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Entrepreneurs and Innovators of Color Face An ‘Existential’ Threat

by Lori IoannouAugust 21, 2023August 21, 2023

A New $50M Fund in Baltimore Launches into a National Political Storm A leading Black venture capitalist, Luke Cooper of Baltimore-based Latimer Ventures, is busy raising a $50 million venture fund focused on investing in Black- and Hispanic-owned software-as-a-service startups. A few years ago, this would have been seen as an important venture, one of […]

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Under Development: A $100M Fund of Funds For Venture Capitalists Of Color

by Elizabeth MacBrideOctober 21, 2020April 6, 2023

In 2008, one of Silicon Valley’s most famous venture capitalists, John Doerr, said that the most successful entrepreneurs “all seem to be white male nerds who’ve dropped out of Harvard or Stanford and they absolutely have no social life. So when I see that pattern coming in, it was very easy to decide to invest.” […]

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