Black women are building valuable products and businesses with scalable market opportunities. Black women tech founders are highly concentrated in high-growth industries like education, financial, and health tech, and emerging industries like artificial intelligence/machine learning, clean energy, and wearables.

Tech businesses led by Black women are achieving hockey stick growth with a built-in advantage of Black customer loyalty.The data and the stories of the Black women founders surveyed inform actionable recommendations to help anyone in the tech ecosystem – investors, policymakers, thought leaders, journalists, founders, and others – learn more about the work Black women do, the funding they don’t get, and how to overcome the tech sector’s poor diversity record.