Melisa Ellis , a University of Toronto graduate and founder of the non-profit social and technology enterprise Nobellum, is joining forces with the school to help launch at least 100 Black-owned start-ups by 2025. “I know first-hand what it’s like to be the only Black person working at a tech company,” says Ellis, whose mission to empower underrepresented students in entrepreneurship and STEM subjects also aims to uplift the Black business community at large. “When you’re in the market to hire Black talent or give business to Black vendors, you realize there aren’t
A Toronto-based organization dubbed the Black Professionals in Tech Network is launching a new platform for recruitment, events, and networking to encourage companies to hire Black talent. The network has inked partnerships with many large companies such as Toronto-Dominion Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, and Microsoft since it was founded in 2018. Its membership has now surpassed 50,000 Black workers, primarily across Canada and the United States – up from just 20,000 a year ago. But on Tuesday, it revealed that it would be launching a new global platform called obsidi.com during
