The Makings of a Crypto Holy War; Women Entrepreneurs 4 Good; New Investor Voices.
A weekly newsletter for Black and Brown women (and our allies) highlighting entrepreneurship and venture capital in the tech ecosystem.
Welcome to Issue #86 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 state of diversity in US private equity
-McKinsey
The New Creator Economy: A Guide to Web3 Creator Platforms
-Speedinvest
Jack Dorsey, Marc Andreessen and the Makings of a Crypto Holy War
-Joel Stein / The Information
The VC Guide to Mergers & Acquisitions
-Notion Capital
2021 Study Of Gender Diversity On Private Company Boards
-Crunchbase
How to make a teaser trailer for your startup pitch
-Andrew Gershfeld / TechCrunch
Annual State of the European FoodTech Ecosystem
-DigitalFoodLab
OPPORTUNITIES, FUNDING & COMPETITIONS
Visible Hands brings together its next cohort of U.S.-based entrepreneurs to support them in obtaining pre-seed funding, validating business ideas, and building transformational tech companies. Selected founders will each receive an initial investment of $25,000 + the opportunity for an additional $150,000 investment at the end of the accelerator. Apply by April 5, 2022.
Talent 4 Startups is a vocational program developed by Digital Africa and Make-IT. The program aims to meet the skills’ needs expressed by the continent’s startups by training young people, who will then be matched with startups seeking local talent. For its initial deployment, 280 scholarships will be awarded. Apply Now.
WFP Innovation Challenge 2022. Do you have a game-changing idea to improve sustainable food systems? Enter to receive up to $100,000 in equity-free funding and mentorship. Deadline April 6, 2022.
Nestlé R&D Accelerator. Partner with Nestlé for disruptive food & beverage innovations. Accelerator projects give teams six months to define and solve a problem and also test the market-solution fit. Apply by April 8, 2022.
Africa No Filter Support Competition. The latest Media grants of $10-25K are aimed exclusively at women storytellers, female-owned media organisations, and outlets. Apply by April 11, 2022.
Google for Startups Accelerator: Climate Change is a 10-week digital accelerator program for Seed to Series A technology startups based in North America. Apply now.
Shine Award will grant 4 women entrepreneurs a prize between 8 000€ and 12 0000€. This award is for women leading responsible projects (social or environmental). 2 grants of 8 000€ for solo-entrepreneurs and 2 grants of 12 000€ for CEO’s. A bonus for mompreneurs. Apply by April 13, 2022.
Moove Lab-Batch #9 BMW Group. The mobility & autotech focused startup accelerator just launched its call for projets. Apply by April 15, 2022.
The 2022 TTI Global Impact Awards are finally here! A celebration of entrepreneurs who are building a new paradigm for our planet. The 10 finalists in each TTI award category will be announced during the World Economic Forum in Davos. Learn more + apply with your startup or nominate a startup. Closes April 22, 2022.
UPCOMING (VIRTUAL) EVENTS
New Investor Voices: How Emerging Fund Managers Are Diversifying Capital, panel of the 41st Annual SEC Small Business Forum, April 6, 2022.
Nia Africa Demo Day 2. Nia is a unique investment engine powering impactful and exceptional business growth across Africa. April 6, 2022.
The Women Entrepreneurship for Africa Acceleration Programme Demo Day. Meet the most promising women-led startups that are contributing to job creation in Sub-Saharan Africa. April 7, 2022.
The Vegan Woman Summit Los Angeles, April 8, 2022.
MIT Sloan Africa Innovate Conference brings together top leaders, entrepreneurs and change agents from across Africa and the diaspora. April 9, 2022
Future Africa: Invest In the Future with Sebastian Mallaby-How to identify and invest in the best startups, April 12, 2022.
Online fireside chat: Scaling your business from $0 to $100 Million, hosted by Stripe and Bessemer Venture Partners, April 12, 2022.
Women's Health Innovation Summit Europe. Showcasing innovation, fuelling investment, and driving partnerships across Europe and Israel to improve the outcomes, access, and quality of healthcare for women. April 25-27, 2022.
Earlybird x Female Founders: Everything about how to own the conversation with potential investors, April 27, 2022.
ON OUR RADAR
Switching To Plant-Based Twice A Week Equivalent To Planting 13.88 Billion Trees.
It’s Easy to Blame Mental Health Issues on Tech. But Is It Fair?
Is a ‘recharge break’ the key to your employees’ happiness?
Tofurky Won Its Free-Speech Lawsuit to Call Its Vegan Meats “Burgers” and “Sausages”
PEOPLE / ANNOUNCEMENTS
Suneera Madhani, CEO of Stax, has built fintech’s latest unicorn. The woman led company reached unicorn status after a $245 million funding round.
Chief, the network designed to develop the leadership skills of women, has hit a $1.1 billion valuation in a matter of three years.
Mary Meeker’s growth equity firm, Bond Capital, has raised $2.5 billion for its third fund.
Mandy Bynum Mc Laughlin was named new CEO of BLCK VC.
Black Founder Matter Fund, a Portland-based VC firm focused on investing in Black founder-led companies, closed $3 million for a planned $10 million seed-stage fund.
La sélection Challenges des 100 start-up où investir en 2022.
Womvest, a South African network of women in the investment ecosystem, launches its own investment vehicle seeking to provide funds for women-owned and women-led businesses.
Al Mada Holding Group launches a US $109.8 million pan-African venture capital fund to invest in fast-growing startups.
A heartfelt thank you for reading and see you next week!
You can follow us on Twitter @veliza9 and @4Cgirlswhotech for updates throughout the week.
If you liked this email, pay it forward. Our list of subscribers continues to grow so please keep the momentum going and share!
Did someone share this with you? Sign up here.
Get in touch if you’d like to share stories, tips, comments, or questions. Feel free to send us articles from investors, founders, influencers, and startups that you think would be helpful to our community of readers. We might be able to include it in next week's newsletter.