Black Ambition’s Post

🎉 And that’s a wrap! 🙌🏾 Congratulations to Cohort 4 of the Anyone Can Community Startup Program, to each of the graduating founders, who went from idea to action in the space of 6 weeks. All 10 women have built fantastic inventions and innovations in this short space of time. They’re tagged in the photo, please follow and support. 🌎 Watch out, startup ecosystem and the world! 👀 And watch this space for the announcement of the cash prize winners. 🧡A massive thank you to the Victorian Government for funding the second cohort and to Blackbird (Kate Glazebrook, Danielle Pinkus, Meg Williams) for sponsoring one of the cash prizes and hosting us. 🙏🏽 My gratitude to the event team behind the scenes: Lhamo Ma: event management Sharbani Dhar: MC Meg Williams, Morven Brown and Chait D'Cruz: event support (and so much more) Jess D’Cruz: photography Vanessa Valenzuela: videography Chef Aheda: catering 👩🏽⚖️ And of course to our esteemed judges who had the very difficult job of selecting the winners: Tando Matanda Lina Xu Jasmin Jenkins And our sensational mentors and facilitators who honestly gave SO much: Prisca Ongonga-Daehn Emmagness Ruzvidzo Jenna Leo Grace Mugabe CPA GAICD Rachel Yang ☄️ In the space of just two years, we have created an entirely new presence of Black and Women of Colour in the Australian startup ecosystem, as has never been seen before (and we’ve done that alongside launching a technology product advocating for the wellness of and racial justice for women). In creating this program, we didn’t want to be just another D&I program that ticks the boxes, maintains the status quo or waters down the message. If that were the case, truly - who are we to support the next generation of disruptors? If you’re interested in joining / supporting our movement to advance and create equity for Black and Women of Colour founders in Australia, get in touch. Let’s do this thing together 💪🏽 #startups #blackfounders #womenfounders #womenofcolourfounders The Creative Co-Operative

We cannot wait for next month's Female Founders Rise X Liverpool event - which is taking place at the Baltic Ventures HQ 🎉 So if you are a female founder in Liverpool/North West then make sure to join us for a morning of celebration, networking, and inspiring stories from female founders. This event if proving to be super popular and we are almost at capacity, so make sure to register today to snag one of the few remaining spaces - https://lu.ma/FFRLiverpool Please note - This event is for female founders looking to grow businesses, hire teams, and probably in need of some kind of financing or funding along the way (high-growth businesses) We welcome VCs, investors, and ecosystem partners who are supporting female founders in their work but we will prioritise tickets to female founders of growth businesses 💜 This is a Female Founders Rise event in partnership with Lloyds Banking Group Bank and hosted at Baltic Ventures. #event #liverpool #FemaleFounders #tech #startup #founders

Last chance to register for our side events! ⏰ T-10 days to Leuven Slush'D and spots are filling up fast. This week is the last one to register for our side events and places are limited, so head over to our website and don't miss this opportunity.❗️ OCT 11: 🚀 LE(J)ON Kick-off - by Leuvense jonge ondernemers - LE(J)ON OCT 12: 🌮 Investors Lunch (11:00 - 12:45): Your gateway to valuable connections, potential partnerships and insights. 🧭 Navigating the Startup Funding Maze - by The Harbour (15:00 - 16:00): Set your startup on the path to success. 💰 Fundraising in Distressed Times - by Cambrian (17:30-18:30): Insights and practical toolkit to adjust fundraising tactics. 🍷 Founders Dinner (18:45 - 19:45): The perfect convergence for founders and investors. 👉 Hit that registration button now: https://lnkd.in/eEGEDVvp #LeuvenSlushD #sideevents #founders #investors

🔥 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 🔥 At brafe.space, we aim to direct our insights from our own inner development processes, and the profound connections among the multitude perspectives within our community towards a specific question: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 (𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫) 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐨-𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞? One essential way we address this question is by trialing a new approach to funding. We aim to explore how capital needs to flow in order to create space for entrepreneurs and their organizations to evolve. This is why we are super excited to share one of the first Brafe Fundings: Tebalou GmbH. Founded in 2019 by Tebogo Niminde-Dundadengar (she/her) and Olaolu Fajembola (she/her) , Tebalou is a promising e-commerce start-up located in Berlin. The company pursues the vision of an inclusive and diverse society and offers both individual customers and educational institutions a large selection of toys and books that reflect a wide range of diversity criteria. The funding was realized by a group of people within the brafe.space community: Rolf Schroemgens, Joana Breidenbach, Wilfried Gillrath, Petra Becker, Susanna Krueger, Lisa Jaspers, Lilian Breidenbach, Bettina Rollow, Dr. Maximilian Oehl, Finja Carolin Kütz, Hanns-Friedrich Sefranek and Joana Hauff Given the politically and economically tense times, we see this case as an extremely important sign: that a company with such potential, built and run by two Black women, receives the resources and support it needs and deserves to grow successfully and generate impact - precisely where our society so urgently needs it. Congratulations to everyone involved in this exciting happening! 🎉 PS: we couldn't think of a better way to celebrate #internationalwomensday #brafefunding #entrepreneurship #newecosystem #impact #community #fundingnews

