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Accounstory is an AI-powered sales assistant for SMBs, Mid-Market, and Enterprise companies.

Buzzbassador is a B2B SaaS platform that helps DTC and Retail brands unlock scale with influencer marketing using end-to-end automated workflows.

CyDeploy is a B2B SaaS that provides an intelligent, automated approach to functional testing, enabling proper and timely security configurations and patches.

EdLight digitizes student work to make it easy for schools to score, sort, and share.

Edlyft builds software that enterprises like Google and Dropbox use to train early engineers on skills they need to be productive.

Guardian Lane is a children's mental health platform that is innovating how children access grief counseling.

Innovare’s software Inno™ empowers education leaders to use data insights to positively impact students and communities.

InterviewIA is a software company that promotes equity and mitigates bias in the interview process.

Kai XR is a learning platform where students use in-demand technologies to improve technical literacy for students stuck in the Opportunity Gap.

Limitless Minds brings together world-class coaches, behavioral science, and technology to make mindset training more effective and accessible.

Local Civics streamlines civics, college, and career education for K-16 schools.

Omaiven is workflow automation for clinic operations.

Onramp is a workforce development platform helping companies build and scale apprenticeships to create alternative pathways into tech careers for candidates.

OpenSauced provides code insights to highlight inefficiencies and problems at scale.

Otis is the all-in-one solution designed for growing SMBs and startups to manage their digital marketing.

Paerpay is the fastest contactless payment and guest engagement platform for restaurants.

Pills2Me increases medication adherence in vulnerable communities via on-demand prescription delivery from any pharmacy and MTM.

Co:census is a collaborative workspace for teams to learn, plan, create, analyze, and work as they conduct research projects for stakeholder engagement.

Stemuli is a 3D, immersive gaming experience that uses AI, machine learning, and gaming to take a student from their current academic proficiency to their dream job.

Taxxwiz allows tax professionals and CPAs to file returns in minutes not hours.

Teamwork is an integrated autism therapy platform that offers direct/hybrid Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services and a matching/scheduling solution.

Untapped Solutions is an AI-powered platform that bridges the gap between the formerly incarcerated, case worker-driven organizations, and employers.

Vantage Point is the leading global provider in immersive virtual reality based training for EQ-related topics such as DEI and anti-sexual harassment.

Adventurely connects digital nomads to each other and to their new local communities.

Allspring is an intuitive tech platform, providing job seekers with readily accessible mentorship throughout their job transition and a reliable way to calendar every step of their journey. Allspring turns career coaching into a tangible reality, empowering young professionals to conveniently connect with career coaches, financial advisors, and mental health professionals for trusted guidance on their next career move.

Athlytic is a fully-integrated marketplace that connects student athletes with potential monetization opportunities so that they can take advantage of monetizing their likeness without taking away from their ability to perform at a high level in their prospective sports.

Aurign is an accounting and royalty distribution platform for music companies and artists. The platform creates and files split sheets for every song you create, securing personal, publishing, and equity information for all owners in a song. Aurign is the first patent platform that uses NFTs to account for royalty payments for all stakeholders with a controlling interest in a song.

Beatmatch is the dating app that helps music lovers find relationships and friendships by matching people with similar music tastes and concert interests.

Blooksy is a software as a service tool that provides writers everything they need to write and publish their book on a single platform.

Buoy automatically prices and reports on vacation rentals for property managers. Buoy tracks every listing and hotel in the world, and can see every event impacting demand, earning managers an average of 20% more revenue each month. Buoy exists to help make economic mobility possible for our users through progressive technology.

CashEx is a currency exchange platform that leverages AI to help U.S.-based African migrants transfer money to Africa with zero fees.

Chewbox delivers SaaS to Forbes Global 2,000 companies, enabling their food service vendors to extend F & B services to remote, hybrid, and stranded workers while generating exponential cost savings. Chewbox's software is designed around a patented method of on-schedule food service.

Chezie helps companies maximize the ROI for their Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) by providing them with a comprehensive system for capturing data and managing groups.

