The marketplace 100; Setting up an SPV for angels; Proudly for melanated babies!
A weekly newsletter for Black and Brown women (and our allies) highlighting entrepreneurship and venture capital in the tech ecosystem.
Welcome to Issue #88 of For Colored Girls Who Tech, a weekly newsletter for Black and Brown women (and our allies) highlighting entrepreneurship and venture capital in the tech ecosystem. 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!
REPORTS & INSIGHTS
The Marketplace 100: 2022
-Olivia Moore, Brandon Barros / a16z
Scaling from $1 to $10 million ARR: Bessemer Growth’s early-stage playbook on how to make effective scaling decisions to become a strong Series B+ company
-Bessemer Venture Partners
A great disruption is coming for venture capital
-Leslie Feinzaig / FastCompany
Founder Insights: Setting up an SPV for angels
-Jeremy Luzinda
The Wisdom List: Leif Abraham
-The Generalist
OPPORTUNITIES, FUNDING & COMPETITIONS
Virtual Acceleration Bootcamp by Seedstars and Microsoft Africa! If you are interested in scaling and growing as a startup, don’t miss this opportunity, you will get access to startup scaling workshops, mentorship, productivity, and developer tools. Applications close tonight, April 17, 2022.
Calling all LGBTQ+ tech leaders in the UK 🏳️🌈. Applications open for UK LGBTQ+ Tech Mission to the USA, June 20 – 24, 2022. Visiting Austin, Houston and San Francisco, the mission is a great opportunity to engage with business and community leaders, US tech companies, and venture capital. Closes April 18, 2022.
BetaRaise programme-Ghanaian startups are invited to apply for the BetaRaise programme, designed to help first-time founders go from launching a beta product to their first pre-seed investment round in the fastest possible time. The first cohort is focused on ventures in urban food systems, mass-market distribution, green energy and e-mobility, gig economy, and fintech. Closes April 24, 2022.
Feed the Future’s EatSafe program in partnership with the SUN Business Network (SBN) and the Innovative Food System Portal is looking for entrepreneurs, students, researchers and other innovators in Nigeria and Ethiopia who are passionate about food safety to participate in the EatSafe Innovation Challenge! Apply by April 30, 2022.
UPCOMING (VIRTUAL) EVENTS
Global People (Netherlands) is organizing Diversity Dinner 2022, which aims to bring students & young professionals from culturally diverse backgrounds in touch with leading employers. Sign-up by April 18, 2022.
Westminster Media Forum "Next steps for funding in the creative industries" conference, April 19, 2022.
Launch House Reverse Demo Day. Join us as ~10 investors pitch Launch House (and other) founders on why they should take their money. Founders and Investors wanting to pitch should RSVP. April 20, 2022. `
500 LatAm: Batch 15 Demo Day. 500 Global invests in Spanish-speaking Latin American companies through 500 LATAM's investment program Somos Lucha. Get to know 10 companies of the recent Somos Lucha Batch 15 program, April 21, 2022.
Badhouse Pitch+Learn-12th edition. Featuring 4 pre-selected pre-seed startups. The founders give an in-depth 6-min pitch in front of guest investors (typically early-stage VCs). April 21, 2022.
Dream Big, Lead Boldly a free one-day virtual workshop focused on supporting the career aspirations of Black college students and young professionals, with a special emphasis on illuminating MBA career pathways. Register by April 22, 2022.
AfricArena West Africa Summit. A 2-day conference that will feature pitches from 20+ startups operating in West Africa between Seed stage and Growth stage. In Dakar, Senegal, April 26-27, 2022.
The Women’s Venture Capital Summit is a dynamic, two-day conference designed to forge valuable relationships between senior-level women in venture capital. May 5-6, 2022.
ON OUR RADAR
We’ve Never Seen a Carbon-Removal Plan Like This Before.
Flutterwave: The African Unicorn Built On Quicksand.
Mushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50 ‘words’, scientist claims.
PEOPLE / ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Midas List: The World’s Best Venture Capital Investors In 2022.
General Mills Invests $15 Million in Fearless Fund and Supply Change Capital.
Alison Rosenthal, Managing Partner of Leadout Capital raises $57.7M for its second fund to invest in “resilient” founders.
Elon Musk Launches $43 Billion Hostile Takeover Bid for Twitter.
Frontier Fund, a $925 million "advance market commitment" (AMC) set up by software firm Stripe to invest in carbon removal offsets — along with funding from Alphabet, Shopify, Meta and McKinsey, to start.
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