Focus Area: LatinX Founders
Accessity
Accessity’s mission is to open doors of financial opportunity for entrepreneurs, particularly people of color, women, and immigrants. By providing educational support and term loans from $300 to $100,000, it helps entrepreneurs start or grow their small businesses.
Angeles Investors
A nationwide angel network committed to find, fund and grow the most promising Hispanic and Latinx ventures.
Debut Capital
Debut Capital invests in Black, Latinx and Indigenous founders, creating influential businesses that will shape our future into the revolutionary world it’s meant to be.
Overlooked Ventures
Overlooked Ventures supports founders who operate early-stage technology companies who are historically overlooked and provide them capital, resources, and connections to scale their business.
Southern California Job Creators Quest Grant
Founders First is committed to increasing the number of diverse founder-led businesses generating over $1 million dollars in revenues and creating premium wage jobs.
Black Ambition
We invest capital and resources in high-growth startups founded by Black and Latinx entrepreneurs. We believe entrepreneurs historically left out of traditional investment funnels are building the companies of tomorrow.
Opportunity Fund
Launched in June 2020, the SB Opportunity Fund invests in U.S. companies led by founders and entrepreneurs of color at the seed, venture, and growth stages that use technology to reimagine traditional business models and create new ones.
The Minority Entrepreneurship Institute
The Minority Entrepreneurship Institute is a seed-stage impact investing fund that hosts annual pitch competitions for Black, Latinx, and female founders.
Versatile Venture Capital
Versatile Venture Capital backs early-stage companies which help investors generate alpha and succeed. For example, we’re investors (via prior funds) in alternative data, investment research, back-office tech, marketplaces for private companies, and salestech to help gather assets.
BIP Ventures (formerly Panoramic Ventures)
BIP Ventures is a fiduciary to the investors we serve and a conscientious steward of founders’ dreams. For almost two decades, we have connected visionary founders with astute investors and operators to drive market-leading outcomes.
