6 Startup Investors On What It Will Take To Fund More Black Founders

According to Crunchbase News, six venture investors are offering a frank assessment of the barriers facing Black-founded startups seeking capital. The consensus: the problem isn't founders — it's the venture industry itself. They point to sourcing patterns locked in old networks, ingrained assumptions about who gets a fair hearing, and investing heuristics that have become invisible gatekeeping. The fix requires real work: actively broaden sourcing, examine your own patterns ruthlessly, and recognize that decades of narrow funding networks have left genuine opportunity on the table. It's less about diversity initiatives and more about acknowledging that venture capital has been underwriting its own blind spots.

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