300+ Fundraising and Development Resources for Black, Latinx, and Women Founders

For the past 12 months, I've been collecting and bookmarking top fundraising and development resources for Black, Latinx, and women founders that could help my mentees and clients.

I had not spent time to compile and publish the list in a public post until I was inspired to do so by a Techstars mentee.

It has now turned into somewhat of a passion project in support of my daughter, and I continue to add resources as I become aware of them (see Change Log at the end of the article and Like the article to receive updates that I will post on occasion).

The resources in this article will help you to:

?? Find investors who invest in underrepresented founders

?? Build your network of other founders and community leaders

?? Learn about fundraising and scaling your startup

?? Support other Black, Latinx, and women creatives and engineers by hiring for their team

?? Create investment community awareness

So here it is. Don't start from scratch.

The list includes: 

? 25+ Investor databases, lists, and leads

? 700+ of the most influential people

? 30+ Organizations actively supporting diversity in the tech industry

? 80+ Communities, networks, education, and fellowship programs

? 20+ Organizations supporting the next generation

? 10+ Job and recruiting marketplaces

? 60+ Sources of data, news, insights, and opinion

? PR and Marketing Opportunities

? Special Offers

Please keep in mind that this list is:

1. Not collectively exhaustive.
2. Not intended to be a ranking.
3. A living document that I will update on an ongoing basis (see Change Log at the end of the article and Like the article to receive updates).

Suggestions are welcome! If you have a resource or topic that you think should be added, please let me know in the comments. And, if you like this resource guide, please feel free to share it with your network.

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General Data Sources and Lists

The Big Investor Database: I maintain this DB of investing resources for BIPOC and Women founders. Includes:

• 580+ Women angels
• 150+ VCs investing in underrepresented founders
• 30+ Latinas in VC
• 80+ VCs with Black Founders
• 45+ VCs with Latinx Founders
• 1000 VCs with women founders
• 130+ Investors, accelerators, and resources supporting underrepresented founders and investors
• 340+ Black Leaders in Tech

List: Black American Startup Resource List: 742+ Accelerators, Incubators, Investors, and more (2021 Update) by Founder Institute.

List: 2019: Power 200: Black & Latinx Venture Capitalists You Should Know (Harlem Capital)

List - LinkedIn: Search "minority based investor" 

List - LinkedIn: Search "female, investor"

List: List of investors, accelerators, and resources supporting underrepresented founders and investors (Anna Phan)

List: Diverse Investors: by Founders for Change.

List: No Warm Intro Required: by Yuliya Bel.

List: Europe's Top 30 Young VCs by sifted.

List: The UK's Most Active Angel Investors (2021) by sifted.

Investors - U.S.

Note: The list includes funds that invest in and/or are led by Black, Latinx, or women GPs.

1863 Fund: A revenue-based financing fund dedicated to minority entrepreneurs (the New Majority). Part of 1863 Ventures.

10x10 Fund: Investing in exceptional black founders.

Acrew Capital: Acrew Capital, led by Lauren Kolodny & Theresia Gouw, is raising a new fund that will attempt to open the door to a more diverse universe of limited partners. Acrew’s new Diversify Capital Fund will target LPs from underrepresented backgrounds and will invest in growth-stage businesses on the path to an IPO.

Amex Ventures: As the strategic investment arm of American Express, Amex Ventures invests in start-ups in three areas: consumer commerce, B2B services and core capabilities. One of our missions is to help forge partnerships between startups and the business units inside Amex. Diversity is a priority for our investments.

Amplifyher Ventures: A Venture Capital firm that invests in visionary founders with women in decision-making roles. Invests primarily in NYC and Boston-based companies.

Angel Capital Association: The ACA has a directory of member angel groups that is a good starting point for finding angel groups.

Anthemis: Anthemis has a diversified portfolio of best-in-class, high-growth, digitally native financial services companies based around the world. The firm has a strong track-record of investing in women-led companies.

Astia: Astia invests in high-growth companies with women leaders. Astia Angels is global group of accredited investors. Astia Fund Astia employs a traditional venture capital structure to invest in the most promising lead and follow-on opportunities. And Astia Edge invests in exceptional seed stage companies led by Black and LatinX women through an evergreen fund backed by corporate partners.

AVG Anti-bias Fund: The fund focuses on appealing to investors interested in impact investing and making a smart addition to their investment portfolio. The Fund offers an opportunity to invest in a venture portfolio of ~20-30 diverse companies led by a biased-against founder/team and/or featuring a business model addressing systemic biases.

Backstage Capital: Backstage Capital has invested in more than 150 companies led by women, People of Color, and LGBTQ founders.

Basecamp Fund: An Alumni Ventures Group Fund. It is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in audacious entrepreneurs solving meaningful problems in big markets. They invest across categories and geographies. 

BBG Ventures: A New York-based seed stage venture capital fund investing in women-led consumer tech startups. 

Belle Capital: An early stage angel fund focused on building great companies in Michigan and other, underserved geographic regions in the Midwest and South. Companies must have at least one female founder.

Beta Boom: Beta Boom invests in diverse founders and helps them grow their startups with daily coaching and support from product, marketing, sales, and fundraising experts.

Beyond the Billion (The Billion Dollar Fund for Women): The fund fuels women-led innovation and returns through diversity by driving capital to venture funds investing into women.

Black Ambition Prize: Founded by Pharrell Williams, Black Ambition, is a non-profit initiative that provides a bridge to success for Black and Latinx entrepreneurs who are launching tech, design, healthcare, and consumer products/services start-ups. 

Black Founders Fund: Goodie Nation has partnered with Google For Startups to distribute $5 million in non-dilutive financial capital to 75+ of the most promising Black-led startups from across the U.S. through the Google for Startups Black Founders Fund.

Black Founders Matter: A $10M venture fund focused on Black entrepreneurs.

Black Girl Ventures (BGV): Provides Black/Brown woman-identifying founders with access to community, capital, and capacity building in order to meet business milestones that lead to economic advancement through entrepreneurship.

Blossom Capital: Founded by Ophelia Brown, this funds invests in Series A companies in Europe.

Bumble Fund: Invests in early-stage and focusing primarily on businesses founded and led by women of color and those from underrepresented groups. 

Chai Angels / Rajiv Kapoor: Rajiv's Chai Angels seeks to invest in businesses with at least one female founder.

Chloe Capital: A seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in women-led innovation companies. 

Cleo Capital: Led by Sarah Kunst, this is an early stage VC fund backing exceptional founders at the preseed and seed stages.

Citi Impact Fund: A $200 million venture capital fund investing in U.S.-based double bottom line companies focused on sustainability, financial capability, workforce development, and physical and social infrastructure. The fund is particularly focused on funding minority and woman founders (and at the seed stage will fund them exclusively). $50 million of the fund is dedicated to Black founders.

Concrete Rose Capital: Concrete Rose is an early stage investment platform focused on the diversity opportunity by capitalizing underrepresented founders, investing in companies serving underrepresented consumers, and helping early stage companies build diverse teams.

DivInc: Austin-based accelerator. It's mission is to bridge the gap between underrepresented entrepreneurs and the resources they need to build profitable, high-growth companies.

DiverseCity Ventures: Backs companies with both positive social / economic / environmental impact, and high potential for outsized returns.

DYVVYD: Powered by A.I & Machine Learning, DYVVYD is the Tech Industry's 1st Diversity & Inclusion Platform and Digital Community for VCs and Startups.

EnrichHER: A financial technology platform that matches revenue-generating companies led by women and founders of color to individual and institutional sources of funding. (Founder and CEO: Dr. Roshawnna Novellus.)

