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Toolkit for Entrepreneurship

Resources for entrepreneurs.

Accelerators and Venture Funds for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Entrepreneurs

500 Startups

  • 500 Startups supports early-stage Black- and Latinx-owned startups in the US.

Backstage Capital

  • Backstage invests in startup founders who identify as a Woman, Person of Color, and/or LGBTQ.Includes an accelerator program.

Base Ventures

  • Base Ventures is owed to its founder and Managing Director, Erik Moore, one of the 25 Most Influential Black in Tech.

Black Angel Tech Fund

  • The Black Angel Tech Fund invests in Black-owned startups.

Cleveland Avenue

  • Cleveland Avenue is focused on funding restaurant, food tech and beverage companies. The founder of this investment firm are Don and Liz Thompson.

Connectivity Capital Partners

  • Connectivity Capital Partners "advocates for diversity in technology by supporting extraordinary startup founders regardless of their background."

Cross Culture Venture Capital

  • Cross Cultural Venture Capital focuses on investing in early-stage startups focusing on tech and consumer products.They invest in minority-owned startups.

Digitalundivided

  • This fund invests in Black- and Latinx-owned startups.

Diversecity Ventures

  • Diversecity Ventures invests in startups that not only have "socio-economic and environmental impact but those that strive to promote cultural, geographic and cultural diversity."

Dreamit Ventures

  • Dreamit Ventures in collaboration with Comcast Ventures aims to provide financial support and mentorship to minority-owned startups with ready-made products to help them scale through their Dreamit Access program.

EchoVC Partners

  • EchoVC Partners invests in early stage startups in both North American and sub-Saharan Africa.

Founders First Capital Partners

  • Founders First Capital Partners provides capital and support to startups owned by women, entrepreneurs from minority groups, and military veterans.

Harlem Capital Partners

  • Harlem Capital Partners is a firm venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage, minority-owned startups.

Humble Ventures

  • Humble Ventures invests in firms established by women and entrepreneurs belonging to minority groups.

KEC Ventures

  • KEC Ventures supports early-stage startups founded by entrepreneurs belonging to minority groups.

New Voices Fund

  • The $100 Million New Voices Fund directly invests in businesses owned by women of color entrepreneurs. The fund focuses on investments from start-ups/Seed to Series C rounds and primarily invests in three verticals: consumer, technology and media/entertainment.

Pipeline Angels

  • Pipeline Angels invests in women and non-binary femme social entrepreneurs

Precursor Ventures

  • Precursor Ventures "are committed to investing in founders who represent a wide variety of backgrounds in terms of gender, race, background," academic experience and life circumstances.

Presidential Innovation Fellows

  • This organization partners innovative startup founders with change-makers within the government to help them grow and scale for the better good of the country.

Reach Capital

  • Reach Capital aims to support minority-led startups striving to help underserved communities in the country, particularly in the field of education.

Valmo Ventures

  • Valmo Ventures is focused on creating, collaborating, and investing in companies, assets and efforts that add value to portfolio returns and add value to our society.

Organizations and Networking For Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Entrepreneurs

Ashoka

  • This nonprofit organization "identifies and supports the world's leading social entrepreneurs, learns from the patterns in their innovations, and mobilizes a global community that embraces these new frameworks to build an "everyone a changemaker world.""

TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs)

  • TiE is a nonprofit organization helping entrepreneurs at all stages of starting and running their business.

News and Articles about Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Entrepreneurs

The Plug

  • Online source for news and analysis on Black tech trends, founders, and innovators.

Black Enterprise

  • The magazine Black Enterprise has a page devoted to black entrepreneurs.

The Network Journal

  • The Network Journal is a quarterly print and online business magazine for Black entrepreneur, Black professionals and small business owners.