ChurchSpace is a mission-driven marketplace that relieves churches of their financial burden through the use of their underutilized space as on-demand event, meeting and commercial kitchen space.

Curastory allows anyone to shoot and edit high-quality video, monetize shows, and distribute to all of their video channels, 100% free.

Deposits is a hosted fintech platform that offers banks and brands an easy to use, turnkey solution for engagement, modernization, and best-in-class financial experiences such as payments, mobile apps, and lending — whether you can program or not.

Divercity.io helps companies measure and track their diversity breakdown and helps them improve it by connecting them with qualified diverse talent.

DUKE.ai is a software as a service platform for automated document processing workflows for applications such as back office payment processing, book keeping and accounting.

EatOkra supports a vibrant community of consumers and business owners that honor and preserve the culinary heritage and history of the African diaspora. Available on iPhone and Android, the elegant and easy-to-use mobile app allows consumers to find the best Black-owned food outlets nearby and feed their souls by claiming their power as conscious buyers.

Enrichly uses machine learning, gamification, and data automation to make self-esteem improvement fun for K–12 while providing an on-site mental health curriculum for schools.

Eventnoire is the event marketplace for Black culture-centric events.

Femly is a hi-tech personal care company that provides healthy and eco-friendly menstruation products and aims to end period poverty.

Free From Market (“FFM”) is the first digital health platform to provide curated food selection, integrated tele-nutrition and educational support, and the ability to measure health outcomes.

Gainvest is an all-inclusive investment services platform that allows people to form entities, raise capital, and run their businesses. Founded in 2019, over $110M+ has been invested through the platform into real estate and startup businesses.

Gauge connects decision-makers navigating culture with the diverse cultural-leaders charting its future to test ideas, content, campaigns, and strategy.

Glamo is a beauty marketplace that connects clients with a stylist in their area.

Happied is an automated event planning software, empowering companies to engage and retain talent at a fraction of the cost and time of planning events in house.

Haven Rx is a white label digital pharmacy licensed in all 50 states to deliver medications to patients.

Hush is the smartest privacy solution ever made. Built with leading AI technology, Hush reimagines privacy from the ground up to give families control of their digital lives. It harnesses the power of technology to offer comprehensive digital monitoring across the web, intelligent analysis to identify financial, physical and reputation risk, and expansive remediation to keep private information private.

ImIn, Inc. is a software as a service platform that provides work flexibility through a mobile application. The company uses its proprietary software to facilitate connections between companies and an on-demand staffing population. The software was designed to address staffing challenges specific to the call center industry. ImIn is the ultimate answer for workforce flexibility.

Kiddie Kredit is a mobile chore tracking app that teaches kids about credit. The premise of the app is that the better a child performs their household duties, the higher their Kiddie Kredit score will be.

Kimoyo Insights helps companies around the world get feedback from consumers across Africa. Kimoyo's research platform manages participant recruitment, scheduling and payments enabling teams from Microsoft, ChipperCash, BBC and more, conduct research studies in Africa up to 55% faster. location_onBrooklyn, NY

Lessonbee is a health education and social emotional learning platform with supplemental digital curriculum that supports sustained outcomes in health literacy and social-emotional wellness through comprehensive, culturally responsive, and self-paced online learning for students and teachers.

MedTrans Go is a B2B healthcare appointment optimization marketplace solving the $150B problem of medical appointment cancellations in the US by providing healthcare providers care coordination services to address the root causes of their cancellations. MedTrans GO mission is to reduce missed appointments and the burden they place on healthcare providers, as well as to remove barriers for all patients to access necessary healthcare services.

Mitivate is automating and streamlining healthcare cost-containment and quality administration services. Mitivate's platform allows healthcare institutional payers to implement cost-containment services by analyzing the financial process and validating the quality outcomes of a patient’s treatment process.

NixCode is an online software service company for tech startups that provides the CTO non-tech founders need via artificial intelligent (AI) based product development guides and no-code app development software to build, validate, launch and scale a mobile app.

