Last year, the @SharmaBrands Gift Guide had nearly 100,000 visitors & generated over $240,000 in revenue for small businesses.
This year we partnered with The Fascination to create a DTC Black Friday guide & made it easy to copy discounts!
Happy Thanksgiving 🤗🦃
We are proud to announce an additional $500 million commitment toward facilitating connections and increasing access to capital for Black, Latinx, women, and diverse entrepreneurs and investors through #LaunchWithGS.
The coolest news you'll see today: @margaretanadu unveiling the largest ever investment focused on black women with $10B and advisors including @rosalindbrewer1, @IssaRae, @ValerieJarrett and @CondoleezzaRice
https://t.co/LvIQVtjq93
"There's no pipeline issue."
However, "The network gap is one of the biggest contributors to the investment gap."
Aka - START MAKING INTRODUCTIONS!
Goldman's @JemmaWolfe tells @romainebostick, #BloombergEquality
At 10:10am ET tomorrow morning, Head of #LaunchWithGS Jemma Wolfe will speak about the investing gap for diverse entrepreneurs at #BloombergEquality. Register for the event via @BloombergLive: https://t.co/vlYAGDMVyu
“We feel more confident than ever that the founders selected embody the type of companies that #LaunchWithGS was created to support.” Read more reflections from $GS leaders on the 2020 Black and Latinx Entrepreneur Cohort here: https://t.co/96mueiRsKl
Big thanks to @ruthumohnews@forbes for featuring data from our report about underrepresented founders during the pandemic and stories from @tdufu @abramsonjenny@PamKostka https://t.co/p2kSpKZReQ You can find the full report here: https://t.co/xfxn25ElTe
Our CEO @PamKostka:“The future Googles and Facebooks are going to emerge from this & we have a unique opportunity to ensure that the funding, founding and scaling of those companies is done with diversity, equity and inclusion built into their very fabric.”https://t.co/GTqAlJNWwv
Excited about today’s #LaunchWithGS Investor Showcase for our #Black & #LatinX Entrepreneur Cohort! These talented innovators worked hard these past 8 weeks & I’m honored to have been part of their journey with the #LaunchWithGS Advisory Council! @GoldmanSachs@JemmaWolfe@EY_US
We are grateful to @OrlanBoston for his input and guidance as part of our #LaunchWithGS@GoldmanSachs Advisory Council, a group of leading entrepreneurs, investors, and executives who share our commitment to narrowing investing gaps.
This is a great listen from @GoldmanSachs@JemmaWolfe, talking about #LaunchWithGS - An investment strategy funding early-stage companies built by diverse teams. Proud to be on the advisory council for this awesome initiative! https://t.co/wE8wISLpd3 #DiversityAndInclusion