Equal Opportunity Ventures: EO Ventures invests in early-stage businesses that increase opportunity in America.

Equality Can't Wait Challenge: Pivotal Ventures’ Equality Can’t Wait Challenge will award $30 million to help expand women’s power and influence in the United States by 2030.

F7 Ventures: Founded by women from Twitter, Facebook, and Uber, this fund invests in Future of Work & Families; Mental & Physical Health; and Connected Communities.

The Female Founded Club: A sourcing platform that investors use to find exceptional female founded startups.

Female Founders First by Barclays and Techstars: Access to networks, business advice and capital. Barclays and Techstars have teamed up to provide 30 trailblazing female-led companies the tools and resources they need to take the next step to grow their businesses.

Female Founders Fund: An early-stage fund investing in the exponential power of exceptional female talent. Investing in B2B, Consumer, Healthcare, and Fintech.

Finclusive Ventures: Cultivating and Leveraging FID: Female | Immigrant | Diverse founders and investors to create new markets. Join at finclusive.vc.

FinRise by Plaid: Launched in January 2021, FinRise is a nine-month incubator program designed to support early-stage founders who are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC) in launching their businesses.

Flatirons Fund: An accelerator that invests product development and design resources in Black, Latinx, and female founders

Forerunner Ventures: An investment firm dedicated to partnering with ambitious entrepreneurs who are meeting the challenges and opportunities of today’s rapidly evolving digital commerce landscape. Invests in Consumer, Enterprise, and Healthcare.

GHX Capital: How angel investor Gil X. Hernandez invests with the goal of altering the diversity landscape in tech by investing in startups with missions that will help the world.

Golden Seeds: An investment firm dedicated to pursuing market returns through the empowerment of women entrepreneurs and the people who invest in them. In total, Golden Seeds has invested nearly $130 million in 185 companies through its angel network and its venture funds. 

Good Growth Capital (GGC): An early-stage VC firm investing in complex science and technology startups. It is majority women- and minority-owned and is uniquely positioned geographically in both the Southeast and New England.

Google for Startups Black Founders Fund: The $5M Google for Startups Black Founders Fund provides non-dilutive cash awards to Black led startups that have participated in our programs or have been nominated by the partner community.

Halogen Ventures: an early stage venture capital fund investing in consumer technology companies led by women.

Harbinger Ventures: Works exclusively with early-stage companies in the consumer sector that are led by female or mixed-gender founder teams, and address significant market gaps through product, brand and business innovation.

Harlem Capital: Harlem Capital is a venture capital firm on a mission to change the face of entrepreneurship by investing in 1,000 diverse founders over the next 20 years.

The Helm: An early-stage venture firm investing in game-changing companies founded by women through a fund and investor membership.

Hillman: Dedicated to operating an inclusive entrepreneurship education program. They serve underrepresented tech-driven startups through mentorship, specialized curriculum, partnerships, and capital investments.

IFundWomen: The go-to funding marketplace for women-owned businesses and the people who want to support them with access to capital, coaching, and connections.

ImpactAssets 50: The IA 50 has become one of the most trusted and recognized free databases of impact investment fund managers.

Inspired Capital: This $200M fund led by Alexa von Tobel and Penny Pritzker is sector agnostic, and is just as interested in consumer, media, healthcare and enterprise SaaS startups as money or property management. $500K to $10M checks.

Intel Capital Diversity Fund: At $125 million, Intel's is the largest diversity fund, and has been since it launched in 2015. The fund invests broadly in what it calls "underrepresented tech entrepreneurs"--women, minorities, people with disabilities, LGBTQ entrepreneurs, and veterans. 

Jane Walker First Women Grant Program: Through this program, Jane Walker will be awarding 15 ground-breaking women-owned businesses each with a $10K grant and a one-year IFundWomen Annual Coaching membership.

January Ventures: An early stage venture fund investing in visionary female founders who are building the next big tech companies. It invests in the US and Europe in pre-seed and seed stage tech companies with a focus on future of work, health and commerce.

Jumpstart Focus Fund: A $10 million fund for women and minority entrepreneurs. It comes out of the powerhouse accelerator and economic development hub JumpStart, which is based in Cleveland and aims to support entrepreneurs in Ohio--or those who are willing to move there.

Leadout Capital: Led by Ali Rosenthal, this fund is an early stage venture capital fund with a focus on backing “non-obvious”, resilient founders working on solving problems in overlooked and underserved markets.

Lightship Capital:  Lightship Capital invests in early stage companies led by BIPOC, LBGTQ+, women & people with disabilities who operate in the CPG, E-Commerce, Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence, and Healthcare spaces. 

MATR Ventures: A seed stage fund investing in Underestimated Founders: Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Latinx, Women, LGBTQ2S, Newcomers and Disabled communities.

Mendoza Ventures: Mendoza Ventures - founded by Senofer and Adrian Mendoza - is a Boston based Fintech, AI, and Cybersecurity venture capital firm that is location agnostic. I'm an LP there. We invest in pre-seed is both minority and woman-owned and 67% of our portfolio is minority and woman-led.

Merian Ventures: At $100 million, Merian is one of the largest funds to invest solely in women at seed and Series A. Investments split evenly between the U.S. and the U.K., and it searches for companies in cyber technologies, AI/ML, and consumer tech essential to the IoT.

The Minority Entrepreneurship Institute: M.E.I. is an impact investing fund that hosts annual pitch competitions for Black, LatinX, and Female Founders. losing the economic and educational gap in minority communities across the midwest and southeast through entrepreneurship.

Mission Investors Exchange: The leading impact investing network for foundations dedicated to deploying capital for social and environmental change. The site is a great resource to find foundations that invest in early stage companies.

MGV Capital Group: An all-Latinx fund focused on enabling massive growth for digital startups across North America. 60% of investments so far have been in underrepresented founders. Invest primarily in underserved entrepreneurial ecosystems across North America. (Leadership: Mariano González, Founder and General Partner.)

Moore Ventures: Led by GPs Melinda Moore and Darius Sankey Ph.D., this fund invests in innovative businesses that leverage scalable technology to solve some of the world’s largest environmental challenges to help mitigate climate change globally. They fund the most diverse founders and teams with an emphasis on female founders and minorities.

Moxxie Ventures: Led by Katie Stanton, the fund invests in Seed stage companies that make life and work better.

NewME: An entrepreneurship education program, serving early-stage business founders and their teams through mentorship, specialized curriculums, and for those companies chosen-- capital investment. As the first underrepresented founder focused program in the United States, NewMe has led founders to more than $47 MM in funding.

New Voices Foundation: To date, the Foundation has invested more than $1.4 million in non-dilutive capital and matched support dollars in companies owned by women of color, hosted nine pitch competitions for 87 women at EssenceFest, CES and other leading national and regional anchor events, provided hundreds of coaching and mentorship hours, and connected them to meaningful networking and partnership opportunities. Has a 13,000+ strong community.

New Voices Fund: The fund invests in women of color from seed stage to Series C, and concentrate on consumer, technology, and media/entertainment companies.

On Deck Access Fund: A $1M+ scholarship pool for underestimated talent, powered by the On Deck community.

One Way Ventures: One Way Ventures - a seed fund led by Semyon Dukach, Lex Zhao, and Eugene Malobrodsky - invests between $500K and $1M with exceptional immigrant founders building high-impact global companies. The firm closed its $57.5M second fund in January 2021.

