Reflecting on our recent AGM
March 28, 2025
This year, we shifted our AGM format to an interactive dialogue. It was magnificent to witness the willingness of one hundred diverse attendees to be present, remain open to different viewpoints, and share insights and contacts.Read more
Announcing Impact America Fund III
June 19, 2023
Earlier this year we closed a $112M Fund III, bringing our total AUM to $177M. With this fund, we’ll invest in 30 new companies at stages Seed through Series A. Read more
Announcing Impact America Fund II
October 27, 2020
Today, we’re announcing Impact America Fund (IAF) II: a $55 million venture capital fund. This is likely the largest fund ever raised by a sole Black female general partner.Read more
Systemic racism is the largest market inefficiency
August 27, 2020
As part of LinkedIn's "The Road Ahead" series, I wrote about how venture capitalists can meet this moment of racial and economic turmoil by recognizing systemic racism as the kind of market inefficiency that our industry is poised to disrupt.Read more
Keeping It Black: 'Cultural Competence' Is Key
July 20, 2020
In July, Diishan Imira, the CEO of our portfolio company Mayvenn, and I were featured on Keeping It Black: 'Cultural Competence' Is Key.Read more
CareAcademy: A Watershed Moment for the Labor of Black Women
June 11, 2020
We are witnessing a watershed moment as we publicly grapple both with an economic fallout from the pandemic and the widespread response to decades of police brutality on Black people.Read more
Mayvenn: Leadership Rooted in Values
May 26, 2020
Due to many life experiences of having to navigate, adapt and survive unfamiliar spaces, I’m thankfully able to find an internal place of calm in the middle of chaotic situations and focus on problem-solving over panicking.Read more