black startups
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Issa Rae Takes the Plunge Into Tech With Investment in Streaming-Media Data Startup, Streamlytics
Data is big business. Ask Facebook, which has transformed being in your business into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. Looking to cash out on this trend is multi-hyphenate Issa Rae, who Variety reports has become a minority owner in L.A.-based startup Streamlytics, a streaming data, and analytics company founded by tech entrepreneur Angela Benton that aims…
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Turning the Tide: Nonprofit Helps Black Female Entrepreneurs Compete With White Men
Social entrepreneur Alfa Demmellash may be a married mother of two, but she knows the plight of single mothers intimately. Raised in part by a single mother in her native Ethiopia at the height of the devastating Derg regime, Demmellash—who escaped violence that killed family members when she immigrated to the United States at age…