Operator Collective: Operator Collective brings together as limited partners 100+ of tech’s most sought-after operators, investors, and founders from diverse backgrounds to invest in and accelerate the next generation of b2b tech.

Panoramic Ventures: An Atlanta-based VC that places a focus on diverse founders, overlooked regions and university startups. They are stage agnostic. “We can write a $100,000 check to a startup or a $20 million check to a company that is scaling.”

Pipeline Angels: Pipeline Angels is changing the face of angel investing and creating capital for trans women, cis women, nonbinary, two-spirit, agender, and gender-nonconforming founders.

Pivotal Ventures: An investment and incubation company created by Melinda Gates. They partner with organizations and individuals who share their urgency for social progress in the U.S. Their Equality Can’t Wait Challenge will award $30 million to help expand women’s power and influence in the United States by 2030.

Portfolia: Investment Funds Designed for Women. So far, Portfolia has funds in categories such as active aging and femtech, with a total of $6 million under management.

RareBreed Ventures: A pre-seed fund that invests in exceptional founders outside of the large tech eco-systems earlier than everyone else. Targeting check size of 250K.

Rebel One Venture Fund (RBL1): An early-stage venture fund and a global investor community striving to achieve zero inequality.

Reinventure Capital: The firm invest exclusively in US companies led by BIPOC and/or womxn founders, at breakeven and poised to grow profitably.

Renegade Partners: Led by Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek, this fund invests in the "Supercritical", post Series A stage.

Rethink Capital Partners: RCP is an investment platform for impact, rethinking the role private capital plays in helping address systemic inequality and injustice while seeking to deliver competitive returns.

Rethink Impact: A venture capital firm investing in female leaders using technology to solve the world’s biggest problems. Sectors: Healthcare, Economic Opportunity, Education, and Environment.

RevUP Capital: Founded by Melissa Withers and Allan Tear, this is a non-equity investment fund for companies moving fast up a revenue-driven growth curve. RevUp pairs cash investment with a science-driven process to turbo charge revenue growth

Second Muse: Financing companies of the future. Invested fund with Lightship Capital.

Seae Ventures: The firm is dedicated to building and investing in early-stage healthcare technology and service companies primarily founded by Women and people who identify as Black, Indigenous and People of Color. 

SheEO: SheEO is a global community of radically generous women building a $1B perpetual fund to support women working on the World’s To-Do List.Launched in 2015 in Canada and now also in the US, Australia, New Zealand and UK, this visionary model is emerging as a leading global innovation that is totally unique.

Slauson & Co: A pre-seed and seed-stage VC that seeks to democratize access to entrepreneurship by bridging the gap between untapped founders - historically overlooked by the traditional venture ecosystem - and the right capital and resources required to create sustainable equity and economic inclusion. Invests across the U.S. in SMB SaaS and Consumer Tech.

SoGal Ventures: SoGal Ventures is the first female-led, next generation venture capital firm. We have invested in 80+ startups with world-class, diverse entrepreneurs in the US, Asia Pacific, Europe, and Africa. Investments in the Fund I portfolio are featured below.

Springboard Enterprises: A platform where entrepreneurs, investors, and industry experts meet to build great women-led businesses. Springboard educates, sources, coaches, showcases and supports high growth companies seeking equity capital for expansion. Over $27B of value created.

The Community Fund: The Community Fund led by Lolita Taub and Jesse Middleton is a $5 million early-stage fund that invests in community-driven companies through an investment partner team. 

Unshackled Ventures: Its mission is to accelerate the success of immigrant founders — and create 100,000 American jobs.

Valence: "Valence connects, showcases, and empowers the global Black professional community through the magic of technology and art. We establish meaningful connections with companies and capital that create career opportunities and spawn new ventures. We help demystify professional advancement pathways through inspirational storytelling and structured community driven mentorship."

Valence Funding Network: "We’ve brought together the greatest venture capitalists from around the world that represent various stages and sectors of focus but share an important attribute: a readiness to invest in Black founders." See also Brad Feld's LinkedIn post. Here is another post by Mark Suster.

Visible Hands: Visible Hands is a pre-seed accelerator and fund that invests in the most talented BIPOC and women across the US to support them in building transformational technology companies.

Wave Capital: Led by Sara Adler, this fund specializes in marketplaces. From hiring an early team, to finding product-market fit and raising a strong series A, the firm is designed to be the only partner founders need as they get up and running.

Women of the World Endowment: Women of the World Endowment (WoWE) invests at the intersection of gender and some of today's most pressing social and environmental issues. Their aim is to build the largest endowment focused on women and girls ($5 billion) with a portfolio that is 100% dedicated to investing with a gender lens.

Women's Venture Capital Fund: Invests in digital media and sustainable product and service companies with women entrepreneurs and gender-diverse teams that meet the following criteria: early stage, west coast based that are high-growth and scalable.

Worklife Ventures: Led by Brianne Kimmel, this fund invests in tools and services for people and FoW companies.

X Factor Ventures:  A pre-seed fund focused on investing in female founders with billion-dollar ideas.

Zane Venture Fund: "We are on a mission to catalyze the proliferation of world-class organizations led by diverse founders and teams building tech-enabled solutions by providing capital access and support to companies that can capitalize on our support to scale their business."

Investors - Europe

Ada Ventures: A UK venture capital firm which invests in overlooked founders and markets for companies based in the UK and with global ambitions.

Atomico Angel Programme: VC firm Atomico's angel program is primarily focused on boosting the diversity of Europe’s startup ecosystem. Across the first two cohorts, Atomico angels from underrepresented backgrounds (defined as women and non-white investors) made 57% of their investments into founders from underrepresented backgrounds. That compares to just 20% of investments made by your average angel (surveyed in the latest State of European Tech report). 

Frontline: Frontline is the venture firm for globally ambitious B2B companies on both sides of the Atlantic. It specializes in helping European companies to enter the U.S. and vice versa. The last fundraising process was also different this time in the focus investors placed on diversity.

Investors - Africa

Dazzle Angels: The first female focused angel fund in South Africa.

FirstCheck Africa:  A female-focused angel fund launched in 2021 that is fixing capital access for female tech entrepreneurs in Africa. Invests between $15K and $25K in exchange for modest equity.

RISE by Sundara Fund: Supports female social entrepreneurs from emerging economies with innovations that improve water, sanitation and public health. Our current cohort of fellows are from Nigeria, India, Tanzania, Ghana, and Armenia.

Shecluded: A financial growth company for women in Africa. Based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Ventures Platform: A leading source of capital, capacity building, support, and advocacy for under-served entrepreneurs, communities and institutions, enabling them to enhance the creation of wealth and development in Africa.

Investors - Asia Pacific

AirTree Ventures (AUS): A group of experienced investors and entrepreneurs that focuses on early investments in break-out companies. Daniel Petre and Craig Blair have made diversity a priority for the fund. 

Artesian (AUS): A global alternative investment management firm specializing in debt, venture capital and impact investment strategies. Artesian is recruiting and training the next generation of women VCs via its intern program and has a Women Economic Empowerment Fund.

One Ventures (AUS): One of Australia's leading venture capital firms, with almost $500 million in funds under management. OneVentures had almost 29 per cent female-founded startups in its portfolio and the fund's management and investment teams are female-dominated.

Scale Investors (AUS): Australia's first and only network of angel investors who invest in exceptional female founders.

Investors - For Venture Funds

First Close Partners: Backs venture funds owned by underrepresented managers (“URMs”) -- especially to help them get to a “first close.” We invest in venture capital firms owned and operated by URMs who are people of color, women, LGBTQIA+, Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and members of other groups that have been historically underrepresented, especially (but not solely) in the venture capital industry.

