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...
List of Approved Courses Offered in Plateau State University Bokkos (Plasu) We have gathered the Detalied lists of Approved Courses Offered in Plateau State University The Plateau State University, Bokkos was established pursuant to the Plateau State University Law N0. 4 of 2005 published as Plateau State of Nigeria Gazette N0. 3 Vol. 11 of 24 th May, 2006. Read Also: LIST OF ACCREDITED COURSES OFFERED IN UNIVERSITY OF JOS (UNIJOS) Early Efforts towards Establishment of a University in Plateau State It was the very first Governor of the State, Joseph Dechi Gomwalk, who made the earliest move towards the establishment of a university in the state by inviting the University of Ibadan to open a campus in Jos, in 1971. This campus was later taken over by the Federal Government of Nigeria to become the University of Jos. Thirty years later, still concerned that the Federal university was not quite fulfilling the aspirations of the State, the then Governor, Joshua Chibi Dariye se...