Rituals for Hypergrowth; Mental Health is Health 🎾; the GP-LP Matching tool; Queer 50.
A weekly newsletter for Black and Brown women highlighting entrepreneurship and venture capital in the tech ecosystem.
Welcome to Issue #54, For Colored Girls Who Tech, a weekly newsletter for Black and Brown women highlighting entrepreneurship and venture capital in the tech ecosystem. We are a community-centric newsletter so feel free to reach out if you’d like to partner with us or share stories, tips, or questions. If you enjoy our content we encourage you to like this post above and share it with your community!
Rent the Runway enters the $30 billion resale market. Facebook’s new Substack clone. Etsy buys Gen-Z resale app Depop for $1.6 billion. Flink, a German grocery delivery startup has raised $240 million six months after launching. Chamath Palihapitiya files for four new SPACs. Nigeria bans Twitter.
INSIGHTS
European Investment Fund Annual Report 2020
-EIF
The complete list of Unicorn Companies
-CB Insights
How the venture capital community can better support Black founders
-Anthony Oni / Quartz
Debut Sessions Live — Hacking your first round of funding
-Carmen Alfonso-Rico / Blossom Capital
Rituals for Hypergrowth: An inside look at how YouTube scaled
-Shishir Mehrotra / Coda
How developer platforms can triumph over the three most common product-led growth roadblocks
-Janelle Teng and Ethan Kurzweil / Bessemer Venture Partners
African Tech Ecosystems of the Future Rankings 2021/2022
-FDI Intelligence
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OPPORTUNITIES, FUNDING & COMPETITIONS
Le Crypto Fellowship by Frst & Fabric : 10 x €100k to create 10 crypto entrepreneurs “from scratch.”
VOTE! The 4th Annual Champion Awards by Female Founders Alliance recognizes people and organizations that champion underrepresented communities in their professional pursuits across a diverse set of backgrounds. Vote before June 29, 2021.
Apply for one of the ten $1,000 Black Dadpreneur's Day grants. Applications close June 17, 2021.
IBM Hyper Protect Accelerator is an investment-readiness and technical mentorship program, run in partnership with Village Capital and IBM. Apply by June 30, 2021.
The Stacy’s Rise Project™ supports small businesses through $10,000 funding, mentorship and community. Apply by July 9, 2021.
UPCOMING (VIRTUAL) EVENTS
London New Tech #59-an amazing line-up of startups who will be pitching their product on Airmeet, June 8, 2021.
Inside.com presents Meet Our Fund, Free Live Virtual Event. June 8 + 9, 2021.
The Core Pillars for Development in a Venture Role, June 9, 2021.
Venture Capital Funding Legal Discussion + Live Workshop by SoGal, June 10, 2021.
Success Talks Accelerate Your Career conference sponsored by BMO Capital Markets will provide invaluable advice for people looking to progress with their careers. June 15-16, 2021.
Mobile Gender Gap Report 2021: Virtual Launch by GSMA. June 17, 2021.
Next Gen Entrepreneurship, an event celebrating cooperative entrepreneurship and the next generation of cooperative businesses at scale. June 18, 2021.
BLCK VC is hosting "Be the Change" an event to memorialize the unjust deaths of Black Americans, celebrate the progress of Black activists and investors, and reflect on the state of the venture capital industry. June 25, 2021.
Sovereign Nature Initiative Hackathon Challenge 2021: Enabling nature's autonomous value inside city parks and public green spaces. SNI is a juried competition with 10,000€ cash awarded to the winning strategies of individual challenge rounds. Deadline June 18, 2021.
ON OUR RADAR
Tulsa Race Massacre is now an M.B.A. Case Study at Harvard.
Meet James and Peter Hemings, America's first black celebrity chefs.
How 50 years of suits shaped the way men think about their bodies.
U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism.
PEOPLE / ANNOUNCEMENTS
Fast Company’s second annual Queer 50 list of LGBTQ women and nonbinary innovators in business and tech.
Lolita and Josh Taub announced the launch of the GP-LP Matching tool, which will introduce underestimated GPs to LPs!
Google announced 30 startups from the U.K., France, Belgium, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands selected to receive awards from the $2 million Black Founders Fund.
Forbes 50 OVER 50-The New Golden Age.
Chipper Cash is Africa’s ‘most valuable startup’ after SVB-led $100M investment.
Ava Duvernay’s Array has partnered with Google to create a new $500,000 feature film grant available to up-and-coming creatives from historically underrepresented communities.
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