Investors - Matching Platforms

Female Founded Club: Connect with top investors actively looking to fund the best female founded startups. Showcase your business and grow your network today. 

Foundernest: Uses AI to match founders with investors.

Startup-Investor Matching: A matching service by Lolita Taub.

Scroobious: A video-based platform for investors to efficiently source the diverse deal flow they’re missing out on and a humanized way for underrepresented founders to establish investor relationships.

Lists - Other Great Resources

The 2021 Resource Guide For Female Entrepreneurs: A guide by Lioness Magazine listing accelerators, fundraising, marketing, free course, tools, news, and other valuable resources.

Founders Institute - Black American Startup Resource List: 700+ Accelerators, Incubators, Investors, and more.

Developing Diversity in Venture Capital and Industry

AI Paths: AI Paths’ mission is to support under-represented groups, as for example women and people of color, to explore and achieve a career path in AI and data science.

Amplify Latinx: A non-partisan, collaborative movement whose mission is to build Latinx economic and political power by significantly increasing Latinx civic engagement and representation in leadership positions across sectors.

Backstage Crowd: Backstage Capital's syndicate. Invest alongside Arlan Hamilton and Backstage to get access to the best diverse deal flow in VC.

Black Venture Institute: Operator Collective, BLCK VC, and Salesforce Ventures have come together to create the Black Venture Institute, a curriculum-based program designed to give Black executives the education, experience, and connections they need to pursue careers in venture capital and investing. Here is a Medium article about the venture.

BLCK VC: BLCK VC is transforming the venture capital industry to mirror the diverse demographics of the U.S. Venture Capital is a crucial component of achieving economic equality; it is a vehicle to build wealth, develop future leaders, and strengthen communities.

digitalundivided: Founded in 2012, digitalundivided, is a social startup with 501 (c) 3 status that merges data and heart to develop innovative programs and initiatives that catalyzes economic growth in Black and Latinx communities.

Diversity in U.S. Startups (2021): A report on the diversity in U.S. venture backed startups by RateMyInvestor, in partnership with Diversity VC.

Diversity UK: Diversity UK is a think tank to research, advocate and promote new ideas for improving diversity and inclusion in Britain. It is an evidence-based initiative that seeks to influence policy, enhance civic engagement and improve the perception of the minority ethnic community in Britain.

Diversity VC: A non-profit partnership promoting diversity in Venture Capital.

European Digital Society: Think-and-Do Tank promoting an ethical, inclusive and sustainable European digital ecosystem.

Feminvest (Sweden): It's mission is for more women to own more, both as investors and as entrepreneurs.

Forefront: Forefront specializes in delivering in-person and virtual training to help your organization foster culturally-competent leaders. Our workshop topics include but not limited to Implicit Bias, Microagressions, Racial Equity, Gender Equity, Intersectionality in the Workplace, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) 101, and Generational Gaps at Work.

Founders for Change: Founders for Change brings together venture-backed founders who are dedicated to improving diversity and inclusion within their companies, and desire greater diversity at the highest levels of VC firms.

Gender Fair: Empowers consumers, employees and investors to support companies that share their values for equality. Founded in 2014 as a public benefit corporation, Gender Fair developed a proprietary, independent, and expert-reviewed rating system designed to measure the impact of gender equality policies and inclusion programs at the nation’s largest employers. Its approach is informed by the United Nations’ Women’s Empowerment Principles.

HBCUvc: HBCUvc’s mission is to direct how capital is formed and distributed to increase opportunities for Black, Indigenous, and Latinx innovators.

Impact of Diversity (Germany): A think tank, conference, award, and community promoting diversity in the German industry.

Included VC (Europe): A Fellowship for individuals from diverse communities which are often overlooked or excluded, providing access, opportunity and knowledge into the world of Venture Capital. Supported by several European top VCs.

Investors of Color Network: The organization is building a thriving ecosystem of Black and Latinx accredited investors to close the racial funding gap in startup capital.

LatinxVC: A group of experienced venture investors coming together to connect, engage, and foster the Latinx VC ecosystem.

National Venture Capital Association (NVCA): National VC trade group. Has a lot of great resources for founders: market research, valuation criteria and more.

ParentPreneur: Provides grants to Black ParentPreneurs to grow their business and to and assist with their parenting lifestyle.

Pipeline Fellowship: Focused on the U.S. Midwest region, the Pipeline Fellowship trains women philanthropists to become angel investors through education, mentoring, and practice. 

Pipeline Equity: Pipeline makes gender-equity achievable within organizations, driving improved business performance and success metrics.

Pledge LA: A collective of LA-based tech companies and venture capital firms working to create measurable change with the mission to build a tech sector that will truly reflect the diversity of Los Angeles.

Tech Funding Equity Opportunity Pledge: A pledge for tech industry investors.

Top Tier Impact: The global members-only community for Venture Capital & Private Equity investors, entrepreneurs and professionals who are focused on solving the critical issues of our time. 

Rising Tide Africa: Engages in educating and training women to become sophisticated angel investors through its program while offering them the opportunity to build a diversified portfolio of investments and receive mentoring from other women who are experienced angel investors.

The Fourth Floor: They get women leaders on boards of female led startups democratizing access to board seats.

Urban Labs: A strategic agency comprised of social justice leaders, brand marketing strategists & communication experts all tenured in the space of diversity, inclusion and cultural curation. 

Women Tech Council: Focuses on the economic impact of women in driving growth for the technology sector. WTC builds programs that amplify and create tech talent to support more women in technology careers from high school to the board room.

Vencapital: We help funnel a diverse talent pipeline into the Venture Finance industry by running venture programs that help facilitate diversity hiring and serve as a focal point for sourcing young & dynamic talents across the venture community. 

Venture Capital Inclusion Lab: The Venture Capital Inclusion Lab uses a data-driven approach to educate the VC industry and policy makers on inclusion. At the Lab, we believe that an inclusive economy is the foundation of our democracy.

Venturecapital.org: Builds the entrepreneur ecosystem with educational programs that nurture and teach diverse founders how to start and grow their companies

Waking the unConscious: A nonprofit with a core mission to focus a lens on both the systemic and relational dynamics of Anti-Black/POC Racism and Unconscious Bias in the workplace.

Communities, Networks, Education, and Fellowship Programs

1863 Ventures: Accelerating black and brown entrepreneurs from high potential to high growth, through rigorous leadership training and strategic market access.

AllRaise: All Raise arms female founders and funders with access, guidance, and support to exponentially accelerate their success and propel the entire industry forward. In this venture-backed ecosystem, access is not the end-game, it’s just the beginning.

African Women on Board (AWB): An African women-led independent non-profit organisation dedicated to reshaping the future for African women and girls globally by mainstreaming their voices and fast-tracking their trajectory into the leadership roles of the future.

Athena Alliance: Women first, community first and entirely virtual. Athena activates the connections, knowledge, and opportunities executive leaders need to break through the barriers that line the “last mile” of their career – to the C-suite, boardroom, or the world of entrepreneurship and investing.

Black Female Founders: Their platform and programs advance women from aspiration to investment. In an effort to increase diversity and inclusion within the global innovation ecosystem, they elevate and empower tech-enabled or tech-based ventures from idea conception to business implementation and towards investment.

Black Founders: Black Founders is creating an ecosystem that stimulates tech entrepreneurship and fosters economic growth. They develop global programs that equip entrepreneurs, inspire innovation, and allow us to share resources.

