Black Founders

4Degrees is an AI-enabled customer relationship management platform for professional services like banking, consulting, and real estate.

Acclinate is a digital health company integrating culture and technology to source diverse participants for clinical trials.

Adapdix is an AI/ML startup that works with large industrial semiconductor, electronic and assembly companies.

AfroHealth is a digital health & wellness platform that harnesses the power of AI and human touch to provide personalized healthcare coaching to Black and Brown communities. AfroHealth is dedicated to closing the health disparity gap by making quality, culturally competent healthcare accessible and affordable.

Akeptus is an AI-powered energy management platform that provides real-time insights and control to optimize usage, reduce waste, and strengthen grid resilience. Leveraging predictive analytics and patented NILM technology, Akeptus delivers appliance-specific energy insights and recommendations that empower utilities and consumers to manage consumption intelligently.

AllHere fosters student attendance and supports families and students with mobile messaging powered by AI.

AI-powered operating system for Community Banks & Credit Unions.

AssetLink is a Data as a Service company that leverages artificial intelligence to connect asset managers, wealth managers and accredited investors via first party contextualized data. The platform democratizes access to investment solutions through behavioral intent data, real time matches, mutual alignment, and diligence all in one friction free ecosystem.

Aster’s technology enables women’s health practices to manage, grow and scale their practices. Our solution improves clinical outcomes and enables practices to remain competitive and independent in the ever-changing landscape of healthcare. Aster’s initial focus is on maternal health providers across the U.S.

DOSS is a digital, voice-activated real estate marketplace that empowers consumers to speak, text or type questions about properties nationwide and receive accurate, easy answers instantly.

CareCopilot is an intelligent, curated marketplace of key services that families need when caring for elderly loved ones.

Chatdesk uses machine learning to scale support teams with the click of a button.

Clerkie is a debt relief marketplace that helps people get out of debt through automation.

eBanqo is a customer engagement AI platform that empowers businesses of all sizes to provide instant and seamless service to their customers across all channels, 24/7.

EdLight is a platform using AI to better read, interpret and digitize handwritten student work, reducing misconceptions and increasing equity amongst students, teachers and families.

Expedier is the first Black-led, Black-Owned & BIPOC facing Digital Bank in Canada serving 6 million underserved BIPOC Canadians.

Fêtefully digitizes wedding planning experiences, allowing planners to generate greater revenue as they provide elite services to their customers.

Florence is a demand labor marketplace for healthcare organizations and an integrated accredited degree granting online nursing school.

Growvare, formerly known as Beam.city DNA, is a growth strategy discovery and automation platform helping businesses maximize growth using ads, email and social.

Hue is an AI-powered video platform that helps brands generate and display short-form video reviews on e-commerce. Hue sources reviews from a vetted community of real people across skin tones, skin types, and ages, and provides customers visual proof that products work for their unique needs, improving brand’s and retailer’s conversion, sales and time on site.

HumanSquad is an immigration technology company simplifying the immigration & study abroad system by empowering immigrants everywhere with the resources, products and personalized support to immigrate conveniently and affordably.

IndyGeneUS (pronounced “indigenous”) is a precision medicine company using next-generation sequencing technologies to identify unique gene variants in diseases that affect underrepresented populations. IndyGeneUS aims to become the trusted resource for delivering high-quality and reliable disease insights and molecular and cellular therapeutic development and bioprocessing, inclusive of populations underrepresented in genetic research.

Innovare's app aggregates and displays data from a variety of systems to empower education leaders to make data-driven decisions that positively impact students and communities.

INVY is an AI-powered tool enabling consumers to digitally manage their belongings, such as clothing, jewelry, furniture, and art. It transforms these items into investable assets by assessing their real-time market values, essential for insurance, maintenance, and resale, thereby unlocking their lifetime value and promoting circular consumption.

Kanarys is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) focused SaaS platform that gives companies clear metrics to diagnose, prioritize, and optimize DEI efforts.

Kwema is the world's first smart badge reel containing a hidden duress button, that empowers clinicians to unobtrusively call for help when facing patient violence.

LoanWell is a End-to-End platform for Lenders with Intake, Origination, Underwriting, Closing, Servicing, & Reporting all in one platform.

