We are closing the opportunity gap between early-stage, BIPOC-led startups and VC • Founded by @AnthoniaCarter
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Yesterday, I presented my research at The Racial Equity in Technology Entrepreneurship Workshop at NYU (@centerforcrds).
Thank you to the RETE team for organizing this workshop, and a special thank you to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for sponsoring this event.
Today, we share the fifth and final video in our “Updates on the VC study” series.
In this video, @AnthoniaCarter, our founder, shares another preliminary insight from running the collaborative sessions with VCs and Limited Partners. (1/3)
If you missed the fourth video in the series, you can check it out here: [nitter.cf/egkstarters/status/148…]. (2/3)
Today, we share the fourth video in our “Updates on the VC study” series.
In this video, @AnthoniaCarter, our founder, shares a preliminary insight from running the collaborative sessions with VCs and Limited Partners. (1/2)
Anthonia is making her way through the data analysis and writing up the findings. If you want to know when we release our VC findings report, you can sign up here: [airtable.com/shrb8zxxgew0JwJ…]. (3/3)
Today, we share the fourth video in our “Updates on the VC study” series.
In this video, @AnthoniaCarter, our founder, shares a preliminary insight from running the collaborative sessions with VCs and Limited Partners. (1/2)
If you missed the third video in the series, you can check it out here: [nitter.cf/egkstarters/status/148…]. Next week, we will wrap up this video series by discussing another preliminary insight from the study. (2/2)
Today, we share the third video in our “Updates on the VC study” series.
In this video, @AnthoniaCarter, our founder, discusses the second session with VCs and Limited Partners, a speculative design workshop. (1/2)
Today, we share the third video in our “Updates on the VC study” series.
In this video, @AnthoniaCarter, our founder, discusses the second session with VCs and Limited Partners, a speculative design workshop. (1/2)
If you missed the second video in the series, you can check it out here: [nitter.cf/egkstarters/status/148…]. Stay tuned; there are more videos to come in this series. (2/2)
Today, we share the second video in our “Updates on the VC study” series.
In this video, @AnthoniaCarter, our founder, discusses the first session with investors, a semi-structured interview. (1/2)
Today, we share the second video in our “Updates on the VC study” series.
In this video, @AnthoniaCarter, our founder, discusses the first session with investors, a semi-structured interview. (1/2)
If you missed the first video in the series, you can check it out here: [nitter.cf/AnthoniaCarter/status/…].
Stay tuned; there are more videos to come in this series. (2/2)
We closed out 2021 by wrapping up our first wave of collaborative design sessions with VCs and Limited Partners.
Our founder, @anthoniacarter, gives an update on the project in the video below.
Check out the thread below to get an update from our founder, @AnthoniaCarter, on our ongoing research study with venture capitalists and limited partners. To learn more about the study, visit: egkstarters.com/investors
Over three months ago, I began a qualitative design research study with US-based venture capitalists and limited partners. I sought to understand how diversity (or lack thereof) plays into capital allocation. (1/8)
ALT Photo of Anthonia analyzing data with a text overlay: "Towards an equitable VC landscape: understanding and reducing disparities in VC allocation"
Last week our founder, @AnthoniaCarter, was invited to pitch at @ChloeCapital's Diversity In ClimateTech Showcase as one of the selected Cornell student startup founders.
ALT Diversity In ClimateTech Certificate of Achievement
Anthonia shared our vision and progress towards closing the opportunity gap between Black/brown-led startups and venture capital with an audience of investors and community partners. Thank you, Chloe Capital and Women Entrepreneurs (WE) Cornell, for the invitation.
Please visit our website (egkstarters.com) to learn more about our current initiatives, including our ongoing research study with VCs and Limited Partners to explore new ways to reduce disparities in VC allocation.
Thank you, AL.com, for covering our efforts to support Black and brown-led small businesses in Birmingham, AL become venture ready.
Check out the article (linked below) to learn more about how our founder, @AnthoniaCarter, is helping small business owners to think bigger about the future scale of their companies.
al.com/business/2021/06/birm…
Our dream is to live in a world where more multi-million dollar or billion-dollar “unicorn” companies are founded by Black and brown entrepreneurs. (1/7)
Additionally, we aim to grow our investor network so that together we can brainstorm ways to make early-stage capital investments more equitable. (6/7)
If you would like to learn more about what we do at EGK Starters, please visit our website (egkstarters.com). (7/7)