Sentences with phrase «minority women founders»

Almost all (96 %) minority women founders are very involved in promoting diversity, compared with 59 % of all other founders

Not exact matches

Chris Sacca, founder of Lowercase Capital, explains why there's a lot of money to be made by companies run by minority and women founders.

There is one difference, though (aside from the attendance of the President)-- today's event includes a particular focus on women and minority founders.

The Swiss bank, she says, is fostering connections and goodwill among women, racial - minority and LGBTQ founders to strengthen their overall business community.

We can use the tech sector as an example: when asked why women and minorities are underrepresented in tech startups, 49 % of male founders say that there aren't enough women in the pipeline with another 8 % of male founders blaming low recruitment into college STEM programs.

Brad Feld, founder of Incubator Techstars, estimates that women - led companies now make up around 10 percent of TechStars» portfolio, and that companies led by immigrants or minority entrepreneurs make up another 10 percent — but of course they can only work with what teams choose to apply.

We in the startup world need to continue to work on the inherent bias in current VC models, and make sure many more women and minority founders break into the game.

It holds two pitch series, Spring and Fall, that draw hundreds of applications from women and minority founders across the Southeast.

Women and minority - led startups make up some 40 percent of founders, yet receive less than five percent of funding.

Start Here founder, Steve Rice, along with strategic advisors Dr. Tionna Jenkins, Katie Milligan, and Nate Thomas, presented the Arkansas - based Start Here Initiative as a model for other communities to increase the engagement of women and minorities in the entrepreneurial process and to raise awareness for the entrepreneurial information, resources and training available to new business owners.

The same reason why older founders are ignored by the ecosystem is the same reason why women and other minorities struggle in the Valley: It's really not about what you build, but what you look like while building it.

The night shined a spotlight on women and minority tech founders who are launching startups in Austin.

Jennifer Pozner, founder and executive director of Women In Media & News, emphasized that net neutrality was crucial to ensure that women and minorities could continue to make their voices heard outside the mainstream media through the power of online communiWomen In Media & News, emphasized that net neutrality was crucial to ensure that women and minorities could continue to make their voices heard outside the mainstream media through the power of online communiwomen and minorities could continue to make their voices heard outside the mainstream media through the power of online communities.

· Asheesh Saksena, Senior Vice President, Time Warner Cable · John Sampson, Conference Leader, New York State Senate · Sheldon Silver, Speaker, New York State Assembly · Dean Skelos, Minority Leader, New York State Senate · Rob Simpson, C.E.O., CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity · Jay Snyder, Principal, HBJ Investments, LLC; N.Y.S. Commission for Public Authority Reform · Elinor Tatum, Publisher & Editor - in - Chief, Amsterdam News · Peter Ward, President, New York Hotel & Motel Trades Council, AFL - CIO · Danny Wegman, C.E.O., Wegmans · Sandra Wilkin, Founder & President, Bradford Construction Corporation; President of the Women's Builder Council

Among them were Tarana Burke (founder of the resurgent #MeToo movement), Saru Jayaraman (a workplace justice advocate for restaurant workers), Billie Jean King (tennis champion and founder of the Women's Tennis Association), and Marai Larasi (executive director of Imkaan, the group working to end violence against black and minority woWomen's Tennis Association), and Marai Larasi (executive director of Imkaan, the group working to end violence against black and minority womenwomen).

Women and minorities make up 44 percent of A2J founders, with 24 percent Black or Latinx, 14 percent other minorities, and 12 percent wWomen and minorities make up 44 percent of A2J founders, with 24 percent Black or Latinx, 14 percent other minorities, and 12 percent womenwomen.

Legaltech founders have surprisingly low diversity (as noted, only 5 % are black / Latinx), which is especially problematic given that the justice gap disproportionately affects women, immigrants, and minorities.

Notably, founders of legaltech companies focused on A2J are more likely to be women or minorities.