I'm super excited to welcome the newest members of the Goodie Nation community to our team - the Summer 2023 Fellows. This crop of dope people will be supporting startups at the pre-seed and seed stage, building communities in the US as well as across the world, and focusing on tech storytelling. They have previous ...
Tamay Shannon, our Social Media Manager, got a chance to sit down with Jordan Sprogis from HostingAdvice.com, the authority on web hosting, last month to talk about how we started as well as how we're supporting entrepreneurs. Read the full article on their website here.
In honor of Black Music Month, we've curated the list of music and music-adjacent startups by dope Black founders in the Goodie Nation community. Enjoy. Here’s How You Can Help Them Today: One Good Intro Scroll down the list of founders below to find the startups you’d like to connect to a funder, sponsor, etc. ...
The Goodie Nation community came together to help develop students in Morehouse's Public Health Science Institute Project Imhotep program as leaders and innovators at the intersection of public health and artificial intelligence. Here's what we did over three days: Day 1: Entrepreneur Panel + Life Purpose Workshop Through the power of Zoom, the students heard ...
We're excited to announced that Emory University Goizueta Business School students in partnership with the Philanthropy Lab and the Center for Civic Innovation (CCI) have awarded us a grant to address inequity in the Atlanta area! This grant will allow us to extend our Atlanta Community Builder Fellowship another 12 months, and keep our community ...
The ranks of Goodie Nation grew again in March as we added another stellar group of dope tech and CPG startup founders to our community. They are working on interesting things in the food, health, creator economy, future of work, and more spaces. The majority come to us through our partnership with Company Ventures to ...
Years from now, we may look back at last month as an inflection point for Black tech around the world. Two big things happened. First, Tech Equity Collective, a Google initiative, announced the recipients of the inaugural Tech Equity Collective Impact Fund for organizations supporting Black software engineers and developers. Second, Google for Startups has, ...
February 2023 marked another period where we added another group of dope founders to our community in addition to the Lenovo Evolve Small award recipients and a few others that will be announced soon. They come to us from accelerators like Techstars and Fast Forward and expand our presence in NYC, the DMV, and Denver. ...
At Goodie Nation, we often talk about being "intentionally good" - the act of consistently making an extra effort to support diverse founders and social entrepreneurs with capital, customers, advice, and storytelling. And to create an "intentionally good" culture, one should spend one hour doing one of these things per month for six straight months. ...
Today marks an inflection point for Goodie Nation as we welcome the 30 recipients of the 2023 Lenovo Evolve Small Grant into our Intentionally Good community. But these companies are not the tech startups we normally support, they represent some of the highest-potential diverse-led CPG brands and Brick-and-Mortar companies across the US and Canada. Each ...
