Pop duo Chloe and Halle Bailey are speaking out against the lack of diversity in the tech sector and advocating the importance of Black girls being on the forefront of the coding sector.
The BECA Playbook aims to challenge the corporate diversity gap and transform the future of business by building the next generation of C-suite marketing executives.
A Black teenager from Prince George’s County, Maryland, has officially become the youngest glider pilot in the nation’s history.
POCIT recently sat down with Bruce Hamilton, 30, and Mario Mitchel, 35, the founders of Mech Ventures, an early to late-stage venture capital firm that invests early in founders building fast-growing technology companies.
Cambridge-based post-seed accelerator Deeptech Labs has announced its autumn deeptech startup cohort.
Black-owned startups will soon have access to billions of dollars, thanks to this latest move by Vice President Kamala Harris.
California’s civil rights regulator is investigating Google’s treatment of Black female workers following alleged incidents of harassment and discrimination, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurship, a firm helping Black entrepreneurs with mentorship and networking, is set to receive a $1 million donation and partnership as it ramps up programming after more than a year of pandemic-related delays. It has now raised more than $34 million from about 48 partners to build out its facilities and resources, CEO Jay Bailey said. And the Global financial technology company Fiserv Inc. (Nasdaq: FISV) is the latest corporate giant to support the center.
And with a more pronounced focus to increase innovative education and close society’s opportunity gap, DeVry University has added two prominent Latina leaders to help in that effort.
Black tech entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom are not shying away from speaking about the difficulties of getting funding from investors. Now they say they have to rely on foreign investors to get their businesses off the ground. When I first heard that this was happening – I wasn’t entirely shocked because this conversation had been long brewing for many years now. Between 2009 and 2019, only 0.24% of all venture capital available to UK startups went to just 38 Black founders, according to Extend Ventures, a non-profit that tracks the
