PC Magazine - USA (2020-04)

As Curated x Kai founder Kai Frazier told PCMag

last year, “Meetings with investors often felt

predatory or extremely condescending. It’s

common to get a ‘no’ because they don’t believe in

your product. I get [them] because they don’t

believe in me as a tech founder.”

Change is needed, full stop, with no excuses. The

solution is simple: Direct funds to the multitude

of more-than-worthy black women founders.

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year, Google named Jewel Burks Solomon as

head of Google for Startups, a newly created role

designed to support diverse startup founders. But

more work needs to be done.

If you’re involved in venture capital, make

yourself familiar with conferences such as Black

Women Talk Tech, get involved in the PitchBlack

pitch competition, seek out the many gatherings

of black women tech entrepreneurs, and listen to

what they need. Then cut some checks to those

who come to you with good ideas.

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