Black Women Talk Tech: A collective of black women tech founders focused on building billion dollar startups.

Boston Business Women: Cultivates the growth of our city's most successful female business women and entrepreneurs through networking events and online educational workshops.

Brown Girl Magazine: It was created by and for South Asian women who believe in the power of storytelling as a vehicle for community building and empowerment.

Boston While Black: Boston While Black is a membership network for Black professionals, entrepreneurs, & students who are seeking connection & community.

Changing Tides Movement: A global community designed by women founders, for women founders. Their mission is to drive massive amounts of capital into the hands of womxn

Chief: Chief is a private network focused on connecting and supporting women leaders.

Confluence.vc: A platform and community for VCs.

Connected Women: A global community of tech-powered women entrepreneurs, freelancers and professionals.

Diversity Toolkit: A curated collection of content for developing inclusive teams.

EforAll: EforAll has partnered with communities to help under-represented individuals successfully start their businesses.

Elevate Network: Ellevate is the community for women+ who know there is strength in numbers.

Elpha: Community for women in tech.

Facebook - Blavity Afrotech Group: Group with more than 170K followers.

Female Founders Alliance: Private network, investor community, programming, and corporate partnerships. 

Female Founder Collective: A network of businesses led by women, supporting women. Our mission is to enable and empower female owned and led businesses to positively impact our communities, both socially and economically.

Female Founder Initiative: A group of women backed by the world’s largest pre-seed accelerator - Founder Institute - that are there to help you build your company via thought leadership, a newsletter, and free pitch reviews.

Female Innovator's Lab: The Female Innovators Lab is a New York City-based studio dedicated to cultivating entrepreneurial talent in women from all sides of the financial services ecosystem. The Lab’s mission is to identify female founders at the idea stage of their journey and match them with the resources and mentorship required to develop a company and bring it to its first round of fundraising.

femmebought: An online platform, women's business directory and community. 

FLIK: A platform & community hub connecting female founders/leaders and students across the world via meaningful apprenticeships. 

Flybridge Community of Underrepresented Founders: Flybridge has joined dozens of other VC firms in signing on to the NVCA’s Diversity & Inclusion initiative as we believe that diversity is key to the success of our ecosystem. Below are some of the founders who identify as women or people of color.

For(bes) The Culture: Provides a platform for Black and Brown professionals that fosters professional development, social consciousness, civic engagement, intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship through community service projects, social and cultural outings, personal and professional workshops and seminars, mentoring, tutoring and networking.

Founders of the Future (UK): Building the next generation of diverse and purpose driven tech founders.

FounderTribes: At FounderTribes, we do not believe in pattern recognition, if that means excluding large segments of the global entrepreneurial community because of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, geography or any other irrelevant characteristic. Our app democratises entrepreneurship by granting access to the feedback, networks and capital needed to start and scale your business.

Founder Gym: The the leading online program training underrepresented founders on how to raise money to scale their tech startups.

Future Females Europe: Future Females provides a platform to connect, inspire and support female entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs.

GenZ VCs: A global collective of young investors and change-makers.

Get Sh!t Done: The superpower scaling sidekick for womxn entrepreneurs to gain traction and grow on their own terms.

Girl Code: Women-In-Tech Online Community & Technology Consultancy on a mission to close the Tech Gender Gap .

Global EIR: A non-profit dedicated to helping immigrant entrepreneurs secure visas.

Global Women in VC: The world’s largest global community for women in venture capital to connect, collaborate, and create new opportunities.

Goodie Nation: Goodie Nation is a national support nonprofit for tech-focused social entrepreneurs and diverse founders. exists to eliminate the relationship gap that stands in the way of success for too many promising entrepreneurs, especially those who are people of color, women, or aren't located in coastal financial centers. Apply to the program here.

GreenTech Noir: A community for Black people globally who are working in the business of sustainability and climate tech. This platform was designed to support everyone from founders to corporate leaders, to investors, and beyond.

Hustle Crew: Talks, training, community, and mentorship to make tech more inclusive since 2016.

Latina Venture Students: Latina Venture Students (LVS) is building the first student community for Latinas in venture capital. 

Latino Business Action Network (LBAN): A national 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization with the purpose of strengthening the United States by improving the lives of Latinos. The Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative is a research and education collaboration between Stanford University and the Latino Business Action Network. 

Leading Ladies Africa: A women-focused non-profit whose mission is to promote gender inclusivity and diversity by increasing participation and representation of women of African origin in fields of Leadership, Business, Politics and Advocacy.

Los Digitales: Los Digitales is an international Hispanic Influential Community by and for "Change-makers, Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs, Doers" that believe that together we can create empowerment, improvement, and great experiences for our community.

Movemeback: Makes Africa’s most exciting and unique opportunities accessible and realisable to top talent, leaders, influencers and organisations.

Mulheres Elétricas (Brazil): Electric Women arose from the need to connect women, so that together a network of reference, support and evolution is formed for each of the most diverse forms of women that exist with their different desires. A partner of the Female Founder Initiative.

OwnTrail: A platform that advances women individually and systemically through the scalable owning and sharing of the trails they blaze through life.

Paying it Forward: A Google spreadsheet of people offering mentoring, advice, and connections to Black professionals, no warm intro needed.

ParentPreneur: Empowering Black ParentPreneurs, so they can leave a legacy for their children.

PCDN 4.0: One of the world’s leading platforms connecting changemakers in diverse sectors to opportunities around the world. We have a global community of over 65,000 individuals/organizations engaged in social entrepreneurship, development, peacebuilding and related fields.

Product South: This Atlanta-based organization's mission is to create a centralized, supportive, and diverse tech ecosystem that uplifts the underrepresented through community, mentoring, training, and job matching. 

Products by Women: Connects women with mentors, trainings and job opportunities to accelerate their careers. Our platform offers a global community for women in technology to develop personally and professionally. 

Prospanica: A nonprofit and community that empowera and enables Hispanic MBAs and business professionals to achieve their full educational, economic, and social potential.

She Means Business Incubator: A business incubator dedicated to helping underrepresented women founders.

SheWorx: The global collective of ambitious female entrepreneurs redefining leadership. Recognized as the leading female entrepreneur event series, SheWorx provides women with access to top mentors and actionable business strategies to build and scale successful companies.

seedstars (Emerging Markets): A global organisation with a mission to impact people's lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship.

Series Q (UK): A non-profit with a mission to empower LGBT+ entrepreneurs and their colleagues across the startup ecosystem.

SheProfitsAfrica: Provides training, mentoring and connections for women entrepreneurs.

SwissFinTechLadies / SFTL (Switzerland): Aims to change that under-representation and encourage women to become part of the Ecosystem. They are a platform for change and growth and offer networking, group mentoring and theme events and help you to build critical skills.

Tech Stars - Funded, Fearless Females: Surviving and Thriving Through the Downturn: AMA from March 20, 2020.

The Capital Network Fellowship for Female Founders: Boston-based organization. This 6 month fellowship helps support 10-12 women per cohort who are building early stage startups and looking to raise a funding round. Women is inclusive of and welcome trans women, nonbinary folks, and anyone who identifies with womxnhood in any way that is significant to them.

The Female Influencer: A fast-growing and engaging community of female professionals on LinkedIn that's on a mission to celebrate female leadership and women empowerment. 

The Guild: A global community of female entrepreneurs, investors and innovators changing the odds for female entrepreneurs.

The Inspire Network (UK): Inspiring and empowering women to build successful businesses.

The Next Women (Netherlands): Organizes networking moments, workshops and business events for and by women.

