Local Entrepreneurs Receive $150K Google Grants for Tech Startups | Latino Voices | Chicago News
Starting a business from scratch takes a lot of work — not to mention capital. A startup initiative from Google is helping Black and Latino entrepreneurs reach their goals. This year, five Chicagoans were awarded $150,000 each for their startups. The winners include Certiverse, an online exam development system; Speeko, a speech
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Black and Latino startup founders receive just 5% of New York’s venture capital funding: Crunchbase report
The Crunchbase data shows similar disparities in the companies those investors choose to back. Black and Latino founders have raised about $15 billion in the past five years, representing just 2.4% of the total venture funding raised by startups in the U.S. In the San Francisco Bay Area, the only U.S. market