Black and Latinx startup founders have raised only 2.6% of all venture capital funding in the U.S. this year, according to a report by business information database Crunchbase. In total, these entrepreneurs collected $2.3 billion, up from about $1 billion in 2014 but down from a peak of $4 billion in 2018. Black and Latinx founders have historically struggled to raise capital in Silicon...
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