The Violet Society: A pre-accelerator for female & non-binary startup founders

Together Digital: Created in 2016 by our Founder, Alaina Shearer, Together Digital, formerly known as Women in Digital, is an organization dedicated to accelerating the advancement and growth of women in digital by giving women the most powerful tool in their arsenal: one another.

Top American Latinx Tech Leaders: One of the most influential private groups in Silicon Valley. Members are leaders with impressive track records who have sold their companies for billions of dollars and/or taken them public, invested billions in technology startups and created thousands of American jobs.

Tory Burch Foundation: One-year Fellowship with the Tory Burch Foundation that includes virtual education programming, workshops and business guidance.

TuesdayNights: A collaborative community of female founders, executives, investors and entrepreneurs in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Ureeka: A single platform where Next Wave entrepreneurs have access to the people, programs and connections they need to grow. Leveraging their experience, access and desire to help, our founders built Ureeka to be available for all, specifically with underserved entrepreneurs in mind.

VCFamilia: A community supporting current & emerging Latinx investors/founders through collaboration & transparency.

W Collective: he hub for female entrepreneurs & executives in Utah and beyond.

WaiACCELERATE: Organized by Women in AI, WaiACCELERATE is a systematic, six month curriculum for aspiring women founders to develop female-led startups that use Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and Data Science to attain the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Free of cost. No equity taken.

Warrior Women Network: The Warrior Women Network is a global community for self-identifying women working to improve the lives of others and save the planet.

WEConnect International: WEConnect International is a global network that connects women-owned businesses to qualified buyers around the world.

WeTheChange: Women leaders of Certified B Corporations and other purpose-driven organizations — or anyone considers themself an ally — can sign onto WeTheChange

wiseHer: Connects women to on-demand with top consultants, mentors, coaches and executives all ready to help you go farther, faster in your business or careers.

Women in AI: A Global community of women experts and influencers of women in AI. Their goal is to close the gender gap in the field of Artificial Intelligence by empowering women and raising awareness about gender diversity in AI.

Women in Immersive Technologies Europe: Connecting and supporting women and allies working/interested in virtual, augmented and mixed reality across Europe.

Women in Sports Tech: A community of business experts, startup veterans, sport scientists, developers, product designers, marketers, and students.

Women in Tech Global Forum: Women in Tech? is an international organization with a double mission: to close the gender gap and to help women embrace technology. The organization focuses on 4 primary areas that are a call for action: Education, Entrepreneurialism, Social Inclusion, Science & Innovation. The aim is to educate, equip and empower women and girls with the necessary skills and confidence to succeed in STEM career fields. 

Women's Inclusion Network:  Championing the movement to bring more women investors, companies, and products to the forefront of the cannabis industry. They empower each other with facts, conversations, mentorship, and deal flow.

Women Who Code: It's mission is to inspire women to excel in technology careers.

WomenTech Network: Making a difference in the world by enabling women's empowerment in tech through leadership development, professional growth, mentorship and networking events for professionals.

Supporting Women Entrepreneurs

The Helm Shop: Shop a collection of products from Black female founded companies.

Radical Girl Gang: The online marketplace to discover, support and shop from emerging women-owned brands.

Giving Back - Building the Next Generation

/dev/color: A non-profit organization that aims to maximize the impact of Black software engineers.

A Mighty Girl: The world's largest collection of books, toys and movies for smart, confident, and courageous girls 

All Star Code: A nonprofit computer science education organization focused on motivated Black and Latino young men. 

Black Girls Code: The non-profit's vision is to increase the number of women of color in the digital space by empowering girls of color ages 7 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures through exposure to computer science and technology. To provide African-American youth with the skills to occupy some of the 1.4 million computing job openings expected to be available in the U.S. by 2020, and to train 1 million girls by 2040.

Bold Venture Partners: An organization dedicated to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship to underrepresented students.

Code.org: A non-profit dedicated to expanding participation in computer science. 

Collective Society 360 (CA): A not for profit organization geared towards career and entrepreneurial development for youth in the Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities. 

Color Stack: ColorStack’s mission is to increase the entrance, retention and success of Black, Latinx, and Native American college students in computing.

Girls for Technology: Girls For Technology, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization after-school program committed to closing the gender gap within STEM fields one girl at a time. We provide after-school, summer enrichment programs, and workshops for under-served, under-represented adolescent girls ages 11-17 in Greater Hartford, CT.

Girls Who Code: Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in technology and to change the image of what a programmer looks like and does.

Girls Who Invest (“GWI”): A non-profit organization founded in April 2015 dedicated to increasing the number of women in portfolio management and executive leadership in the asset management industry.

Global Black Youth (GBY): Convenes, invests and amplifies the reach and impact of the most cutting edge solutions generated by young Black innovators and entrepreneurs on a global scale. 

Hack.Diversity: A non-profit program to identify, support and train young engineers of color and help them secure jobs at the top innovation economy companies.

INTech Camp for Girls: A nonprofit whose mission is to inform and inspire girls to innovate in the technology industry.

Kapor Center: The Kapor Center is building a future where the tech industry makes a positive impact on culture, society and the economy. 

Kids in Tech: Kids in Tech addresses the growing STEM skill deficit amongst elementary and middle school kids by partnering with school districts and youth development agencies to provide hands-on learning projects in technology.

National Center for Women and Information Technology: A non-profit coalition that works to increase diversity in IT and computing. NCWIT focuses on improving diversity across the entire spectrum: K-12 through college education, and on to academic, corporate and entrepreneurial careers.

SMASH: Provides an intensive and holistic STEM-focused education to dedicated students of color who seek equal access to college and career readiness resources. 

Street Code Academy: Provide historically economically disadvantaged people of color in our community with the high-tech skills, confidence, and access to networks needed to enter the technology industry.

The Female Lead: The UK-based Female Lead is an educational charity created by loyalty and data entrepreneur, Edwina Dunn. The Female Lead aims to make women’s stories more visible, and to provide positive role models for future generations by celebrating women's achievement, endeavour and diversity.

The Hidden Genius Project: A program to connect young black males with the skills, mentors, and experiences that they need to become high-performing entrepreneurs and technologists in a 21st century global economy.

TechTogether: Led by Fiona Whittington, the organization's mission is to create safe spaces for gender-marginalized youth to build, learn, and hack on projects. Their aim is to increase the gender-diversity and inclusivity of the hackathon community.

Job and Recruiting Marketplaces

Black and Latinx community looking to land careers in tech or startups: A Google list.

Black Tech Pipeline: A service based platform bringing exposure, resources and opportunities to Black technologists, and our allies.

ExitUp: A curated list of fresh job descriptions delivered to your inbox every week.

Hire Black: Helping Black women get hired, trained, or promoted.

Hire Black Female Creatives: Black photographers, art directors, hair stylists, copywriters, graphic designers, and UX/UI designers.

Hustle Crew Job Board: Job opportunities via Hustle Crew.

Incluzion: Incluzion is a community of Black & Latinx professionals working remotely & flexibly. 

POCIT Jobs: Jobs for People of Color in tech.

Resilient Coders: Training people of color for high growth careers as software engineers, and connecting them with jobs.

The Minority Pivot: A weekly newsletter curating the best opportunities at early-stage startups for minorities curated by Timi Dayo-Kayode.

The Mom Project: A digital talent marketplace and community that connects professionally accomplished women with world-class companies.

WiST Network: The only comprehensive career and networking hub for women in the sports tech business.

Women Back to Work: help companies that value diversity and inclusion hire career-ready returners with technical backgrounds. 

