From The Newsletter: Building Upon the Black Unicorn

Why Companies Must Approach The Blockchain With Authenticity, Then Use It Sparingly

ByteChek’s $3 Million Seed Investment From Majority Black Investors Comes As The Industry Grapples With log4j Fallout

Blendoor CEO Stephanie Lampkin On DEI In Finance And Why Measurment Matters

Nine Months After IPO, Compass Posts $1.75 Billion Quarterly Earnings

Training The Next Generation Of Black Investors, WIth Rodney Sampson

Distillery Du Nord Social Spirits Partnership with Delta Increases Black Ownership

Amazon Looks To Provide Capital To Black Sellers With New Lending Partnership With Lendistry

Inside The $15 Million BofA, Mastercard Grants To Develop the Center For Black Entrepreneurship

Weathering COVID-19's Impact on Their Operations, Black Women Tech Ecosystem Leaders Adapt and Adjust

VC Fund Aims to Inspire HBCU Students to Become Next Generation of Investors

This VR Founder Wants to Gamify Empathy to Reduce Racial Bias

This Tech Company Is Trying to Help Homeless People Get IDs

This Founder is Developing Wearable Tech for People Suffering from Neuromuscular Disorders

This Former History Teacher Provides VR Field Trips for Children in Low-Income Communities

These Formerly Incarcerated Entrepreneurs Are Trying to Keep People Out of Prison

The World Needed a New Biodegradable Plastic—We Discovered One at Tuskegee University

The Plug's PRO Member Call: Assessing Atlanta's Black Tech Startups

Substantive or Spectacle? Black Entrepreneurs and Investors Weigh in on the Value of Pitch Competitions for Black Founders

Steve Case’s Rise of the Rest Tour Goes Virtual with $2 Million ‘Equity Edition’ Focused on Black Founders

Resilia Raises $8 million in Series A round, Expands Hiring Across R&D, Sales, and Operations

‘Pose’ Star Angelica Ross is Amplifying the Voices of Transgender Tech Workers

PopCom Raising $1 Million Crowdequity Fund, Places Bets on Future of Shopping through Contact-Less Intelligent Vending

Online Grocery Delivery Service Company Zero Expands To Los Angeles, Growing Its Reach In The Plastic-free Food Market

Inside Compass’ $2 Billion Quarterly Earnings

HBCU@SXSW Presented Its Largest Cohort to Date—Here’s What We’ve Learned

Designing Water: Black Tech Startups Rethink Public Utilities and Social Justice

Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund Delivers on Culture, Minimal Investment into Black-Led Startups

Black Women Founders On Pivoting in the Pandemic and Making Sure They’re Not ‘Tokenized’

25 Black Women Executives with Successful Exits & 25 Who May Be Next

Black Tech Policy Founders Lead The Charge For Increased Civic Engagement And Efficient Policymaking

Black Tech Mobilizes to Beat the Youth 'Summer Slide'

Black Tech Conferences Offer a Lifeline in a Predominantly White Industry

Black Tech Accelerators Keep Pace With Programming Amid Widening Fears of Founders Raising Capital During COVID-19

Black Investors Hold Steady With Investing During COVID-19

Black Innovation Thrives in the UK Despite Low Minority Representation in Tech

Black Founders Embrace Technology to Help Fill the Mental Health Care Gap

Black Digital Bank First Boulevard and Visa Partner to Bridge Racial Wealth Gap with Crypto

Black Coworking Space Operators Brace for Empty Desks, Event Revenue Decline as Virus Shutdowns Expand

Basecamp Barring Political Talk At Work Sent A Message To Black Tech Workers

Atlanta’s ‘Godfather of Tech’ Has Big Ambitions for the Black Mecca

Apple's 2020 Vision for Racial Justice

Aniyia Williams Was Awarded Her First Patent and Now Wants More Founders of Color to Build Hardware

Analysis: Big Tech Financial and Racial Equity Pledges Often Misalign With Actions

An Update To The Black Tech Directory In Time For Black Business Month

Black Investors Develop "Digital Care Packages" and Other Supports to Help Companies Navigate Uncertain Times

PropTech Platform Sweeten Sees Growth where Katerra Failed

The SBA Expands Support for Minority Business Communities and HBCUs With New Women’s Business Centers  

Will.i.am On The Role Of The Black Community To Problem-solve And Shape Its Future Using Technology

How Bee Law is Creating Online Safe Spaces for Geek and Anime Fans with QuirkChat

FilmHedge Promises Investor Protection Through Loan Risk Assessments of Filmmakers Seeking Finance

The Black Marketplace Boom: Ecommerce Companies Are Leveraging The Digital Economy

Twilio’s First Chief Diversity Officer Outlines The Company’s Antiracist Approach

PropTech Platform Sweeten Sees Growth where Katerra Failed

Tracking the Value of IoT: How These Entrepreneurs are Unlocking the Power of Connected Devices

A Black Haircare Hardware Designer Bets It All On Solving For Wash Day

As The Travel Sector Rebounds, Agility Could Mean Renewed Success For Travel Tech Founders

A Closer Look At The First Recipients of Goldman Sachs' One Million Black Women Fund

Shopify Partners with Operation HOPE to Help One Million Black Businesses Go Digital

Zirtue Secures $4 Million Seed Funding To Offer Alternative To Predatory Lenders

SVOD Services kweliTV, BlackOakTV Place Bets on U.S. Subscriber Revenue Growth, Slower International Market Expansion

Davyeon Ross On How R/GA’s Coalition Venture Studios Will Move The Needle For Black Founders

Black-led Insurance Marketplace Zing Health Expands a New Model For Medicare

Black Indie Game Developers Gain A Stake In The Multi-billion Dollar Industry

Harlem Capital’s $134 Million Second Fund Raise Brings Better Terms And Bigger Checks

How MaC Ventures Raised One Of The Largest Funds Among Majority Black VCs

The Founder Recycling The Waste From The $162 Billion Electric Vehicle Boom

How Growing Black-led Companies Are Handling WFH A Year Later And The Covid-19 Vaccine

The Problem with Positioning Black Fund Managers as Saviors of Black Business

Is Equity Crowdfunding The Solution For Founders Of Color Looking To Raise Capital?

BlocPower’s $63 Million Series A Demonstrates Black Tech Founders’ Opportunity to Tackle Climate Change

Fintechs Bridging Underbanked Americans to Financial Service

Motley Fool Ventures Taps 13 Firms to Expand Investments into Underrepresented Founders

From $100 Million MaC Ventures To Newcomer RareBreed Ventures, VCs Say These Factors Will Dominate Deals In 2021

Decision-Making App NewNew Selected for Snapchat's Yellow Collabs Partnership Program

Google For Startups Black Founders Fund Awards $5MM to 76 Companies

Undock Raises $1.6 Million for Its Software to Make Virtual Meetings Less Terrible

CapWay Delays Debit Card Launch to Late Summer, Braces for Increased Post-Pandemic Needs for the Unbanked

Calendly Prepares for Growth, Ongoing Hiring, Amid National Tech Company Layoffs

An Updated Measure of Black-Owned Coworking Spaces Across the U.S.

Black Digital Platform Creators Cash in on Connecting Users to Social Capital

NewME Bootcamp Lands $1.2 Million to Train 100 Black Founders in 2020

For First-Time Black Startup Investors, PopCom’s Crowdequity Campaign Offers Bridge

3 Black Startups on Why They Failed