Focus Area: Latino Founders
Palladium Equity Partners
Palladium is the oldest minority-owned private equity buyout firm in the industry, with over $3 billion of assets under management.
Level Up Ventures
Level Up Ventures is a mission-driven investment vehicle created to close the wealth gap through investment in high-growth startups led by Black and Latino founders.
Mass Ventures
MassVentures is the Commonwealth’s strategic venture capital team. We find, fund, and foster early-stage deep tech that fuels economic growth across the Commonwealth.
National Urban League
Our Entrepreneurship Centers enable minority entrepreneurs who are running their businesses as sole proprietors, to thrive by growing revenue above $750k annually and creating jobs.
Life Asset Inc.
Life Asset is a nonprofit that offers microloans, training, and support for entrepreneurs in the greater Washington D.C. area.
Slauson & Co.
Our mission is to democratize access to entrepreneurship by bridging the gap between untapped founders—historically overlooked by the traditional venture ecosystem—and the right capital and resources required to create sustainable equity and economic inclusion.
Allies for Community Business
Our mission is to provide the capital, coaching, and connections entrepreneurs need to grow great businesses that create jobs and wealth in their communities. As a nonprofit located on Chicago’s West Side, A4CB prioritizes Black, Hispanic/Latinx, women, and low-income entrepreneurs throughout the Chicagoland area and beyond.
National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders
NALCAB advances racial and economic equity by providing grants, loans and training to member organizations across the US — supporting their work to advance economic mobility in the Latino communities they serve.
Latino Economic Development Center (LEDC)
We are Empowered Women International (EWI), a program of the Latino Economic Development Center. Our mission is to provide entrepreneurship training, mentoring, market access and support services to help talented and high-potential women monetize their creative or cultural assets, artistic abilities, knowledge and skills, and become change-makers in their families, communities and the world for immigrant, refugee, low-income, and at-risk women.
