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.
I recently sat down with Odie Gray to talk about his mission and vision to make tech more diverse, specifically the cybersecurity field. The South Chicago native expressed concern about underrepresented communities not understanding the wealth of opportunities available to them. He recalled growing up and only having three career options – sports, entertainment, or ...
We all know strength training is essential to any fitness routine, but it can be difficult to track progress and set goals. That's where Metric Mate (Techstars, Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs, ATDC), comes in. Metric Mate is a groundbreaking platform that makes strength training accessible to everyone by allowing users to turn any equipment ...
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 ...
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