Venture capital has a diversity problem . BLCK VC , a new organization founded by Storm Ventures associate Frederik Groce and NEA associate Sydney Sykes to connect, engage and advance black venture capitalists, is ready for a new era in the industry. Their mission: Turn 200 black investors into 400 black investors by 2024. “We think of ourselves as an organization formed by black VCs for blacks VCs to increase the representation of black investors,” Sykes told TechCrunch. “You can look around and say well ‘I know five black VCs,’ but you can also say this firm does not have a single black VC, they may not even have a single underrepresented minority … We want to make firms reckon with the fact that there is a racial diversity problem; there is a lack of black VCs and every firm should really care about it.” BLCK VC has been at work since the beginning of 2018, building and expanding a network of black investors in the San Francisco area, Los Angeles and New York. They seek to provide a...
Bolanle Ninalowo Biography Bolanle Ninalowo Aka Nino is a Nigerian actor who was born on the 7 th day of May. He is the second child of eight children and a native of Ikorodu Lagos state Nigeria. He grew up in Lagos before traveling to Chicago in the US at the age of 15 where he spent another 15 years studying and graduating from Devry University with a BSc in Accounting. He also furthered his education and got a Masters in Marketing from Keller Graduate School of Management in Chicago. Read Also: FEMI ADEBAYO BIOGRAPHY AND NET WORTH After he finished with his studies Bolanle worked as a banker, and also as an accountant in a company called General Growth Properties in Chicago. He later left Chicago in 2010 and relocated back to Nigeria, where he decided to pursue his childhood dream of becoming an Actor. Things didn’t work out so well for him at first because he had no idea of how to kick-start his career, so he took a shot at becoming a producer. He produced a movie titled “REBIR...