35 Black Googlers Launched Their Own International Angel Investing Group

The Black Angel Group is a collective of angel investors from Google and Alphabet that invests intellectual, social, and financial capital in seed to Series A startups around the world.

Black people continue to be underrepresented among startup investors and founders. According to Crunchbase, Black founders received little over 1% of the $147 billion invested in US startups in 2021.

In the UK, about 3% of London-based founders who received venture capital funding identified as Black, according to a 2019 study from Cornerstone Partners.

The group aims to be part of the change.

It boasts more than 50 members and affiliates across the US and Europe, including Jim Anderson, an MD for Google Cloud, Cassandra Johnson, a VP of customer care, and Rachael Palmer, the company’s head of startup and VC partnerships in EMEA. 

Together, they leverage their collective expertise to find and support entrepreneurs building ethical, high-growth technology companies.

The group has been quietly operating for a year and has already invested around $500,000 in just under a dozen startups, including London-based Audiomob, which specializes in offering audio ads for in mobile games and was founded by ex-Googlers Wilfrid Obeng and Christian Facey.