Up to £23 million in government funding will create more AI and data conversion courses, helping young people from underrepresented groups including women, black people and people with disabilities join the UK’s world-leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) industry. Up to two thousand scholarships for master AI conversion courses, which enable graduates to do further study courses in the field even if their undergraduate course is not directly related, will create a new generation of experts in data science and AI. The UK has a long history in AI, from codebreaker Alan
Luke Cooper, an established founder who spent years growing a Baltimore startup before selling it to a Fortune 500 company, is now starting a venture capital fund to support underserved Black founders. He aims to address the legacy of divestment from Black communities in the city of West Baltimore. The fund will invest in startups working within the insurance, cybersecurity, fintech, frontier enterprise, and healthcare-related technology industries. “As one of the only VC-backed Black founders here, it made me unique but it also made it super difficult,” Cooper told Technical.ly. “Even after a
Motown Records and Google have announced a partnership in pursuit of elevating women of color within the music industry. The Motown Records Creator Program Supported by Google will find and fund the next outstanding woman content creator, videographer, or creative producer/director and offer an opportunity to collaborate with Motown Records’ executives and its roster of artists, including TianaMajor9. According to the announcement, the initiative aligns with Motown’s commitment to shattering barriers for talented creatives and continues Google’s ongoing mission to amplify underrepresented voices in entertainment and ensure diverse, equitable representation in
On Wednesday, a California state agency filed a lawsuit accusing Tesla Inc of tolerating discrimination against Black workers at an assembly plant, mirroring claims in several other pending cases against the electric-car maker, the Wall Street Journal reported. The California agency said that it had received “hundreds of complaints from workers” and found evidence that the Fremont factory is a “segregated workplace where black workers are subjected to racial slurs and discriminated against in job assignments, discipline, pay and promotion creating a hostile work environment,” said the agency’s director, Kevin Kish,
In a post made on the company’s official website, it was revealed that the United States-born, Senegal-raised Ly is the third principal to join the team through their open search process. Abdul Ly has a background working at Google. He was also at First Round Capital and Index Ventures as an investor and before getting into VC – he also worked at Blend as a product manager focusing on consumer banking software. “At Initialized, we don’t evaluate founders based on education level or work credentials,” wrote the company in its official announcement. Speaking on their first impressions, the
Participants study programming and problem-solving for four months, earn $250 a week, and become paid apprentices with partner employers. The initiative came during the pandemic when millions were left jobless and this predicament spurred millions more to reconsider their careers, Catalyte and vocational training nonprofit Baltimore Corps saw a heightened need — and an opportunity — for tech programs. Lily Tilden, since hired by the city health department as a full-time employee, was among a dozen rookie software developers who worked for the city in what would become the inaugural fellowship
When Nicholas Cave, from South London, isn’t in the front seat of an Uber, he’s fronting his own business. The 31-year-old based in Carshalton has transformed his original Uber side hustle into a massive opportunity. He was one of 76 Uber drivers and couriers awarded a ‘Business Builder’ grant as well as mentorship and training as part of a partnership between Uber and Enterprise Nation to encourage the development of start-up businesses amongst drivers. Last year he had the opportunity to showcase his business at a pop-up store in Oxford Street. But
To help support the progression of Black talent, Braze teamed up with other leading technology providers including Amplitude, Branch, mParticle, and Radar back in 2020 to offer free software to early-stage startups led by Black founders. Now, the American cloud-based software company based in New York City is pleased to announce the expansion of Tech for Black Founders (T4BF) with the introduction of 15 new grants. To be eligible for consideration, interested participants must be a Black founder based in EMEA or the US with a company that has fewer than
Crime Stoppers of Flint & Genesee County received an international award for using technology to help solve local crimes. The organization, led by its director Jule Lopez, uses location-based advertising and public service announcements. It’s Morden way of tracking and solving crime made it the winner of the 2021 Crime Stoppers International Digital Media Award in the category for programs serving 300,000 to 1 million people. Back in 2019, Flint and Genesee County became the first Crime Stoppers program in the country to utilize “geofencing” technology with OUTFRONT, an outdoor
The Latinx Technology and Community Center has been awarded more than $600K in funding to renovate its second floor, part of its larger plans to create a Latinx district in Flint. To aid in this renovation, the C.S Mott Foundation has given the tech center a grant of $575,000 which was complemented by a grant of $40,000 from the Community Development Block Grant program. It comes after the tech center released a list of projects aiming to beautify both the center’s building and the handful of city blocks surrounding it
