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2019 Scale-Up Pitch Challenge winner Neu is rising to the occasion to increase opportunities for domestic workers. Learn more about the current reality domestic workers face and the tech company, Neu, that is building equity by empowering domestic working women.
Daymond John, the founder and CEO of FUBU and co-star of ABC’s four-time Emmy Award-winning show “Shark Tank,” just wrapped up…
2020 Scale-Up Pitch Challenge semi-finalist Erica Plybeah of MedHaul and 2019 Scale-Up Pitch Challenge 1st place winner Javier Evelyn of Alerje are recipients of the 2020 Google for Startups Black Founders Fund. The $5M Google for Startups Black Founders Fund provides non-dilutive cash awards to Black led startups that have participated in our programs or have been nominated by our partner community.
You may remember us from the 2019 FedEx Scale-Up Pitch Challenge hosted at the NBMBAA’s 41st National Conference. We have been working tirelessly to develop a suite of products that tackle the issues that WE face and we are so grateful for the NBMBAA’s support.
The National Black MBA Association held it’s West Coast Scale-Up Pitch Challenge Regional Competition in the historic business district in…
Javier Evelyn is allergic to pistachios, cashews, fish and casein — the main protein in milk. He’s not alone. Researchers…
Kwame Boler is still cleaning up when it comes to pitching his startup. Boler, the founder and CEO of NEU, has…
Got ideas? You can gain access to funding that will help you start or scale your big idea. All you…
Ibraheem Basir, founder and CEO of the new natural foods company A Dozen Cousins, was working for General Mills, leading new…
Before I met Ibraheem Basir, I didn’t think much about beans. As a kid, I ate canned baked beans and…
For A Dozen Cousins’ founder Ibraheem Basir, food is inextricably linked with family. “Food was always a really big deal…
Entrepreneur Ibraheem Basir has elevated the humble legume to build a burgeoning beans business. Basir is the CEO and founder…