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Startup Resource List - Black Americans - Community list of organizations helping black founders build

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A comprehensive list of 200+ Accelerators, Incubators, Investors, and more with a focus on helping Black American founders start and build businesses.

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Great resource Jonathan and the Founder Institute team!
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Hi everyone, We created this resource back in February (for Black History Month) because only one percent of venture capital-backed tech companies are founded by black and African American entrepreneurs. Hopefully it can be a helpful resource for any Black American founder trying to build a startup, no matter their stage. This is a work in progress and it is intended to be a community project, so there is also a Google Doc where anyone can submit comments or new resources: . You can read more about the Startup Ecosystem Canvas project at (we have resource lists for over 100+ cities/ regions at ). Sincerely, Jonathan
This is great!
Cool resource! Congrats FI team!
Awesome resource. Thanks.
Really useful, many thanks
Nice, thanks for putting this together.
An important resource. Many thanks FI team.
I'd suggest adding Community Development Financials Institutions (CDFIs) to this list. CDFIs are private financial institutions that are 100% dedicated to delivering responsible, affordable lending to help low-income, low-wealth, and other disadvantaged people and communities join the economic mainstream. Basically, they provide loans to small businesses which typically cannot receive traditional bank loans. The OFN has this page which helps you find a CDFI local to you
This is #Amazing ... would love to collaborate on a simliar project! Also, please consider supporting my newsletter. I'll share this resource in the upcoming issue!