WomenTech Network Job Board: Job opportunities via the WT Network.

PR and Marketing Opportunities

CommerceNext Retail and eCommerce Events Nomination Form: We would like to help create visibility for Black individuals by identifying a list of potential speakers from the Black community that can speak on retail-related topics. With the permission of the individuals, we will share our list with other conference organizers to help broaden the reach.

Innovation Women: A self-service database of female subject matter experts. It connects these experts to speaking and media opportunities.

Inspiring 50: Inspiring Fifty is a pan-European programme that aims to increase diversity in the technology sector by making inspiring role models more visible.

Events

3rd Annual Black In Tech Summit (February 16, 2021): For Black leaders, entrepreneurs, and allies in tech who support and invest in diversity and inclusion.

4YFN (June 28 - July 1, 2021): A big startup event in Barcelona.

Afro Future Summit 2021: Summit curating an active network of black futurists, investors, tech entrepreneurs, celebrities, politicians and business moguls. 

Afrotech World: Afrotech Conference 2021 (Nov. 8 - 13th, 2021).

Female Founders Summit (February 17, 2021): Organized by For Now, this is a virtual gathering of female entrepreneurs looking to learn from, inspire, and connect with one another.

SHEleader@digital (Bulgaria): An annual international conference taking place in Sofia, Bulgaria that provides a platform for focused discussion on the women’s role in the digitally connected world in transformation we are living in. 

WomenTech Global Conference 2021 (June 7 - 11): Celebrate 100 000 Women in Tech Driving Change with Purpose and Impact

Special Offers

• Shoobx: "A full year of Shoobx to all founders whose identities are not yet adequately represented in the startup ecosystem."
• Tech for Black Founders: List of companies free or discounted software products to Black founders (e.g., Notion, dialpad, Amplitude)

Lists of Leaders and Influencers

• January 2021 Underrepresented Founders by KingsCrowd.
• 2019: Power 200: Black & Latinx Venture Capitalists You Should Know (Harlem Capital)
• 2019: 100 Latina Founders (AllRaise)
• Top 100 Most Influential Latinas 2020
• HITEC 100 most influential Hispanic leaders in technology 2020
• 101 Black Tech Titans
• 2018 List of Black Leaders in Tech
• 2017 List of Black Men in VC by Aaron McClendon
• Black Sales Leaders by Jacob Gebrewold via Sales Hacker Weekly. Here is how you can help his work.

Data and Insights

2020 Market Review of Woman and Minority-Owned Private Equity and Venture Capital Firms by Fairview Capital.

2019 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Capital Factory

Center for Policing Equity: As a research and action think tank, Center for Policing Equity aims to provide leadership in equity through excellence in research. Using evidence-based approaches to social justice, we use data to create levers for social, cultural and policy change. 

The Black Report: "The first qualitative report on Black startup founders in the UK."

Briter Bridges: Building the knowledge infrastructure that informs businesses and leaders across underserved markets.

The Diversity Gap and Opportunity in Venture Capital by AVG Basecamp Sr. Principal Marco Casas

The Fan Project: The Fan Project is dedicated to creating equality and opportunity in sports. The problem? Women's sports don't receive enough media coverage, investment, or sponsorship dollars. The solution? Your social media data.

Africa Investment Report 2020 by Briter Bridges.

NEVCA Diversity Archives

Netflix Inclusion Report 2021

Research: VCs, Founders, and the Performance Gender Gap by Sahil Raina from the University of Alberta (Pub Date Dec. 19, 2019).

News, Trends, and Opinion

Afrotech: Entrepreneurship, tech industry insights, jobs.

Blavity Inc.: The home to the largest network of platforms and lifestyle brands serving the multifaceted lives of black millennials.

Blavity News: News, media, business, and culture.

BrainPint: A newsletter curated by Janel Loi with interesting reads, tools & learning resources sent out weekly to make you smarter.

Femstreet: One of the best newsletters for women in tech and venture capital.

For Colored Girls Who Tech: A weekly newsletter for Black and Brown women highlighting entrepreneurship and venture capital in the tech echosystem.

Impact Alpha: Essential news and insights to keep ahead of the curve on impact investing and sustainable finance.

The Lily: Elevating critical stories about women and gender.

The Line Black Entrepreneur: Techstars' blog about Black founders.

Lioness Magazine: The go-to news source for everything female entrepreneur.

MBN USA: Minority Business News. Their mission is to support and promote MBE suppliers as well as celebrate the leading corporations and diversity champions who advance the cause of supplier diversity.

POCIT - People of Color in Tech: The stories of People of Color in tech.

UrbanGeekz: A groundbreaking video-centric African American, Latinx, and multicultural digital news platform focused on technology, business, science, and startups.

Women 2.0: A company focused on gender, diversity and inclusion in the tech and startup spaces. Serving over 300,000 through content, programming, products and services.

Women's Enterprise USA: Women’s Enterprise magazine (WE USA) is the nation's foremost quarterly print and digital publication supporting Women's Business Enterprises (WBEs) and supply chain inclusion.

Podcasts

Afrotech Podcast: Black techies with a passion for capital.

eduardo.live: Podcast about life, work, technology, culture, wellbeing, diversity, inclusion, and other related topics by Eduardo Ibacache Rodriguez and friends.

Grit and Grind: Stories of underrepresented founders building innovative startups.

techish: About the intersection of tech, pop culture, and life.

Startup Life with Ande Lyons: On her podcast and live show, startup coach Ande Lyons interviews founders and gives actionable advice. She's a DE&I champion and is actively involved in the community to support underrepresented founders.

The Reconstruction (TR): Learning from history to create opportunities for equitable wealth-building

Women who Build: A podcast hosted by Shreya Bakliwal, where she brings out the stories of women startup founders and venture capitalists.

Books

Allies and Advocates: Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Culture by Amber Cabral.

Dream Big. Hustle Hard.: The Millennial Woman's Guide to Success in Tech by Abadesi Osunsade.

The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, & Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self by Katty Kay.

The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance---What Women Should Know by Katty Kai.

WTF Is Happening: Women Tech Founders on the Rise by Nisa Amoils.

Interesting Articles

• Article: Aussie VCs leading on gender diversity, but there's a long way to go
• Article: Berlin’s black tech workers face discrimination
• Article: Where Latinx Founders Can Find Funding, Resources, and More (Lolita Taub)
• Article: Investing in Women Isn't a $&*#! Charity
• Article: The startup world needs a Black Minds Matter awakening
• Article: Don’t Ask Investors to Change. Change Policy.
• Article: Venture capital firms to include "diversity riders" in term sheets
• Article: Black Founders Matter, a fund focused on Black entrepreneurs, makes first investment. 
• Article: About Blck VC
• Article: How to Foster Inclusivity at Your Company
• Article: 75 Things You Can Do For Racial Justice
• Article: Anti-Racism for Beginners
• Article: Example Lesson Plan on Being an Ally
• Article: HBR Toward a Racially Just Workplace
• Article: How Black Girls RUN! Began a Community-Powered Movement
• Article: Girls' Confidence Plummets Starting at Age 8: Here's How to Keep Her Confidence Strong
• Article: Cultural Dysfunction: The Lack of Women in VC (Bussgang - 2014)
• Article: How We Can Beat Venture Capital's Diversity Problem
• Article: I'm A Black Founder — Here's My Advice For Other Black Founders Raising Venture Capital
• Article: Diversity As $uperpower: The (Well-Known) Data Against Homogeneous Teams In Venture Capital
• Article: Aurelie Helouis of infinityQ Technology On Why We Need More Women Founders
• Article: Dr Roshawnna Novellus of EnrichHER On Why We Need More Women Founders
• Article: The Unfortunate Truths Of Fundraising While Black

