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...
Nigerian actress, television presenter, and model Zainab Balogun was born on the 10th of October 1989, the British Nigerian was born in the United Kingdom but currently resides in Lagos State Nigeria. While growing up, she was raised in a large family in the Clapham region of South West London. Her parents originally hail from Abeokuta in Ogun State. She had her secondary education at Sacred Heart RC secondary school where she took an interest in art by participating in school plays and talent shows. She attended Christ the King Sixth Form College before moving on to the University of Kent in Medway where she obtained a Bachelor of Law degree (LLB). As a teenager at the age of 16, Zainab was already working as a model after she was scouted by Premier Model Management. On completion of her Law degree, she began to appear in TV programs such as BBC One’s “Material Girl”, “Cocktail” which was a Bollywood movie in 2012 and Ashley Waters The “Charlatans”. Before long she secured a role in C...