:saluting_face: *Sevetri Wilson defies odds as Black Woman Startup Founder. Leads ‘Resilia’ to US$ 35 million Capital Raise;*
:point_right: Ms. Sevetri Wilson is not your average tech company founder.
:point_right: She’s a Black woman, has no coding experience, no cofounders and is based in Louisiana, a state venture capitalists ignore.
:point_right: Most folks with such a profile have long odds of raising meaningful venture capital money as VC investors have long struggled to invest in ‘diverse leaders’.
:thinking_face: Black founders raised only $187 million in venture capital in the third quarter, which is just 0.43% of the total $43 billion deployed in the three months that ended in Sep 2022, according to TechCrunch.
:+1: “*Solo founders” do go on to be grossly successful, and you can look at that across the board*, Ms. Wilson, told Forbes.
:newspaper: *Full Forbes Feature*
:point_right: Ms. Sevetri Wilson is not your average tech company founder.
:point_right: She’s a Black woman, has no coding experience, no cofounders and is based in Louisiana, a state venture capitalists ignore.
:point_right: Most folks with such a profile have long odds of raising meaningful venture capital money as VC investors have long struggled to invest in ‘diverse leaders’.
:thinking_face: Black founders raised only $187 million in venture capital in the third quarter, which is just 0.43% of the total $43 billion deployed in the three months that ended in Sep 2022, according to TechCrunch.
:+1: “*Solo founders” do go on to be grossly successful, and you can look at that across the board*, Ms. Wilson, told Forbes.
:newspaper: *Full Forbes Feature*
