Check out the 5 companies joining us for our first ever cohort of Backstage London Accelerator programme.

You can check out all the companies from London, Detroit, Philadelphia and LA here.

Humbled to be featured in The Future of Ghana Top30U30. Thank you!!

Kate Jackson left her career in law to realise her lifelong dream of starting a business. She now runs networking enterprise TableCrowd. Great, honest read.

Landit, a market leader in personalised career management, recently announced that it closed $13 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round led by WeWork and backed by investors including NEA, Valo Ventures, Workday Ventures and Gingerbread Capital to name a few.

Foundervine are partnering with Colorintech to offer one aspiring entrepreneur a place on the Immersion Program in Silicon Valley. To apply to the competition, you will need to be working on an idea that uses technology to make an impact - your project can take any form!

They learned to turn their differences into their strengths and capture a $1 million seed round from Steve Case. How Mixtroz Landed $1M with its Mother and Daughter Founders Having No Computer-Science Background

Amazon is helping fund 24 women in the United Kingdom who are interested in tech. The grant will fund 24 women, and each participant will receive £130,000 (about $170,000) a year to fund their startup.

Charles Hudson has raised his second fund for $31m to invest into pre-seed startups. His portfolio has 75 startups to date with a diverse range of founders. Very insightful interview on fundraising and how they deploy capital. Quality strategic read.

We are offering five inspirational women an opportunity to bring to life a technology project that they care about.  The programme includes a £25,000 bursary, support from industry mentors inside and outside of Sky, training and access to Sky’s resources.

Excited to introduce F7 — a new seed investment fund comprised of seven female leaders who met during their tenure at Facebook. 

FP kicked off this year by announcing their first Founders Programme, designed to select a small group of pre-seed entrepreneurs with a strong startup idea and help them achieve their potential. At the end of the process, they will be looking to make a pre-seed investment of £300-500k.

Giving away 2 tickets complimentary for this event. First two emails I receive in response to this newsletter, gets the tickets.

The Lesbians Who Tech summit creates community for folks who can feel marginalised in Silicon Valley.

When it comes to success on a crowdfunding site, race matters.

Rapper and author Akala’s 2018 book, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire, looked at how a young child can turn into a knife-carrying teenager. 

If you’re a person with dark skin, you may be more likely than your white friends to get hit by a self-driving car, according to a new study out of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Faron Paul, 31, has set up a knife amnesty which collects the weapons from teenagers and then gives them to the police without revealing the identity of the original owner. HERO