Black women are the leading sector of business starters in the US yet of all the venture capital distributed, 10% of funds go to non-white male founders with only .2% going to black female founders. This is $36,000 compared to the average $1.2 million awarded to leading recipients. This past March, Black Women Talk Tech hosted a “Roadmap to Billions Conference 2018” to make their case to help black women build the next billion-dollar company. The two-day conference took place at Microsoft’s headquarters in NYC and showcased top female founders from home décor and architectural design to NASA technology and virtual reality, to finance, education, marketing and everything in between. Some of the speakers at this year’s conference included Heather Hiles of the Gates Foundation; Jean Brownhill, CEO of Sweeten; and Healthy You Now founder, film producer, and better half of Spike Lee, Tonya Lewis Lee.
Black Women Talk Tech was formed in 2016 and founded out of the shared experiences of business owners Regina Gwynn, co-founder of TressNoire; Esosa Ighodaro, co-founder of COSIGN; and Lauren Washington, CEO and co-founder of KeepUp. Today all three ladies are here with me in-studio to talk tech and so much more.
Esosa Ighanoda
Lauren Washington
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