Just 0.2% of venture capital funding went to Black entrepreneurs in the U.K. between 2009 and 2019, according to Extend Ventures.
more than 800 privately-held tech firms worldwide with a valuation of $1 billion or more.
"We were pretty surprised by this fact," Oliver Kent-Braham, Marshmallow's CEO, told CNBC in an interview.
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