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Change Log:

1. 01/23/2021: Added - One Way Ventures, Beyond the Billion. (2)
2. 01/24/2021: Added section "Giving Back - Building the Next Generation". Added - The Female Lead, Girls for Technology, Women in AI, WaiACCELERATE, RareBreed Ventures, FinRise by Plaid, Astia, Reinventure Capital, January Ventures, MATR Ventures, Unshackled Ventures, Mission Investors Exchange, and Citi Impact Fund. (14)
3. 01/25/2021: Added - Female Founder Collective, Harbinger Ventures, Black Ambition Prize, Golden Seeds, Rethink Capital, BBG Ventures, Equal Opportunity Ventures, ImpactAssets 50, Diversity in U.S. Startups Report. (8)
4. 01/26/2021: Added - Halogen Ventures, Backstage Capital, Backstage Crowd, Female Founders Fund, RISE by Sundara Fund, Forerunner Ventures, Belle Capital, Springboard Enterprises, Women's Venture Capital Fund, Femstreet, Pipeline Fellowship, WEConnect International. (12)
5. 01/27/2021: The list it turning global. Reorganizing by separating content and adding new sections: "Funding - General Data Sources and Lists", "Funding - U.S.", "Funding - Africa", "Funding - Matching Platforms". Added - Foundernest, Dazzle Angels, Rising Tide Africa, First Check Africa, Female Founders Summit, Shecluded. (6)
6. 01/28/2021: Reorganized/added sections: "Podcasts", "Books", "Interesting Articles", "Data". Added - Women of the World Endowment, Innovation Women, Lioness Magazine, POCIT Jobs, Women 2.0, The Lily, The 2021 Guide for Female Entrepreneurs, The Minority Entrepreneurship Institute, Girl Code, Blavity Inc., Blavity News, Afrotech, Afrotech Podcast, Afrotech World, Grit and Grind, MGV Capital Group, digitalundivided, Women in Sports Tech, WiST Network, Investors of Color Network, Latino Business Action Network (LBAN), FI Black American Startup Resource List. (22)
7. 01/29/2021: Added - The Inspire Network, Article: Aurelie Helouis of infinityQ, wiseHer, GGC, The Female Influencer, EnrichHER, Article: EnrichHER, Waking the unConscious, femmebought, The Fourth Floor, Products by Women, Get Sh!t Done, FLIK, Female Founded Club, IFundWomen, NVCA, SheWorx, Netflix Inclusion Report, Netflix Inclusion Report 2021, Movemeback, Afro Future Summit. (22)
8. 01/30/2021: Added - Hustle Crew, Hustle Crew Job Board, Book: "Dream Big. Hustle Hard", RBL1, Diverse Investors List by Founders for Change, Founders for Change, List: No Warm Intro Required, Amplifyher Ventures, Bumble Fund, Black Girl Ventures, New Voices Fund, New Voices Foundation, Merian Ventures, Jumpstart Focus Fund, Intel Diversity Fund, Rethink Impact, Data: "The Diversity Gap and Opportunity in Venture Capital", Basecamp Fund. (18)
9. 01/31/2021: Added - Amplify Latinx, SheEO, FounderTribes, Slauson & Co, Prospanica. (4)
10. 02/01/2021: Added - Impact Alpha, 1863 Ventures, 1863 Fund, Ureeka, Diversity UK, Impact of Diversity (Germany), The Reconstruction podcast. (7)
11. 02/02/2021: Added - Ventures Platform, seedstars, Podcast: Women who Build, Inspiring 50, List: Black Sales Leaders, Black Women Talk Tech, For(bes) The Culture, Brown Girl Magazine, Black Founders Fund, Google for Startups Black Founders Fund, Goodie Nation, Pledge LA. (12)
12. 02/03/2021: Added - Connected Women, On Deck Access Fund, BrainPint, Book: Allies and Advocates, The Line Black Entrepreneur, Worklife Ventures, Acrew Capital, Inspired Capital, The Fan Project, Cleo Capital, Moxxie Ventures, Renegade Partners, Blossom Capital, F7 Ventures, Leadout Capital, Wave Capital, EforAll, Color Stack, HBCUvc, TechTogether, GreenTech Noir, VCFamilia, LatinxVC, Girls Who Invest, GenZ VCs, Briter Bridges, Newsletter: For Colored Girls Who Tech, Confluence.vc, Bold Venture Partners, GHX Capital, RevUp Capital, List: January 2021 Underrepresented Founders by KingCrowd, Startup Life, Beta Boom, Founder Gym, Product South, ExitUp. (34)
13. 02/04/2021: Added - Kids in Tech, Ada Ventures, First Close Partners, Center for Policing Equity. (4)
14. 02/05/2021: Added - Data: 2019 DE&I Report from The Capital Factory, 3rd Annual Black In Tech Summit, DivInc, Black Founders, List: Europe's Top 30 Young VCs, Atomico Angel Programme, AI Paths, Top Tier Impact. (8)
15. 02/06/2021: Added - Together Digital, Boston Business Women, Los Digitales, Podcast: eduardo.live, Female Founder Initiative, WomenTech Network, WomenTech Job Board, WomenTech Global Conference 2021, Women's Inclusion Network (Arcview), The Violet Society, Mulheres Elétricas, Own Trail, SHEleader@Digital, Gender Fair, Women Back to Work, African Women on Board, WeTheChange, Female Founded Club, SheProfitsAfrica, The Next Women (NL), Athena Alliance, Women Who Code, UrbanGeekZ, Black Female Founders, Changing Tides Movement, Chloe Capital, The Mom Project, The Guild, 4YFN, DYVVYD, Global Women in VC. (27)
16. 02/07/2021: Added section "Supporting Women Entrepreneurs"; Added - She Means Business Incubator, Investors of Color Network, Seae Ventures, Global Black Youth (GBY), Scale Investors (AUS), One Ventures (AUS), AirTree Ventures (AUS), Artesian (AUS), Research: "VCs, Founders, and the Performance Gender Gap", Jane Walker First Women Grant Program, Radical Girl Gang, National Center for Women and Information Technology, Article: Aussie VCs and Diversity. (13)
17. 02/08/2021: Added - PCDN 4.0., Moore Ventures, TuesdayNights, Pivotal Ventures, Equality Can't Wait Challenge, Collective Society 360 (CA), Panoramic Ventures, SMASH, Street Code Academy, INTech Camp for Girls, The Hidden Genius Project, /dev/color/, All Star Code, Kapor Center, Code.org, List: The UK Most Active Angel Investors (2021), Frontline. (15)
18. 02/09/2021: Added - Black American Startup Resource List: 742+ Accelerators, Incubators, Investors, and more (2021 Update). (1)
19. 02/12/2021: Added Finclusive Ventures, European Digital Society, Warrior Women Network, Series Q, Founders of the Future, Women in Immersive Technologies Europe. (6)
20. 02/13/2021: Added - Flatirons Fund, The Minority Pivot, Women's Enterprise USA, MBN USA. (4)
21. 02/14/2021: Added - Urban Labs, W Collective, Venturecapital.org, Women Tech Council. (4)
22. 02/15/2021: Added - Amex Ventures. (1)
23. 02/20/2021: Added - The Helm, The Helm Shop. (2)
24. 03/03/2021: Added - DiverseCity Ventures, TFE Pledge (2) (249 items added since first publishing date)