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Collab Capital closes $50 million debut fund to back Black founders
A decade before investing outside of San Francisco and New York became trendy, entrepreneurs Jewel Burks, Justin Dawkins and Barry Givens were betting on Atlanta. Each experienced firsthand the biases that disproportionately hurts Black founders — while also being living proof of the wave of Black innovation and opportunity in their city. Last year, the…
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12 ‘flexible VCs’ who operate where equity meets revenue share
A dozen active investors who offer funding via revenue-based, compensation-based and blended-return streams.
Career Karma raises $10M to connect students to coding bootcamps
As edtech churns out more and more MasterClass copycats and coding bootcamps, it’s becoming glaringly obvious that students need better ways to navigate the crowded world of online learning. Career…
Google is providing cash awards to 76 startups through a racial equity initiative announced in June
Amid months of protest this summer, as more of the world began to awaken to the many ways that people of color are systemically discriminated against, a wide number of…
Partners at Sequoia, GGV, General Catalyst and Greylock join Valence’s VC initiative for Black founders
The new, Los Angeles-based online professional network for Black talent, Valence, has launched a new initiative called the Valence Funding Network to link Black entrepreneurs with top partners at firms…
Many in the tech industry saw the threat of the novel coronavirus early and reacted correctly. Fewer have seemed prepared for its aftereffects, like the outflow of talented employees from…
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Collab Capital launches with a $50 million target and a mission to help Black entrepreneurs
The three founders of Collab Capital, the newly launched Atlanta-based fund with a $50 million target and a mission to help Black entrepreneurs, are intimately aware of the struggles that Black founders face — because they are all Black founders themselves. Managing Partners Jewel Burks, Justin Dawkins, and Barry Givens have all founded companies, have backgrounds…