Oppti helps students explore their career interests and build the skills and knowledge necessary to gain a meaningful career.

PackDash provides e-commerce warehousing and fulfillment services intended to enable e-commerce brands to grow and succeed by providing a better, more worry-free fulfillment experience. The company provides services to eCommerce brands that have a wide range of perishable, frozen, and durable goods, enabling users to get premium, personalized, and cost-efficient service.

Pilotly is the first market research platform built for creative content, delivering detailed audience feedback rapidly to content organizations. Over $44B is spent globally on consumer insights and $10B of that is within the media insights space.

PlaBook is an innovative reading technology that uses artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and speech recognition to help children learn to read.

Smart Alto is an ISA-based technology company that helps real estate agents and teams qualify leads and land appointments.

SoHookd is an enterprise-based online wellness platform.

Sugar is a modern resident engagement platform that turns apartment buildings into vibrant communities.

SustainAble Home Goods is an ethical lifestyle brand with an emphasis on fair trade and ethical sourced home decor and sustainable living products.

Tanoshi is an ed-tech company that helps close the digital divide by providing educational, affordable, and safe computers for school-age kids.

Tapestree is a SaaS platform that helps companies scale rich and immersive small group facilitated discussions.

Transition is a career service platform bridging the gap between allied health training and employers to optimize student outcomes.

Uplevel connects companies with vetted freelancers & small agencies to fill marketing & communications gaps.

Vendoo helps e-commerce sellers manage their inventory and listings across multiple marketplaces.

Welfie is a digital health platform for families on Medicaid and communities of color.

Wiz Kid Learning is an online learning platform and community that provides children with various interest-based learning opportunities that develop key technical and knowledge-based skills, all while learning and connecting with other like-minded children in a safe online learning environment.

Wolomi is the first digital pregnancy community created by a Black nurse for women of color. The app helps women of color on their pregnancy journey to navigate the health care system for better outcomes.

Ziscuit is a 2-sided reverse auction platform that delivers instant savings to shoppers and high-value traffic to retailers. Ziscuit’s search engine algorithm instantly shops consumer grocery lists with neighborhood stores and suggests combinations of store options that save consumers $10-$15 per shopping trip. Retailers achieve procurement and inventory management benefits from accessing the aggregated demand.

Acclinate is a digital heath company diversifying clinical trials.

AfriBlocks is a SaaS-enabled freelance marketplace.

BestFit addresses basic needs like housing and food insecurity for students who cannot afford to stay in college, even with financial aid.

Billseye offers the first and only real time mobile call billing solution.

BingeWave is a No Code/Low Code solution and API for quickly building video and audio live streaming apps with interactive features such as polling, e-commerce, chat, and more.

Blue Studios is a live and on-demand Pre K to 12th grade STEM edutainment platform leveraging automation, synthetic media, and game design principles to create content cheaper, faster, and better, while also enabling the middle class of creators in the passion and gig economy.

Boddle is a gamified education platform for grades K-6 that leverages AI and gameplay to transform digital learning content into engaging learning experiences that are simultaneously fun, personalized, and effective.

BoxedUp is an on-demand equipment rental marketplace.

CLLCTVE is the portfolio platform connecting Creators to their next opportunity.

COI Energy is a digital energy management platform that detects and eliminates energy waste in buildings.

CustomerX.i is a Know-Your-Customer platform for restaurants and retailers helping them accelerate their digital transformation and increase share of wallet of customers.

DOSS is a voice-activated digital real estate assistant designed to radically evolve the way people search, service, and transact real estate.

EyeGage increases the speed and accuracy of drug detection with computer vision analysis of the eye.

A platform for hosting live talk shows between VIPs and fans from anywhere, broadcast everywhere.

Fêtefully is a virtual wedding planning studio making professional planning accessible for couples while enabling planners to make money in their spare time.

Fourth Party is the most feature-rich practice management solution for mediators, arbitrators, and negotiators.

The new Friends, Family, Fans & Funds for Black Founders empowering everyone to fund Black-Owned businesses from start to profitability.

