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Welcoming the 2023 Google for Startups Black & Latino Founders Fund Recipients to Our Community

Welcoming the 2023 Google for Startups Black & Latino Founders Fund Recipients to Our Community

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 ...

Introducing Our Dope 2023 Summer Fellows

Introducing Our Dope 2023 Summer Fellows

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 ...

We Were Featured By HostingAdvice.com

We Were Featured By HostingAdvice.com

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.

Goodie Impact Story | From Unlikely Beginnings to Acquisition Success: Khiry Kemp’s Journey of Empowering Students and Building a Strong Network

Goodie Impact Story | From Unlikely Beginnings to Acquisition Success: Khiry Kemp’s Journey of Empowering Students and Building a Strong Network

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 ...

Founder Win: Nadine Joseph Celebrates her Whole Foods Staying Power and Recent CVS Launch as Founder and CEO of Peak + Valley

Founder Win: Nadine Joseph Celebrates her Whole Foods Staying Power and Recent CVS Launch as Founder and CEO of Peak + Valley

Things look good for Nadine Joseph (Lenovo Evolve Small, McKinsey & Company Next 1B Founder), CEO and Founder of Peak + Valley, an adaptogenic blend and herbal supplement company dedicated to supporting health and well-being. Nadine and her team recently launched a new capsuled collection exclusively in 2500 CVS stores nationwide. Not only that, but ...

Goodie Impact Story: Transformative Connections | Courtney Culmer and Brad MacAfee’s Dynamic Partnership

Goodie Impact Story: Transformative Connections | Courtney Culmer and Brad MacAfee’s Dynamic Partnership

When Brad MacAfee initially connected with Joey Womack, founder of Goodie Nation, he instantly felt like he was establishing a lifelong bond. Soon after being swept up into the Goodie Nation sphere of influence, Brad connected with Courtney Culmer (Google for Startups Black Founders Fund, Founder Gym), another Goodie Nation community member, over a transformative ...

Founder Win: Onramp CEO Lateesha Thomas Selected for the SHRM Labs Workforce Tech Accelerator to Continue Building Bridges for Non-Traditional Tech Talent to Enter the Industry

Founder Win: Onramp CEO Lateesha Thomas Selected for the SHRM Labs Workforce Tech Accelerator to Continue Building Bridges for Non-Traditional Tech Talent to Enter the Industry

Lateesha Thomas is the co-founder and CEO of Onramp, a workforce development platform that helps companies scale their technical hiring via apprenticeship programs. And recently they had a big-time win: acceptance into the SHRM Labs Workforce Tech Accelerator, a program focused on helping to scale the growth of startups focused on the workplace and future ...

Artificial Intelligence + Public Health: We Launched Our Leadership Development Program at the Morehouse Public Health Science Institute

Artificial Intelligence + Public Health: We Launched Our Leadership Development Program at the Morehouse Public Health Science Institute

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 ...