From credit card companies to cosmetic companies, these seven women of color are diversifying entrepreneurship by not only changing the marketplace but also by creating innovative product offerings as solutions to problems. Black women have become the fastest growing entrepreneurial demographic. They own almost 60 percent of black businesses, and that number is only going to increase.
Women of Color Are Diversifying Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley & Beyond
Lisa Skeete Tatum, co-founder and CEO of Landit.
Lisa created the technology platform to help women in the workplace find greater success and allow companies to recruit, develop, and retain a diverse pool of talent.
Heather Hiles, founder and former CEO of Pathbrite.
Heather raised $12M in venture capital (to-date, the highest amount raised by a black woman) and developed the very first cloud-based platform. Pathbrite currently has five million Millennials utilizing the platform to create custom portfolios to enhance everything from college applications to professional portfolios.
Morgan DeBaun, founder & CEO of Blavity.
Morgan created the online platform as a tech and media company to be a space by and for black Millennials to pursue their passions and change the world while doing so.
Marah Lidey, co-founder and co-CEO of Shine.
Marah developed the app to make wellbeing more accessible and help users live with intention and purpose.
Kristina Jones, co-founder of CourtBuddy.
Kristina developed a company that helps match users with lawyers-on-demand for a la carte legal services based on their budget.
Sherisse Hawkins, co-founder and CEO of Pagedip.
Sherisse came up with an online tool to help users develop interactive content.
Etosha Cave, founder of Opus 12.
Etosha was looking for a way to reduce the carbon emissions footprint. Opus 12 was created to turn CO2 into usable chemicals like methane, ethylene, and ethanol using renewable electricity and water, making their process carbon neutral (and even carbon negative) for some outputs.
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