FundStory is an all-in-one solution to help founders access and manage non-dilutive capital.

GeoCloud enables personalized and enriched, location based experiences.

Greentop Gifts brings diversity to every celebration.

Journey Foods solves food science and supply chain inefficiencies with software to help food and beverage companies efficiently feed billions better.

JusticeText improves criminal justice outcomes for low-income Americans by expediting the review of body-camera footage, interrogation videos, jail calls, and other audiovisual discovery.

Equipping educators, school-based clinicians, administrators and parents with evidence-based data and instructional support software tools that help students with learning disabilities achieve success in the classroom, and in life.

Through our software platform, Freeing Returns™, we are providing System Integration as a Service, starting with Omnichannel Returns Management.

Meetcaregivers is a Innovative Marketplace for Senior Care that connects seniors with all the resources they need.

Meter Feeder allows you to pay for parking by turning off your vehicle.

Mini City is a SaaS that obtains legal identification and life critical benefits for the homeless + homeless care providers

Mixtroz facilitates group gatherings using real-time data so that every human interaction is an opportunity for meaningful connection.

The nēdl app and web platform has been democratizing access to information and the microphone itself since 2017 by giving everybody their own live call-in radio show that transcribes, amplifies, and monetizes their words as they speak.

Oatfin enables companies to deliver cloud applications faster by helping transition from manual processes to self-service automation.

PeduL is a marketplace that helps corporations diversify their workforce, with scholarships.

Please Assist Me is a home management platform for multi-family communities to provide a fully integrated living experience for their residents.

Podpal is the all-in-one podcast management platform. We help podcast teams plan, publish, and promote their show without all the stress and clutter.

Promenade matches and connects military veterans to the critical resources that matter for their post-military journey.

Solving the nursing shortage by guiding non-degree healthcare workers along the path to becoming Registered Nurses

Cloud-based software solution that tracks student attendance data.

No code drag drop solution for mobile applications (wordpress for native mobile apps)

Seshie provides live and data-driven modern-day Learning & Development workshops for teams that improves mental health, retention & performance for employees.

Shamrck uses artificial intelligence to help schools make smarter decisions with student insights for career and technical education.

Sign-Speak is a real-time AI Sign Language recognition software that automatically translates American Sign Language (ASL) to English, and English to ASL.

Smarter decision-making made affordable - Leverage real time insights and analytics to increase cash flow and optimize your operations

Utopia Spa and Global Wellness is a one-stop shop for *wholistic living that delivers on-demand spa experiences and live wellness classes from around the world!

Swipe Credit's digital lending platform helps lenders grow by making it easy to create fully automated credit products and engaging customer experiences focused on social impact powered by artificial intelligence.

SynsorMed is a digital health company providing culturally relevant monitoring for underserved communities who traditionally lack healthcare support at home.

In under an hour, The Mentor Method helps employers and employees with a SaaS-enabled mentorship platform to increase retention and promote career advancement.

Thermaband Zone is a connected care ecosystem that equips women with a personal comfort device and data analytics to navigate menopause and beyond.

Tradeblock is a social marketplace that enables sneaker collectors to connect, explore each other's collections, and trade shoes with one another safely and securely.

unboXt platform creates deeper team connections by providing managers with personalized insights and recommendations to track and improve team motivation, morale and performance.

Improving the relationship between residents and home providers through education, data analytics, and community.

XR Sports builds personalized social media networks for Influencers, powered by social competitions and mobile games.

Relationship intelligence software for relationship driven industries (e.g., Private Equity, Investment Banking, Consulting)

We provide flexible and affordable financing for low-income college students

Alerje uses proactive patient design to improve patient outcomes and reduce the cost of care in the food allergy industry.

Aquagenuity™ is a data analytics platform that helps you find out "What's In Your Water?" (as easily as you check the weather) in real-time from any smart device.

Bandwagon helps artists, athletes, entertainers, and event organizers connect with their fan communities to deliver world-class personalized experiences.