You have been reaching out and asking how I am, what's 1000 Black Voices been doing and what are our plans for the year. You noticed! It has indeed been a while since I posted. (Note to self...must catch up with social!) Much love to you all. Warms my heart that you care, wish us all the best and look out for us. Welcome to 2024...and it's nearly month end! 1000 Black Voices has been busy with our founders - a sprint at the end of the year and into this one - with advisory from fantastic industry leaders, founders and investors. This first post of the year has to be a thank you Dami Hastrup MOONHUB, Daniel Glazer Rashad Mohammed Ashmi Bhagani Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Damian Lambkin Fenix Battery Recycling Ltd, Mariana Cubillos British Consulate General, Chuck Goldstone Chuck's Global Entrepreneurial Roundtable, Ian Horne Micky Tesfaye Money20/20, Stewart Noakes Canopy Community, Anthony Rose SeedLegals, Cody Peterson Gunderson Dettmer, Daniel Faloppa Dan G. Equidam, Chinedu Onuchukwu Moses O. Akanmu Joelson, Kenneth Kashif Thomas Investor, Marquis Caines Diversity-X, Arvinder Ubhi Ellis Porter - The Immigration Attorneys, Sarah Downs (F.FISP) Doqaru Limited, Ian Seltzer Pierce Yates Ventures, Mariama Boumanjal Google for Startups, John G. IEEE-CNSV (IEEE Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley) Look out for posts on our sessions and insights gained. For now thank you to you, our mentors and those we are still looking forward to welcoming. #1000BlackVoices #partnerships #ecosystem #collaboration #investors #founders #startups #accelerator #trademission

Nobellum is here again, this time we are bringing ideas to Life using the BIS Summit. The Black Innovation in STEM (BIS) Summit is a platform to empower and connect with startups, investors and business services providers to change these statistics. This online/offline summit is an opportunity for every black Tech startup, talents, and entrepreneurs to scale up 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾 You get to engage with potential partners & investors, as well as gaining exposure to innovative startups, solving important global challenges in health, agriculture, fintech & more; and connecting with prospective employers and fortune 500 companies leading the charge in global innovation. This is not easy to come by! 🔥💪🏽

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Today is the Inaugural #NationalBlackFundingDay in the US! Continue for some stats and a call-to-action. Founded by Dr. Rashae K Barnes, Founder and CEO of Evals Equity Women’s Fund, this day founded to raise awareness (and capital) around the critical need to address equity gaps in funding, education, mentorship and access for Black founders seeking venture capital funding and other forms of monetary investment in their ideas. You don’t need to tell me what can be readily found on the internet, but let me humor us all: According to Crunchbase, Black founders rasied an estimated $2.3 billion in VC funds in 2022. That sounds fantastic! Well, when you consider that VC funding money available in 2022 totaled around $241 billion… 🫠 I probably don’t have to tell you that Black women received only a fraction of that. Around .35% total. I had already learned this from my personal Fairy Black Business Godmentor (in my head) Kathryn Finney of Genius Guild. Now, while I’m all about what today represents, let me be clear: I openly and unambiguously discourage leaping into action without sitting and contemplating deeply what this data is telling you. When it comes to entrepreneurship, Black founders are: ➡️ Systematically excluded ➡️ Systemically undervalued ➡️ Perpetually left to their own devices when their businesses careen towards early closure due to a lack of strategic mentorship and capital This initiative is not to empower folks to pretend that talking about this one day out of the year is going to undo a system that was betting on our failure from jump. It’s a reminder that no matter how little we have had, we have ALWAYS survived. No matter how many times we were told of our inferiority, our individual and collective success has ALWAYS spoken louder. And no matter how many obstacles, setbacks and challenges we have faced… We. Are. Still. HERE. This said, here is Hola Magnolia Identityworks joining the movement with a call-to-action. In honor of National Black Funding Day falling on #SocialSaturday, let’s take a roll call: 1️⃣ Black founders: introduce yourself and your small business or venture in the comments 2️⃣ Non-Black founders and community members: tag some of your favorite Black-owned ventures 3️⃣ VCs, Angels, Grant makers COMMITTED to helping more Black founders develop their ideas and fund their dreams: introduce your opportunity and drop your website in the comments! Amplifying the systemicly silenced is an EVERYDAY job. Here’s your chance to be one of the first to take action in the name of yet another bold new initiative to reverse the course of history. So without further ado… Happy National Black Funding Day!! Onward, network! Let’s make money moves! ✊🏾💫 #BlackLinkedIn #BlackInBusiness #BlacksInTech #VentureCapital #FoundersJourney #OneDaysPay #HolaMagnolia

What better time is it than now to showcase your innovation to investors who would help actualize that dream of yours in the tech industry? No doubt that black entrepreneurs are not as visible as we should be owning to the fact that we are faced with a declining economy and limited resources to actualize these dream. But it's never too late to try again as the Black Innovation in STEM (BIS) Summit organized by Nobellum is the perfect platform to showcase your brilliance to the world! This is an opportunity to present your idea to a captivated audience of investors and industry experts. It’s a moment that could change the course of your entrepreneurial journey forever. But it’s not just about you pitching your startup — It’s about joining a powerful movement that embraces inclusivity and innovation. ✅ It’s about connecting with like-minded individuals, partners and investors who share your passion for using technology to solve global challenges. ✅ It’s about seizing funding opportunities and making your mark on the world. You not only get to showcase your idea and gain investors, you also get to listen to tech professionals and industry experts and learn from them. Participants can access up to $10k in funding through our partnered pitch events. We also provide workshops to help participants develop their pitching skills, prepare investment materials, and learn about venture capital and angel investors. The BIS Summit Is set to change the black tech community. 💪🏾 You can register now and benefit from the FREE early-bird ticket: https://lu.ma/txuwfw67 Once you are done registering, come to me to share you a good news to you, especially regarding our programs that can enable you to access over $10K in funding. Wish you the best as you apply