Gabby Cazeau, Principal at Harlem Capital, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Harlem Capital is a venture capital firm with a core mission to invest in a thousand diverse founders (including Chicago’s very own CASHDROP) over 20 years and change the faces of entrepreneurship. Gabby shares her journey from intern to Principal at Harlem Capital…
There’s a lot of work to do before we see gender equity in business and entrepreneurship. That vast majority of venture capital funding is given to startups led by men — only 2.2 percent of VC money raised in 2018 went to female founders. While the number of Fortune 500 CEOs hit an all-time high…
Chicago Blend survey confirms VCs are, unsurprisingly, overwhelmingly white and male. It’s no secret that tech and venture capital, like most industries, are suffering from a lack of diversity within their ranks. Insiders and outsiders alike have been exposing the negative consequences of that homogeneity, from Susan Fowler’s memo on Uber’s toxic culture, to…
Earlier this year, WeSolv founder and CEO Stella Ashaolu was asked during an interview which tech mogul she’d most like to have in her corner: Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos. Understandably, Stella didn’t love the premise of having to choose her hero from one of three white guys (she eventually settled on…
“When I started, there were no black female founders in Chicago that readily came to mind, to whom I could go to for advice,” said Stella Ashaolu, founder and CEO of WeSolv. Her three-year-old Chicago-based startup is reducing hiring bias by providing opportunities for MBA students to solve real-world challenges for top companies.…
Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core founder, Eboo Patel opens Technori’s Education Tech startup showcase with an unforgettable keynote address on how interfaith cooperation and community service can build understanding between different communities and contribute to the common good.