In a few weeks I will be holding a private event for ~7 founders to join me for an evening of discuss
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March 11 · Issue #139 · View online
Your weekly newsletter on minorities in tech, venture and entrepreneurship ๐ซ http://andyayim.com
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In a few weeks I will be holding a private event for ~7 founders to join me for an evening of discussion on building their business (password LA19):ย Click here to sign up. Places are limited, so please sign up now! Also, I am giving away 2 tickets complimentary for the MBTN Accelerating Ideas Conference that I will be speaking at. First two emails I receive in response to this newsletter, gets the tickets!!
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Backstage London Cohort 1
Check out the 5 companies joining us for our first ever cohort of Backstage London Accelerator programme.
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Backstage Accelerator Companies
You can check out all the companies from London, Detroit, Philadelphia and LA here.
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Thanks to @ FutureofGH for including me in the class of 2019 โ๐พ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ ๐
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Humbled to be featured in The Future of Ghana Top30U30. Thank you!!
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Letter to my younger self: your business is your life
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.
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Black Woman-Founded Startup Closes $13M in Series A Funding - Black Enterprise
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.
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Foundervine | An inclusive community for future founders
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! Deadline: 29th March
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This mother and daughter team with no computer-science background left $350,000-a-year-combined jobs to launch a startup and couldn't be happier
They learned to turn their differences into their strengths and capture a $1 million seed round from Steve Case.ย How Mixtroz Landed $1M with its Mother and Daughter Founders Having No Computer-Science Background
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Amazonโs Latest Grant Will Help Increase the Number of Women in Tech - AfroTech
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 receiveย ยฃ130,000 (about $170,000) a year to fund their startup.
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Precursor Ventures just raised a second fund
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.
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Sky Women in Technology
We are offering five inspirational women an opportunity to bring to life a technology project that they care about.ย
The programme includes a ยฃ25,000 bursary, support from industry mentors inside and outside of Sky, training and access to Skyโs resources.
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Introducing F7 โ Kelly Graziadei
Excited to introduce F7 โ a new seed investment fund comprised of seven female leaders who met during their tenure at Facebook.ย
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Revealing the first FP Founders Programme cohort
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 ยฃ300-500k.
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MBTN Accelerating Ideas Conference Tickets, Thu 28 Mar 2019 at 08:00 | Eventbrite
Giving away 2 tickets complimentary for this event. First two emails I receive in response to this newsletter, gets the tickets.
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The Conference Where Diversity in Tech Is Celebrated | WIRED
The Lesbians Who Tech summit creates community for folks who can feel marginalised in Silicon Valley.
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Racial bias matters on crowdfunding sites like Indiegogo, Kickstarter, and GoFundMe
When it comes to success on a crowdfunding site, race matters.
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Akala interview on institutional racism and knife crime
Rapper and author Akalaโs 2018 book, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire, looked at how a young child can turn into a knife-carrying teenager.ย
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Study finds a potential risk with self-driving cars: failure to detect dark-skinned pedestrians - Vox
If youโre 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.
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Father in a one-man crusade to rid streets of knives by swapping blades for JD Sports vouchers | Daily Mail Online
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
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