VISIBLE NEWS
September 2, 2022
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that supports overlooked talent in building technology startups.
Dear VH Community,We hope you are as excited about the long weekend as we are! Our team has been diligently working on preparing for our upcoming 2022 Visionaries Accelerator Orientation week in Tulsa, our ongoing VHLX accelerator, and creating meaningful programming for overlooked founders. Our founders are growing their teams, fundraising for their businesses, and pushing their products forward. It's been a busy summer, and everyone deserves some R&R time. Enjoy your time off! If you're interested in a giveaway to our week-long wellness retreat in Tulum this winter, read below for more information on our retreat and other founder updates!Be well,The VH Team
ANNOUNCEMENTS 🗞
Today's the last day to enter our giveaway in partnership with Afro Yoga! We'll be giving three lucky winners wellness prizes next week, including a free Lululemon yoga mat, a 3-month membership to Afro Yoga, and a FREE TICKET for our Well Founded Retreat in Tulum, Mexico later this year! Check out this post to learn more and enter!
VISIONARIES
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Founder Updates, Asks, and Wins:
Congratulations to Kimberly Jolasun, '22 Visionary Founder of Villie and Alyse Dunn, '21 Visionary Founder of CareCopilot for winning the top prizes at this last week's Fearless Fund VC Summit!
'22 Visionary Sarah Spear's Empowered Together has partnered with LOGAN to support parents of children with disabilities. If you know an organization seeking the services Empowered Together provides, schedule a meeting to chat with Sarah here.
Congratulations to '21 Visionary Pico Velásquez, who was recently featured in ‘El Espectador' the second largest newspaper in Colombia, speaking about blockchain and its impact on the Cultural & Art sectors of Latin America!
Congratulations to VHLX Fellow Omar Fuentes who recently accepted 550 Capital Partners as an additional investor into accelEQ!
Are you currently providing financial support to your parents or other older loved ones? NestedFunds, founded by '21 Visionary Marcus Collins is looking to speak with you for customer research! Talk to Marcus for 20 minutes and he'll send you a $20 Visa gift card. Sign up here!
WHAT WE HAVE OUR EYES ON 👀
➕ Founder Resources and Events:
We’re so excited to be a partner of #LTXQuest! Join us 9/8-9/10 for a virtual experience curated for Latinx talent to grow their ideas and accelerate their careers surrounded by a world-class community. Get your tickets here!
Cisco is hosting the inaugural Magnetic Aspire virtual summit! On 9/8 they will bring together leaders across the venture capital and startup ecosystems to discuss the impact of diversity in investing and business growth.
Mark your calendars! StartOut is hosting its 3rd Annual StartOut Equity Summit on 9/15, a virtual event that will focus on ways for underrepresented entrepreneurs to thrive across geographies and industries regardless of their background. Get your ticket here!
Experience the Investor track at #SBW2022 and join us on 9/23 to learn about being a new investor. Register for your FREE ticket here!
Join us on 10/20-10/21 for the Unicorn Ambition conference; a two-day conference in Miami for Black founders and tech investors hosted by Black Men Talk Tech! Get your discounted ticket here!
Project W’s signature program, Women Entrepreneurs Boot Camp (WEB), returns to Seattle on 11/7 for an immersive day of workshops and activities for female founders of seed-stage tech companies. Learn more and apply here by 10/11!
Get $1000 in Ad Credits When You Sign Up for HubSpot for Startups! Learn more here!
Applications for Leap are open! Leap builds a community of high-potential entrepreneurs, introduces them to the growing and vibrant local startup ecosystem, and helps them build relationships with fellow innovators, experienced builders, industry experts, and top VCs. Read more and apply here!
🌎 Ecosystem Spotlights:
Brooklyn Bridge Ventures has created Fall Fundraising Days 2022, a week of curated events, office hours, and panels. Register here to participate from 9/12-9/16.
Join VH VP and Co-Founder Daniel Acheampong from 9/19 - 9/23 at the 6th annual Startup Boston Week! 12 content tracks, 5 days of learning, thousands of connections with startup entrepreneurs and supporters – and it’s all FREE!
💼 Cool Jobs:
'22 Visionary Javier Correa's company Beacon is a platform built with the goal of ending the loneliness epidemic. He is currently looking for a full-time web developer to help expand his IOS app into the web space. Learn more and apply here.
'22 Visionary Allie Burger's company ETTA is elevating the digital experience for the good of people and the planet. She is currently seeking a phenomenal mission-driven VP of Engineering. Learn more about the role and apply here!
'21 VH Portfolio Company, Let's Get Set, offers a mobile app to guide the 90M low-wage households on paths to financial security. They are hiring a Chief of Staff and a Tax Specialist to improve and scale their product to 40k parents this year.
🧑🏽💻 Reading + Listening + Watching List:
Listening: Identity Politics by Ikhlas Saleem and Makkah Ali
Watching: Abbott Elementary on Hulu
If you'd like your founder resource or event/conference to be featured in our weekly newsletter, shoot us a message at kerry@visiblehands.vc
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