In the year since Jay Bailey has taken over at the Herman J. Russell Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a business-building incubator that aims to broaden opportunity for minority residents, the native Atlantan entrepreneur has been busy. RCIE occupies a 50,000 square foot campus in Castleberry Hill, a rapidly-growing downtown neighborhood adjacent to the much-talked-about Gulch […]
In a nondescript auditorium at Morehouse College, two dozen entrepreneurs pitched their growing or recently-formed startup concept to a room of investors, community members, and supporters. Last week’s event looked just like any other of the countless Demo Days that take place across the country, except for one thing: every founder on-stage was an underrepresented […]
Black Tech Planet has announced the first ever Atlanta Black Tech Week (ABTW), a week-long celebration where Atlanta’s tech community comes together to discuss the Black tech ecosystem. The conference, held August 29-Sept. 1, will bring together tech leaders, entrepreneurs, investors and technologists to highlight diverse founder-led companies and explore how to redefine more effective funding models […]
A report, released today, by an Atlanta-based startup incubator focused on Black and Latinx female entrepreneurs found that, while black women founders are still funded at disproportionally low amounts, funding has increased substantially in the past year. The research also showed that the number of black female founders who have raised at least $1 million […]