Black Women's Wealth Alliance strengthens the pulse of the movement and momentum for the economic advancement and success of Black Women.

Brown Toy Box is a children's educational products company that creates STEAM kits, toys, games and digital content that centers and celebrates Black children.

Civic Eagle is a collaboration software for lobbyists and policy leaders.

Clubba (by Usit) is a virtual after school clubs for kids ages 7-13, led by college student counselors.

Countifi uses computer vision and machine learning to help clients save money in inventory costs. "We take pictures of your inventory and count it automatically, eliminating the need for manual counting.

CourMed is an healthcare enterprise software that also facilitates innovative delivery of healthcare products.

Courtroom5 is an automated legal toolbox for people in court without a lawyer.

Cyber Pop-up connects businesses to on-demand cybersecurity services powered by an army of vetted and highly skilled freelancers.

Deepr® is a product suite that is reimagining music data for creators, consumers, and content providers.

Edifius offers mid-sized businesses operating internal call centers a web platform to build and deploy AI conversational voice agents for customer service interactions.

Five to Nine is a workplace event program discovery, management, and evaluation software.

Florence is a labor and accredited, degree granting education platform for the healthcare professionals.

Freeman Capital is an investment app that provides a hyper-personalized wealth journey that simplifies comprehensive wealth management into a monthly subscription service.

GoLogic empowers small businesses to sell more faster.

Goodr empowers business and communities through with technology to reduce food waste and end hunger.

Healthy Hip Hop infuses cutting-edge technology, education and positive attributes within the hip-hop culture to improve learning environments.

HUED is a technology enabled platform that diversifies the patient-physician experience by connecting Black and Latino patients with culturally competent healthcare providers that specifically understand their physical, mental and cultural needs.

Infiltron’s solution empowers everyone to proactively secure their data and devices in real-time beyond the edge.

Jax is creating inclusion in the gig economy by renting cars to car-less people and empowering them to make money through gig work.

Juno is a a one-stop solution for you and your family’s day-to-day care needs that features exceptional hospitality, modern technology, and transparent prices that won’t break the bank. Juno brings the best of high-quality pediatrics, adult primary care, women’s health, and same-day care under one roof — with labs, x-ray, and ultrasound also on-site.

Just Add Honey provides unique tea experiences to be shared amongst friends, or during quiet moments in the comfort of your home or our tea house.

Kanarys is a SaaS platform that provides clear metrics to diagnose, benchmark and optimize diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace.

Knac is a SAAS recruiting platform that makes it easier for companies to screen and manage applicants in their pipeline. We help people not get ghosted. :)

Kommute is a way to communicate remotely through instantly shareable videos.

Laine London is a first-of-its-kind bridal shop upending the wedding dress experience by providing chic, high-end wedding dresses for rent vs. purchase.

Latched and Hooked Beauty improves the time Black women spend on styling their hair with the use of ready-to-wear, non-toxic, synthetic hair extensions.

Laundris is an autonomous supply chain management platform. We optimize and streamline top two expenses labor and linens (and other trackable items) for customers such as hoteliers, health care, and food operations. Our patented software provides data in real-time. As a result we reduce expenses and operating costs by up to 40%.

LifeWeb 360 is a digital space that helps friends & family use the sparkle of technology to collaboratively honor and storytell the life of a loved one who has passed.

LoanWell is an automated loan origination platform for community banks, credit unions, CDFIs and loan funds with end-to-end functionality for intake, underwriting, closing, servicing, and reporting.

LVNGbook provides customizable cookbooks for chronic conditions.

Make Music Count is a math curriculum and app taught through playing popular songs on the piano.

Make Music Count is a math curriculum and app taught through playing popular songs on the piano.

MantisEDU, Inc provides immersive high tech learning activities for students.

Mar Dat assists C-suite clients in digital marketing strategies, business data optimization, and digital transformation with a focus on people, process, and enabling technologies.

MedHaul is a tech-enabled marketplace that makes it easy to find and book transportation for people with special needs.

MindRight Health provides mental health coaching over text message to empower underserved communities to heal from trauma.

