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...
2018 Edition of the top 10 private university in Nigeria. The Rankings is not intended to identify the best private universities in Nigeria and should not be used as the main criteria for selecting a higher institution to enroll. Covenant University (Ogun State) Covenant is a private university affiliated with living faith church worldwide and a member of the association of common wealth universities. On 12th February 2002, the federal government officially presented the certificate, which granted Covenant University the licence to operate as a private university in Nigeria. The institution comprises five colleges College of Business and Social Science College of Leadership Development Studies College of Engineering College of Science and Technology School of Post Graduate Studies Babcock University (Ogun State) Babcock is a private Christian co-educational Nigeria University owned and operated by seventh day Adventist Church in Nigeria, the university is loc...