Our Mission
Helping black women build the next billion dollar company
Black women are the most educated, fastest growing group of entrepreneurs. It’s time they started creating billion dollar tech companies.
Why Talk Tech?
Consider the Numbers
- Over the past year, women started an average of 1,817 new businesses per day in the U.S. However, women of color make up the largest portion of this statistic according to the annual State of Women-Owned Businesses Report.
- Black Women are the fastest growing group of female entrepreneurs.
- Black Women Founders in the U.S. remain underinvested by VCs and angels.
- Less than 1% of Black Women Founders get VC funding. (Fast Company, 2018)
Our Focus
We’re Creating a Funding Path With A Focus On 4 Pillars
Educate
Develop resources & programming specifically for active founders
Promote
Normalize black women founders by putting them in the spotlight
Research
Our Think Tank develops reliable & consistent data to help create solutions
Fund
Provide access to funding opportunities and ultimately fund promising companies that would otherwise go overlooked