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500 Startups Batch 15 Diversity Stats: 33% Female, 15% Black, 10% Latino
A new 500 Startups batch means new diversity stats. In the startup accelerator’s 15th batch, 44% of the founders are international, 33% are female, 15% are black and 10% are Latino, 500 Startups Founding Partner Dave McClure announced today at demo day. 500 Startups has generally been pretty good around investing in female founders. To date, more than 400 startups in the 500… Read More
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Rwanda’s Not-So-Improbable Ambition To Be A Startup Hub of Africa
It’s an odd feeling to come from California, one of the world’s most prodigious economies where the infrastructure and public systems are simultaneously falling apart in plain view, and arrive in the tiny, landlocked East African country of Rwanda. The first thing you notice is how exceptionally clean the streets of Kigali appear. That’s because of a ban on… Read More
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The New American Dream: My Life As A Minority Startup Owner
My life can be split into two halves, each fulfilling an American dream. The first half I spent on the American dream that was engrained from birth — “pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” The second, current half of my life revolves around an American dream that has arisen from our technocratic society — “start your own business.” Every statistic on the… Read More
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Your Firm Is Missing Out On The Biggest Investment In History
Looking for an untapped market for a great new investment? Try 50.4 percent of the population. Today, women are the largest emerging investible class across the globe. Only 2.7 percent of venture capital-funded companies have a female CEO, and even in the 36.2 percent of non-farm businesses that are woman-owned, women only earned 11.3 percent of the revenue. Read More
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Watch The Inspiring Movie ‘CODEGIRL’ For Free On YouTube Until November 5th
Alphabet, which backs diversity in all facets of technology, is helping to shed light on a specific project…a film called “CODEGIRL“. It comes via filmmaker Lesley Chilcott, who you might be familiar with from her work on “An Inconvenient Truth” and “Waiting for Superman.” Countdown 2 @codegirlmovie! 12noon PT launch today on @YouTube.… Read More
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HandUp, A Startup Combatting Homelessness, Is Setting An Example For The Tech Industry
On the heels of launching donation gift cards for the homeless, HandUp hosted a community outreach day this past Friday in San Francisco to continue to bring awareness to homelessness, as well as give people a way to engage with the homeless community. In partnership with Project Homeless Connect, HandUp hosted a homeless outreach day, featuring San Francisco city officials, employees… Read More
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Glassbreakers Is Launching Enterprise Software For Diversity
Glassbreakers, the mentorship platform for women, is getting into the enterprise software business, after recently doing trial runs with Box and Pinterest. Next year, Glassbreakers will officially launch an enterprise solution for diversity to companies with over 10,000 employees. The Glassbreakers enterprise software will offer mentorship for women, a content channel to highlight… Read More
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Slack Releases Diversity Data, Reports Higher Percentage Of Black People In Engineering Than Company-Wide
Team communication startup Slack just released its diversity data, becoming the fourth Unicorn startup after Airbnb, Dropbox and Pinterest to do so.
Here are the stats around the racial and ethnic identity of Slack’s employees: 70% “Non-Hispanic Caucasian” aka white, 4% African-American, 19% Asian and 7% “Mixed-Race/Other.” Meanwhile, women make up 39% of… Read More
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Blavity Hopes To Be The Digital Voice of Black Millennials
Millennials are the most diverse generation in history. According to the White House Millennial Report, 40 percent of millennials are people of color. Blavity, a media startup founded by Morgan Debaun, is hoping to give a voice to this generation. Debaun was inspired to create Blavity after feeling constantly misrepresented and left out of mainstream media. “I got tired of consuming all… Read More
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This Week On Bullish: Radical Transparency
Hello friends and welcome back to Bullish, a weekly show from TechCrunch designed to see how long I can sit under lights and not sweat through my makeup. Jokes aside, Bullish is our first talk show, and we’re glad that you are here. This week, I’m very happy to report that we brought Buffer co-founder and COO Leo Widrich back to headquarters for a chat about salary transparency,… Read More
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