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Diversity

  • Diversity
  • 7 min read

Black History Month 2023: An Interview with the Founders of BERG

Read our interview with the founders of Crunchbase's Black Employee Resource Group, where we discuss the importance of building safe spaces for Black employees, the significance of Black History Month and more.

Rebecca Strehlow, Copywriter at Crunchbase

  • Diversity
  • 11 min read

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: A Spotlight on 7 Impactful Entrepreneurs in the Hispanic and Latine Community

Ayzia Vizcocho, Content Specialist at Crunchbase

  • Female Founders
  • 7 min read

History in the Making: Meet the Top-Funded Female Entrepreneurs in 2022 (Thus Far)

Ayzia Vizcocho, Content Specialist at Crunchbase

  • Entrepreneurs
  • 7 min read

Are VCs Indirectly Impacting Women Working in Tech?

By Christine Simone, co-founder of Caribou

Stay up to date with recent funding rounds, acquisitions, and more with the Crunchbase Daily.

  • Diversity
  • 8 min read

How the Tech Industry Can Be More Inclusive to the Black Community

Shipium’s VP of GTM weighs in about his own DEI experiences within the tech industry—and how leaders can avoid making common DEI mistakes.

By Marcus Knight, VP of Go-To-Market, Shipium

  • Diversity
  • 12 min read

Top 30 Companies Founded by Black and Latine Entrepreneurs That Raised the Most Funding in 2021

Crunchbase's curated list of the top 30 Black- and Latine-founded companies that raised the most funding in 2021.

Ayzia Vizcocho, Content Specialist at Crunchbase

  • Diversity
  • 5 min read

As Industry Regulators Try To Catch Up, Diverse Investors Are Already Making Moves

A lack of diverse C-level executives, bring up questions around how well placed our industries are to cater to the majority of consumers. 

By Nahla Davies, Technical Writer, Enterprise/SaaS Expert

  • News About Crunchbase
  • 4 min read

Reflecting On Our Progress: One Year Since The Launch Of Diversity Spotlight

One year ago, the Crunchbase community came together to centralize and highlight diversity data with the launch of Diversity Spotlight.

Diane Wong, Senior Product Manager at Crunchbase

  • Diversity
  • 6 min read

How Investors Can Build an LGBTQ+ Friendly Portfolio

There are many ways to get started investing while focusing on diversity through indexes like the Corporate Equality Index (CEI) and LGBTQ-specific indexes which rate companies based on their gender diversity, racial diversity, etc.

By Nahla Davies, Technical Writer

Stay up to date with recent funding rounds, acquisitions, and more with the Crunchbase Daily.

  • Crunchbase Partnerships
  • 3 min read

StartOut Pride Economic Impact Index

In July 2020, with support from JPMorgan Chase, StartOut, Socos Labs, and Crunchbase launched the StartOut Pride Economic Impact Indexes (SPEII), the first of our Inclusion Impact Indexes created to gain insight into LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs' economic impact.

By Andres Wydler, Executive Director at StartOut

  • Entrepreneurs
  • 11 min read

Women Leaders on How to Build an Inclusive Team Culture (at Any Company Size)

The following 12 women leaders have made inspiring strides in ensuring they meet the diverse needs within their teams, ultimately setting an example of upfront and ongoing effort.

Dreamers & Doers, A Private Collective for Entrepreneurial Women

  • Diversity
  • 5 min read

Venture Capital Firms Expand Opportunities For Diverse Investors

Despite tremendous efforts by businesses across the world, a lack of diversity remains an issue at all levels.

Kiara Taylor, Finance and Technology Expert

  • Diversity
  • 5 min read

Female Investors Aim To Reverse Alarming Decline In Women’s Economic Participation

How Women Invest is a direct remedy for the disproportionate effects being felt by women in our challenging economy.

Heather Jerrehian and Nicole DeMeo, How Women Invest

  • Diversity
  • 5 min read

The key to successful diversity and inclusion? Belongingness

There’s a reason we’re still talking about diversity and inclusion all these years later: the way we’re doing it now is not sustainable, nor is it working.

Anne-Marie Finch, Chief People Officer, Templafy

  • Diversity
  • 8 min read

Talk Is Cheap, VCs Should Show Us Traction From Their Diversity Efforts

Little has been done to change the lack of diversity representation of investing partners and portfolio founders, and there are a lot of issues that must be examined.

Sindhya Valloppillil, Founder and CEO of Skin Dossier & Venture Partner at NextGen Ventures

  • Diversity
  • 5 min read

Sistas in Sales: How Chantel George Built a Community for Women of Color in Sales

Chantel George has built a vibrant community for women of color sales professionals. Learn more about her story and how she's changing the game.

Jeremy Brown, Storyteller at Crunchbase

  • Sales
  • 5 min read

The Monthly Rundown, Bonus Edition: January Venture Rounds for Black-founded and Co-founded U.S. Companies

Following the classic Monthly Rundown style, this edition highlights Black-founded and co-founded companies with new funding from the last month.

Shamus Noonan, Sales Manager at Crunchbase

  • Fintech
  • 5 min read

4 Tips for Minorities Pursuing A Career In Finance

In finance, African Americans and Latinos — combined — make up only about 3.5 percent of all certified financial planners.

Kiara Taylor, Finance and Technology Expert

  • Diversity
  • 5 min read

AI Meets D&I: How Diversio Is Redefining the Diversity Gold Standard

Laura McGee is the co-founder and CEO of Diversio, a technology company that uses artificial intelligence to help organizations become more inclusive.

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

  • Diversity
  • 5 min read

AI Can Advance Companies’ Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Goals—But Not Alone

As a tech entrepreneur, I instinctively look at common challenges organizations encounter. This year, however, a chronic issue has resurfaced that technology alone can’t fix: a deficiency of diversity, equity...

Mahe Bayireddi, CEO of Phenom

  • Entrepreneurs
  • 10 min read

Daring Greatness Resonates: Know Your Fruit’s Jacqueline Alexander on Community, Culture and Commitment

Jacqueline (Jackie) Alexander has a proven track record in business. A lawyer by trade, she purchased a pear orchard and, after realizing how much fruit goes to waste due to falling off the tree, discovered an opportunity to create freeze-dried fruit for snacking.

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

  • Entrepreneurs
  • 8 min read

Inlightened’s Shelli Pavone on Impacting Health Care Through Diversity and Inclusion

Pavone shares why she founded Inlightened, and how a true commitment to diversity and inclusion in health care organizations is the only way to address the diverse needs of the patients they serve.

Shelli Pavone, Co-Founder & CEO of Inlightened

  • Entrepreneurs
  • 4 min read

3 Ways to Empower Female Engineers

Today, women account for 46 percent of the total U.S. workforce, but only 16 percent of all senior-level tech roles. When we consider the percentage of women in software engineering...

Tal Barak-Manela, Director of Engineering at Capacity

  • Entrepreneurs
  • 2 min read

New Program Gives Black Founders Free Access to Valuable Technology

Tech for Black Founders, a new initiative that gives Black founders free access to valuable technology that can help them accelerate growth.

Jeremy Brown, Storyteller at Crunchbase

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