in underrepresented founders through funding and accelerator programs. 

  • Black Angel Tech Fund: Committed to investing in promising young Black talent and bridging the gap between Black entrepreneurs and investors. 

  • Black Women Raise: a platform and community designed to accelerate the ability of leading black female founders to raise growth capital, scale-up and create pathways for the women behind them. 

  • Digitalundivided: Dedicated to making entrepreneurship and innovation more inclusive by investing in Black and Latinx women-led startups.

  • Fearless Fund: Invests in WOC-led startups that are seeking pre-seed, seed level, and Series A financing. 

  • New Voices Fund: Created to empower women of color by helping startup founders from the ground up with dedicated training and support leading their companies to success.

  • Kapor Capital: Deeply committed to investing in diverse entrepreneurs with early-stage startups whose business success generates positive change in the world.

  • Vertical404 is an Atlanta-based Accelerator and Pre-Seed Venture Fund – providing the education, mentorship, network, and capital required for Black & Latinx entrepreneurs to lead successful startups.

BLACK ENTREPRENEUR ORGANIZATIONS + COMMUNITIES

  • BlackFounders is creating an ecosystem that stimulates tech entrepreneurship and fosters economic growth. They develop global programs that equip entrepreneurs, inspire innovation, and share resources. They host networking and educational events in cities across the USA.

  • The Black Girl Ventures Foundation is dedicated to offering comprehensive education and advisory services that outline a road map for the growth and success of minority and/or veteran women entrepreneurs. Their vision is to create a society where Black and Brown women founders have equitable access to social and financial capital to grow their businesses.

  • Code2040 is a national nonprofit that seeks to activate, connect, and mobilize the largest racial equity community in tech to dismantle the structural barriers that prevent the full participation and leadership of Black and Latinx technologists. Through events, trainings, early-career programs, and knowledge sharing, Code2040 equips Black and Latinx technologists and their allies with the tools, connections, and the care they need to advocate for and achieve racial equity in the tech industry.

  • NewME is an entrepreneurship education program, serving early stage business founders and their teams through mentorship, specialized curriculums, and capital investment. Their program enables founders to completely re-evaluate product, sales, and marketing strategies, prepare for investment pitches, and connect to a network of partners. As the first underrepresented founder focused program in the United States, NewMe has led founders to more than $47 MM in funding.

  • The Black upStart teaches aspiring Black entrepreneurs how to start a successful and profitable business through an intense, culturally-relevant popup school. Their learning experience prepares Black innovators to compete

  • Code Fever is based out of Miami, Florida and focuses on shifting the way Black communities engage and create value within the innovation sector. The organization brings resources, training, networks, funding, and inclusive policies to the Black community to build an asset and talent-filled space where innovation can thrive.

  • Opportunity Hub (OHUB) is an early stage investment and wealth creating platform to ensure that everyone, everywhere has early exposure to the tech, startup and venture ecosystem; access to in-demand technology education, training and talent placement; an onramp to startup entrepreneurship programming, resources and capital and vetted investment literacy and opportunities for multi-generational wealth creation with no reliance on pre-existing multi-generational wealth.

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