A new project to support minority entrepreneurs by highlighting their work and connecting them with the resources they need to grow their companies has launched in the Motor City. Detroit in Tech, a collaboration between Grand Circus, Google for Entrepreneurs, and Code2040, seeks to even the...
A new technology solution called ShotSpotter from SST, Inc., a company led by African American tech veteran, Ralph A. Clark, will help the NYPD minimize gun violence The New York City Police Department recently launched a million dollar technology initiative, in its fight against gun violence....
After college he became a high school teacher and, like so many teachers, watched countless bright, talented, ambitious, students unable to reach their true potential because they didn't have the resources to attend college. "I'm proud to announce that I'm joining the Scholly team in our...
About this presentation Walker & Co. Founder and CEO, Tristan Walker didn’t always see himself trying to build a health and beauty products company. In fact, he tried to cure childhood obesity, start a bank, and build a freight truck fixing company first, which were very...
Stacy Brown-Philpot didn’t expect to be a tech CEO. Trained as an investment banker, she came to Silicon Valley out of sheer curiosity and landed a finance job at Google when it had only 1,000 employees. "My mother said, ‘You know, if this Google thing doesn’t...