Lokum App leverages technology to give employers of medical specialists direct access to staff that they desperately need, while allowing them to skip recruitment agencies and save up to 92% of their current costs.

MedHaul is a tech-enabled marketplace for finding and booking safe, skilled special needs transportation

MindRight Health provides culturally responsive mental health coaching over text message to communities of color and low-income families.

Mommy Monitor is a maternal care services platform that provides an easily accessible and culturally safe variety of services that give parents extra support customized to their particular needs and wants.

Mozaic is an API-first global payment platform built for co-creators on any project, anywhere. Mozaic provides smart contracts that automate split income among creative teams.

My Home Pathway is a technology platform that uses a proprietary algorithm to guide first-time home buyers to approval faster by analyzing data and providing individualized recommendations to improve risk profiles to meet mortgage underwriting requirements of their partners.

Node is a gig marketplace that lets small businesses hire local influencers in their neighborhood.

NurseBrain streamlines nursing workflows to reduce burnout, improve patient outcomes and increase nurse-retention rates.

A personal creative AI assistant that helps you create, share and manage your content across platforms with a simple conversation. We're building the JARVIS of Content Creation.

Onramp is a workforce development platform helping companies build more diverse candidate pipelines by providing them with a mechanism to invest in skills development for current and future candidates.

At Oppos, we pride ourselves in being a leading provider of Cybersecurity Compliance solutions and IT Audit Preparation activities. We are headquartered in Toronto, Canada with over 60 years of combined experience servicing SMBs, public and private sector organizations.

Optimal intelligently eliminates electricity waste, lowers operational expenses, and helps to save the planet.

Paerpay is a contactless payment and loyalty experience for restaurants and their guests that doesn't require a new POS system.

Pagedip is a no-code content publishing app that allows users to create beautifully efficient, powerfully effective and demonstrably measurable documents that work better for teams and their customers.

Plannly Health is a patent-pending risk management software dedicated to mitigating the risk of human errors in hospitals, by offering a digital health solution that addresses provider stress, burnout, and critical life events or changes.

Productions.com is a talent solution that connects brands to vetted local freelance and full time production talent, saving time and money in the process.

Rivet is an AI-driven platform that helps creator teams use machine learning to find and understand their high-potential fans and provides actions and automations to unlock more revenue from them.

A computer vision AI company building inclusive datasets, predictive and generative AI models for ALL skin shades under all lighting and atmospheric conditions.

ShearShare is the first mobile marketplace for stylists to manage and grow their small business on their terms, starting with space to work.

Sivil is a public safety software company with a mission to create a safer world for everyone. Our online platform allows local government agencies to easily gather, manage, and report on civilian feedback about law enforcement.

Skilbi is a career exploration platform that leverages advanced machine learning to recommend careers aligning with individual interests and skills, offering interactive challenges for skill development sought by early talent recruiters.

Smart Alto makes B2C prospecting more intelligent, automated and accessible for insurance agents, real estate agents and loan officers. It's the simplest way for you to find a list of homeowners and set a meeting without cold calling or paying for expensive seller leads.

Sugar provides software to building owners and managers to transform the residential experience.

TQ Intelligence uses voice recognition technology and AI to measure toxic stress and transform trauma care.

TracFlo is an online platform that allows contractors to track all project cost in a mobile app and make real time financial decisions.

TurnSignl is a mobile platform that provides real-time, on-demand legal guidance from an attorney to drivers, all while their camera records the interaction.

Upswing partners with colleges and institutions to reverse the dropout rate of online and non-traditional students.

Varuna is the leading water distribution system monitoring company providing real-time visibility, awareness and insights to water systems enabling optimal operations and consumer safety.

WearWorks is a company that uses the skin as a communications channel to deliver information. Their product, Wayband, is a Haptic navigation app and wristband that gently guides users to a destination using vibration. without visual or audio cues.

XpressRun is a platform that enables Same Day & Next Day delivery at competitive rates for Direct-to-Consumer brands who maintain their brand identity throughout.

ZeroStoreFront uses data analytics to help small businesses acquire users, increase revenue, and retain customers.

Zirtue is the world's first relationship-based lending application that simplifies loans between friends, family and trusted relationships while giving borrowers the option to pay creditors directly using their borrowed funds.