Fellowship Spotlight: Curb Cut Ventures
This VC fund is building a “crosswalk” to venture by investing in overlooked startup founders who are building companies serving the 90M+ individuals on Medicaid.
Fellowship Spotlight: Musa Capital
This GP created a new approach to venture participation to create wealth for black tech workers and act as a new funding opportunity for underrepresented founders.
Interviewing Milton Speid, the Newly Appointed Executive Director of VC Include
Meet Milton Speid and learn about his remarkable journey to VC Include.
Welcome VC Include’s New Executive Director
Milton Speid will take the lead and usher in the next growth phase of VC Include - one that will expand our programs, advocacy, and impact.
Fellowship Spotlight: Metallum Ventures
This GP is banking on diversification in more ways than one to deliver outsized returns in capital as well as in transformation of the VC industry.
Fellowship Spotlight: Partners In Equity
This PE fund connects main street entrepreneurs with patient equity to increase the number of Black and Brown businesses that own their own commercial real estate.
Fellowship Spotlight: 100KM Ventures
With a commitment to push the boundaries of what’s possible, this VC fund invests in untapped customer segments within femtech and future of work.
Fellowship Spotlight: EHI Cleantech Ventures
This team of dedicated GPs are committed to identifying and nurturing the next generation of underrepresented founders of clean technology startups.
Fellowship Spotlight: High Street Equity Partners
The driving vision behind the work of this VC firm is a tech ecosystem where opportunities and access to capital are more widespread and every U.S. demographic is represented.
Fellowship Spotlight: Malaika Ventures
This venture firm invests in climate innovations through a climate justice lens to achieve a rapid and just climate transition.
Fellowship Spotlight: Bay Street Capital Holdings
His entrepreneurial journey evolved from establishing a call center to managing an investment firm, then expanded into hotel ownership and private lending to bridge gaps in the market.
Fellowship Spotlight: Chasing Rainbows
This VC fund invests in early-stage, LGBTQ+-founded companies as a way of closing gaps in access to capital for LGBTQ+ founders.
Fellowship Spotlight: Corridor Ventures
These New Orleans based GPs are looking to unlock innovation in the U.S. Southeast via their early-stage venture capital firm.
Fellowship Spotlight: Serac Ventures
This venture capital firm is investing in non-traditional founders and overlooked markets at the seed stage to help reshape the future of business.
Fellowship Spotlight: The IDEA Fund
This fund’s mission is to get much-needed capital to community-based Internet Service Providers to help bridge the digital divide across one of the least connected U.S. regions: Appalachia.
Fellowship Spotlight: DVRGNT Ventures
This GP created a fund that invests in tech-enabled startups in Middle America to bridge the gap between the locations where most American workers are from vs. the major cities that traditionally get VC investment.
Fellowship Spotlight: Good Scout Capital
This private equity firm focuses on revitalizing the American Dream and making economic mobility a reality for more people.
Fellowship Spotlight: Sequential Ventures
This firm invests in companies that are using technology to reshape healthcare and address the unmet needs of marginalized patient populations.
Fellowship Spotlight: non sibi ventures
Leveraging their decades of investment and operational experience and vast networks, these co-GPs target underrepresented founders in order to generate outsized returns.
Fellowship Spotlight: Emmeline Ventures
This VC fund invests in female founders building game-changing businesses that empower women to manage their health, build their wealth, and live in a cleaner, safer world.