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TAG Connect Uplifts Underrepresented Tech Entrepreneurs

TAG Connect Uplifts Underrepresented Tech Entrepreneurs

On September 10th, TAG Bridge Builders hosted TAG Connect, its annual event designed to bridge the gap between underrepresented tech entrepreneurs and corporate procurement opportunities. The event aimed to foster future collaborations by connecting entrepreneurs with key decision-makers from top companies. In a Shark Tank-style format, six presenting

UrbanGeekz Steps Out of The Newsroom With Launch Of Pre-Accelerator Program

UrbanGeekz Steps Out of The Newsroom With Launch Of Pre-Accelerator Program

News platform UrbanGeekz is making headlines of its own this week with the launch of a new pre-accelerator program. The Atlanta-based outlet, which covers multicultural news around technology, science, businesses, and entrepreneurship, launched Geekz Ventures as a way to help tech-focused startups with underestimated founders get off

With The Suites, Founder Takes New Approach To Building A Business Community

Shimite Obialo was well aware of the statistics around Black and brown founders when she entered the VC startup space in 2017. The most recent data suggests that minority founders raised just 2.4% of all venture funding over the past six years. Obialo, a corporate finance attorney and entrepreneur,

Behind The Verizon-powered Mini-Accelerator Helping Goodie Nation Founders

Behind The Verizon-powered Mini-Accelerator Helping Goodie Nation Founders

Going through an accelerator can be a rite of passage for many startups looking to build or scale a business. But a mini-accelerator? Atlanta-based Goodie Nation is teaming up with Verizon with a short-form program specifically designed to help diverse founders get marketing and communications (MarCom) training.

RCIE

Minority-Focused Russell Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Opens to First Members

In the year since Jay Bailey has taken over at the Herman J. Russell Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a business-building incubator that aims to broaden opportunity for minority residents, the native Atlantan entrepreneur has been busy. RCIE occupies a 50,000 square foot campus in Castleberry Hill, a

Kiwitech

KiwiTech Brings Its Tech-For-Equity Model to the South

To build a technology company, you need capital, often from outside investors. And to land investment, you need to show them your product. To build that product, you have to write code, right? Well, not necessarily. Many would-be tech entrepreneurs get stuck at this critical junction — how to turn

Why This Minority-Geared Impact Fund Launched In the Southeast

Why This Minority-Geared Impact Fund Launched In the Southeast

To provide more business-building opportunities to minority founders, investment firm Calvert Impact Capital and impact investment consulting firm Urban Advisors have come together to launch a $12 million-plus Charlotte, NC-based impact investing fund. UP Community Fund will provide flexible loans and technical assistance to minority-owned businesses