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Podcast: The Compassionate Capitalist™ Show with Karen Rands
Episode: Zane Ventures - Access to Startup Capital for Diverse Founders With Shila Nieves
Description: Just 1.2% of the record $137 billion invested in US startups in the first half of 2021 went to Black entrepreneurs, and only 2% went to women-founded companies, according to a blog post from Crunchbase. If you aren't familiar with the challenges non-white, non-male founders of startups face getting capital in the United States, these numbers are actually better than they have been in the past. There was a great wakeup call in 2020 to the barriers to capital diverse founders face. Zane Ventures is not new to the party, but they are using this new found corporate and traditional investor consciousnes...