Music Tech Works helps television/film, advertising, video game, and podcast production companies quickly figure out who owns the rights to the commercial music they want to use in their productions.

Musicbuk is a music education marketplace that allows people to book virtual music lessons with world-class instructors.

MyTAASK automates time-consuming tasks and fosters a community of people to seek and exchange knowledge.

Nivelo reduces digital payments risk in real time; ensuring everyone has access to fast and secure money movement over the internet.

Optimal Tech helps clients get the smartest and most efficient power solutions.

Origyn is a community-based market tool connecting shoppers to products from community-based businesses.

Pharaoh's Conclave prepares youth for eSports careers.

Polaris Genomics, the precision behavioral health company, is using the power of genomics and machine learning to advance the diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders like PTSD.

Portrait Coffee is a specialty coffee company leveraging excellent product and hospitality to reimagine black representation in our industry.

Possip gives organizations the pulse on their diverse and dispersed community using routine text-message based pulse checks in over 100 languages and our insights platform - starting with schools and districts.

Productions.com is the job marketplace for productions that connects studios, music labels and corporate brands to vetted local crew.

Qoins helps people save more money and pay off debt faster by automating their finances and providing financial education.

Raxplay is an immersive music company enabling real-time live VR concerts.

SecondKeys unlocks the true potential of proactive property maintenance.

Shared Harvest | myCovidMD® provides residents with crisis resource in real time by real people.

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

At SOIL, we are combining Cleantech and IoT to build products for on & off-grid consumers with the focus of bringing power and connectivity everywhere.

SPRAISE is vegan body care that creates moments of skin praise, and makes clean beauty accessible to all.

Staat makes it super fast and easy for managers and their teams to have a unified, objective knowledge base to keep track and manage priorities and bottlenecks.

Stimulus is a relationship intelligence SaaS platform that uses data and analytics to help companies make better purchasing decisions.

Switchboard is a SaaS platform that expands the viewing audience of your live streaming content.

Tankee is a media company dedicated to helping parents protect their kids from inappropriate content while enabling kids to watch the gaming videos they love.

Toolbox is an on demand labor marketplace for skilled trade contractors.

TQ Intelligence leverages AI and Speech Emotion Recognition Technology to quantify and predict emotional distress severity for at risk kids.

TruDiary is an early stage digital health company that builds trust and strengthens communication between Black maternal patients and OB-GYNs by providing culturally relevant value based care, focusing on the specific needs of Black moms. Our goal is to change the narrative and make quality prenatal care accessible to all women, regardless of community or circumstance.

Our solution, PHOTO iD, streamlines the property inspection reporting lifecycle by automating the process of documenting the condition of a building structure or personal asset that may be damaged by utilizing voice recognition and AI technology through a virtual collaborative platform.

Upskill VR is a virtual reality training platform that specializes in empowering people to save lives.

Uvii is a SaaS company providing a hybrid solution for in-person and remote communication in education and enterprise using patented single source technology enhancing virtual collaboration with real-time data analytics.

Varuna provides visibility, awareness, and insights to building and utility water to enable them deliver clean water consistently.

Vibe Ride is the most dynamic fitness studio and is adding its No Plateau program to bring boutique fitness to your living room through deliveries of workout equipment paired with virtual reality fitness classes from the world’s best trainers.

Viledge is a corporate gifting platform that revolutionizes team building through curated experience-kits sourced from Black-owned brands.

Watch The Yard is a digital media company, and the largest online brand targeting Black college students and alumni. With a focus on news, videos, and delivering practical, culturally-authentic resources, the platform reaches over 11 million people every month.

Workform provides access to digital coworking spaces for the new way of work.

Wrinkle Free Laundry is a technology enabled laundry, linen & dry cleaning delivery service which is changing the way people do laundry.

ZeroStorefront is a customer acquisition and retention platform purpose-built for local businesses.

With our mission to drive global financial equity & inclusion, Zirtue empowers people to empower each other through relationship-based loans with bill pay transparency baked in.