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AcceleratorCON Put the Startup Accelerator on the Clock
Founders usually need a warm introduction. AcceleratorCON’s answer is a sports-style draft - applications, scouts, selections and private pitch meetings - built to turn conference mingling into an actual pipeline.
JumpStart Built a $16.9 Billion Argument for Helping Founders Before They Look Fundable
The Cleveland nonprofit does something rare: it pays for advice before founders can afford it, invests when some become venture-ready, and measures the result in jobs, wages and taxes across Ohio.
digitalundivided counted the founders venture capital overlooked
A missing dataset became a business-building mission. Inside the nonprofit helping overlooked founders test ideas, find investors and get past the warm-introduction problem.
Kesha Cash
Kesha Cash is the Founder and General Partner of Impact America Fund, the largest VC firm in America run entirely by a Black woman. Based in Oakland, California, she manages $65 million across two funds, backing technology-enabled startups that serve low-to-moderate income and overlooked communities. Her portfolio includes Esusu (a fintech unicorn), Mayvenn, SoLo Funds, and CareAcademy. A former Wall Street analyst who grew up on a farm in South Carolina and was the first in her family to attend college, Cash draws on lived experience of economic inequality to identify billion-dollar opportunities that traditional investors routinely miss.