Oct 19, 2020 | Women In Business
By Lucinda Shen GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) is getting its first black female partner. The Alphabet-backed venture capital firm that has made investments in Slack, Uber, and GitLab promoted Principal Terri Burns to investing partner, a title that grants her...
Oct 12, 2020 | Leadership
By Isabel Togoh JP Morgan Chase & Co, the nation’s biggest bank by assets, on Thursday pledged $30 billion over the next five years in its latest efforts to solve the racial wealth gap made worse by the Covid-19 crisis, and as banking institutions—in the midst of...
Oct 7, 2020 | Starting A Business
By Carlos Garcia Striving to succeed to live the American dream and contributing to the U.S. economy. Fabio Vasco came to the US as a teenager – 15 to be precise. But this story begins well before that. He grew up in Medellin, in the 1970’s, in the middle of the drug...
Sep 28, 2020 | Growing A Business
By Connie Lin Three Black-founded startups will win the investments from VC firm Revolution and Morgan Stanley’s Multicultural Innovation Lab. Since June, as waves of protests rolled from coast to coast, citizens and companies have reckoned with racial politics in the...