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 ...
These diverse founders joined Goodie Nation in January 2023 from accelerators like Techstars, Black Girls Ventures, All Raise Seed Bootcamp, Visible Hands, and Google's Women's Accelerator. Be sure to use the Warm Intro link to help them with connections to capital, customers, or press.
VC’s often talk about how, at the earliest stages, they invest in founders and not companies. Well, we’re not VC’s at Goodie Nation, but this is the story of what happens when good founder traits meet opportunity. Early last September, I interviewed Norma Padron from EmpiricaLab for a spot in our program. EmpiricaLab is a ...
Typically, the final editions of All Founders Need Therapy of the year are heavy and the 2022 edition was no different. And the unfortunate passing of Stephen "tWitch" Boss just a short time prior brought up many emotions to the founders in attendance. Note: to protect the integrity of All Founders Need Therapy and to ...
Continuing in our mission to close the Relationship Gap, I'm thrilled to announce Goodie Nation is partnering with New York City-based Company Ventures to support the diverse-led startups in their Boost founder fellowship program. Boost is a 4-month pre-accelerator designed to help catalyze the success of underrepresented tech founders in NYC. Through this collaboration, Boost ...
