2023年5月4日

这些8 impact-minded创业越来越investor-ready村首都通路直流正寻求帮助从弱势群体为导向的创始人获得早期资本。让我们满足群组。温柔的心帮助家庭在他们需要的时候。(照片通过温柔的心/ Facebook)作为特殊教育管理员在华盛顿公立学校,布兰登最好了斗争与家长和老师之间缺少沟通了十多年。这就是为什么他创立了PT聊天,一个平台设计的标题我学校,让父母经常与他们的老师交谈和检查他们的孩子。“很多学校真的有困难时参与家庭,尤其是在某种程度上影响他们的底线,这是学生的成就,”最好告诉技术。ly。“又,他们有48000名学生,他们收到2500万美元的标题我资金,和1%的资金投入,根据法律,家庭参与项目。这就是我们。过去几年中,他们一直试图找出如何花这些钱。“上周,PT聊天(父母/老师聊天的简称)是在八个特区之一动静分区创业选择的村庄资本和洛克菲勒基金会的通路直流项目。 Ebony Pope is the director of U.S. Ventures at Village Capital, which invests in companies that are solving social issues within education, financial technology, energy education, health care and agriculture. The Village Capital Pathways program, which is also working with minority and woman-owned startups in Philadelphia, Chicago and Atlanta, plans to help the startups become investment-ready and link them with angel investor opportunities. All of the companies have a social mission and are led by founders from groups that are underrepresented in tech. Often, these startups have a tougher time getting early-stage funding. “We’re hoping that through this program they’re able to meet with angel investors or other ecosystem players that can help them scale or grow and in the next year or two they can get involved with our programs, which are for companies that are a little farther along at the seed stage to get venture capital funding from us, or from other organizations,” Pope said. PT Chat (Courtesy photo) SouSou is a mobile crowd banking platform designed to connect investors and banks to women-owned businesses and female prospective home buyers. “Women are getting screwed out of funding,” said SouSou CEO and founder Fonta Gilliam. “We are two times more likely to be denied a loan at a bank, we are four times less likely to receive venture capital and 34 percent more likely to receive a subprime loan. And banks and institutional investors have a serious challenge finding investment-ready businesses, particularly startups.” The Mentor Method leverages a company’s top performers to attract, engage and retain diverse tech talent through mentorship. “As a woman of color in tech, despite having certifications from MIT and the Harvard Extension School, oftentimes I was treated as the token for companies looking to check off their diverse hiring box,” said Janice Omadeke, founder and CEO of The Mentor Method. “This resulted in me taking all of my top-performing, brilliant ideas over to competitors where they would utilize them, and unfortunately this case is all too common.” We Are Marcus delivers a virtual on-demand character development curriculum designed to close the mentoring gap for middle school and high school boys of color. “We know more and more that students are engaging with their phones,” said Christopher King, founder and CEO of We Are Marcus. “You get a bunch of kids that get sent to the male role model at the school. Now you’ve got a cohort of kids who are missing class time consistently.” Cohort members also include: RecruitHer , which helps companies attract more female tech talent by identifying unconscious gender bias in job descriptions and offering data driven recommendations for alternative language. Elite Gaming Live, an interscholastic competitive gaming platform that provides STEM programming for grades 4-12, educating students on careers in technology and game development. Mully Lingua , which works with families to raise globally aware and multilingual kids by connecting them with local events and activities that provide authentic cultural learning experiences. WordsLiive , an app that enhances literacy by integrating student interests and preferences within music and social media into their school curriculum.