The United States of America aspires to be the greatest country in the world for freedom, opportunity and economic mobility - an economically just country. For us entrepreneurs, the possibility of seeing our dreams turn into reality is enough for us to make significant personal and professional sacrifices, as we know those sacrifices mean we’ll ...
At the Essence Festival of Culture in 2023, three black women were welcomed into a new cohort of visionary entrepreneurs through the New Voices $150,000 POWER Pitch sponsored by the Entergy Charitable Foundation. While the competition was fierce, Brooke Hill, Co-Founder & CEO of Swella Beauty, a luxury braiding experience that sources quality braiders in ...
In addition to welcoming the latest Google for Startups Black & Latino Founders Funds cohort into our community, we added more dope tech and CPG startup founders to our community in July. They are working on interesting things in the pet, safety, social impact, and more spaces. And they are a geographically diverse group representing ...
At Goodie Nation, our foundational belief is that we (humans) have everything needed to create the change we seek but we (humans) are inefficient at making the change happen. And the change we’re creating at Goodie Nation is all about relationships that matter for founders in the innovation economy. That’s why I’m super excited to ...
Deep in the coal mines of the 19th century, miners would bring canaries with them as an early warning system for toxic gases. Any sign of distress from the canary and the miners took off for the surface. These small birds were the first line of defense against disaster, alerting miners to the presence of ...
The good news keeps coming as, today, we officially welcome the 46 recipients of the 2023 Google for Startups Black and Latino Founders Funds into the Goodie Nation community. These founders are highly energetic, excellent communicators, and domain experts. Many are second and third-time founders and a few have exits under their belt. The collective ...
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.
Khiry Kemp (Google For Startups Black Founders Fund) recently celebrated the acquisition of his company, Oppti. Thanks to the relationships he has developed within Goodie Nation and the candid conversations that have resulted from these connections, the process went smoothly. However, the Brooklyn native never thought he would be in a position to celebrate a ...
She never saw the nomination coming-- which makes the award for 2023 Top 25 Women of Influence that much sweeter for joni Co-Founder and CEO Linda Biggs. “It was one of our employees that I had also worked with before in another organization who nominated me, primarily for the work that we're doing at joni ...
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