Meet the 52 Black women who raised $1 million or more in VC funding since 2021
Resilia, a technology platform that provides services to grow nonprofit organizations and helps large foundations deploy capital, raised aResilia was founded by Sevetri Wilson, a serial entrepreneur with a communications background. She said one of her main pain points in raising her seed round was being a Black woman from the South without a network of big tech investors.
In March 2021, the company closed a Series A round for $20 million, led by Kapor Capital and XYZ Venture Capital. To date, the Oakland, California-based brand has raised $30 million.Praxis Labs has partnered with eBay, Zoom, Amazon, Google and Target to build more socially equitable workplaces.Diversity, equity, and inclusion-focused learning and development company Praxis Labs raised a $15.
Tanya Van Court launched Goalsetter in 2016 with the hope of teaching children how to invest and save money. In December 2021, closed a" in 2019; she received an offer from Kevin O'Leary but turned it down. When she raised this issue with the white investors, they said it was too late for them to invest in her since she had too many well-funded competitors, she said."It was a constant struggle of Silicon Valley choosing winners out the gate, and those winners were never Black women."Before Partake Foods, Denise Woodard worked in the venturing and emerging brands unit of The Coca-Cola Company.
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