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When no one worried about IT spending, startups leaned into the bottom-up sales approach and driving PLG. But that was then, and this is now.

It is estimated that less than 1% of all VC dollars are raised by companies with founders openly within the LGBTQ+ community.

Since assuming office last year, Dickens has developed a reputation for his robust support of technology.

Women should no longer be thought of as a niche. In fact, they’re one of the most significant growth markets we’ve ever seen.

The higher you climb up the corporate ladder at Apple, the whiter it gets. That’s according to data analyzed by the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the union that’s helping retail workers

The new fund hopes to deploy the $150 million within three years, and has appointed Paul Judge as its managing partner.

The lack of funding and dearth of DEI data suggests that the venture community writ large is overlooking a vast amount of untapped potential.

The data set shows that in Q1 2023, Black founders raised an estimated $312 million out of the around $45 billion Crunchbase totaled for the quarter.

Rodriguez said he was inspired to launch the company as a way to help, specifically Black and brown artists, retain equity in their creative work.

No matter what the year brings, the percentage of funding to women has been stagnant for so long that to harp on about it feels rather fruitless.

Even the matter of branding a firm as a “friends and family” venture rather than “pre-seed” may attract founders from communities in which venture language isn’t common.

Billy seeks to digitize and streamline the construction compliance management process.

The tool comes at a perilous time for many women founders: last year, companies founded solely by women received just 1.9% of all capital allocated to US startups.

It's essential to consider this moment as an opportunity to start banking with some of the few Black-owned banks.

The social impact of Silicon Valley Bank was ‘unparalleled.’

More women in venture means that bias and strategic branding are increasingly more relevant for a larger fraction of check-writers.

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“We’ve come a long way, but we still have a long way to go," one investor told TechCrunch about the event.

“Diversity quota” has a stigma attached to it these days anyway, but could it at least motivate people to think critically?

“We’re going to be responsible for catalyzing a completely new generation to be more conscious of their environment; more conscious of how they spend and how they buy," Sandu said.