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Staring Down An Economy Hit Hard By The Pandemic, Midwest Ecosystem Leaders Adapt and Adjust
Amid The Pandemic, Community Leaders and Tech Employees Are Working Together To Address The Bay Area’s Digital Divide
How Black Women Founders Are Tapping Into Crowdfunding During The Pandemic
Amid COVID-19, Bronx Community Leaders Work To Close Technology Gaps
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Real Policy Outcomes for a Renewed Interest in Workplace Diversity
Mapping The Black Innovation Alliance: Keeping Track of The Companies and Innovators Making Up The BIA and Where They Are
For The Country’s Top Accelerators, New Inclusion Strategies Are On The Horizon
Creating the Majority-Minority Tech Hubs for the Future of Work
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Twilio, Box, Spotify, and Other Tech CEOs Speak Out Against Racism and Police Brutality; Others Stay Silent
Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund Delivers on Culture, Minimal Investment into Black-Led Startups
25 Black Women Executives with Successful Exits & 25 Who May Be Next
2019 Framing and Reporting the Black Innovation Economy
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- Founder Nash Ahmed, a Nigerian-American, built Undock an all-in-one video meeting interface
- $1.6 million in a funding round led by Lightship Capital
- The virtual office/learning environment will continue to create critical demands on software companies
The two-year old startup has slowly been gaining traction and quietly building an interface that connects scheduling, meetings, and video conferencing.
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Everyone is middle class until they lose their job,” says Sheena Allen, CEO of CapWay, on a late Friday afternoon while she works from her Atlanta office.
Her observation falls in line with that of researchers who project that as the pandemic drastically hollows out America’s middle earners via more job cuts, poverty rates could reach levels on par with those of the Great Depression.
As some states reopened for business in the last few weeks and several others are slated to open this week, one would expect shoppers to flock back to their favorite stores ready to spend cash after nearly two months of habitation.
Getting back to “normal” will look different in the weeks and months ahead, partly because human-to-human contact is still risky business for shoppers and retail workers on the front line.
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