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, ...
Courtney Caldwell is a woman that climbs mountains. Literally. Recently, she and her husband, Dr. Tye Caldwell, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. And when asked if she’d do it again, she smiled and said, “Absolutely.” "Climbing Kilimanjaro was the hardest thing I've ever done physically. While climbing up the mountain, you have to talk to yourself and ...
February 04, 2023 was a big day for Tiffini Gatlin and her company, Latched + Hooked Beauty. Not only did she launch a product on QVC, the TV shopping network that reaches 380 million households in the US and seven other countries. But she was the first Black-owned faux hair designer to accomplish this. And ...
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. ...
Osinachi Ukomadu is shaking up the world of e-commerce and making the impossible, possible. As the founder and CEO of Heroshe, he's leading the charge to bridge the gap between Africa and the US, breaking down borders and creating new opportunities for people on both sides of the ocean. Through Heroshe's innovative cross-border e-commerce platform, ...
After spending 10 years in non-profit operations and fundraising, Melissa Brogdon (Google for Startups Black Founders Fund II, Collab Studio Prep School, Square One Startup School) knew she could help her co-founder disrupt the legal service space with their company, FourthParty. Today, Fourth Party equips freelancers in the law field with the resources they need ...
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. ...
Emily Brown (Google for Startups Black Founders Fund III), the founder of Free From Market, is a force to be reckoned with. She is the passionate and dedicated founder of Free From Market, a company with a vision to bring inclusive access to healthy food and support to individuals with chronic conditions. And Brown and ...
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.
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