DEI

Our, diversity, equity and inclusion focus and goal is to offer strategic support and advisory, within our capacity, to startup entrepreneurs, regardless of their resources, from the earliest stages to develop their talent and establish them in viable and sustainable enterprises, thus transforming their horizons, and many times, uplifting their lifestyle and fostering the accumulation of intergenerational wealth.

We are sector agnostic, and we aim to offer services and opportunities to engage our services to founders without regard to race, color, national origin, age, disability, religion, or sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation).

We realize that Venture Capital has failed vast populations of founders.

For example, in recent years, only 2.1% of venture capital investments in the U.S. went to businesses that were founded solely by women, while 1% went to Black founders, according to Pitchbook. Less than 1% of U.S. deals go in favor of LGBT+ founders, according to VC firm Backstage Capital, and 37% of LGBT+ entrepreneurs choose not to “out” themselves to investors, for fear of breaking a potential deal. Moreover, disabled founders are 400 times less likely to receive VC investment. We have been in this space for years, decades now, and we have seen this reality play out. To deny this it to deny the facts. This is NOT sustainable.

Despite VC efforts which claim to be more inclusive, underrepresented founders still fail to gain acknowledgement from traditional VC and localized “VC Funds” or investor pools which claim to consider supporting diverse founders. What you will find is many of these localized small VC operations, which claim to diverge from the of traditional, noninclusive posture of VC, have taken a similar posture of and do not operate that differently than the major VC firms. In fact, many are similarly only chasing sexy, shiny objects and what they view as cutting edge disruptive businesses without regard to creating equitable founding environments or in mind of meaningful efforts toward sustainability. Further, non-profit VC funds and regional funds operate no differently. 

We realize our limitations

We are a small, closely held firm. In fact, we have never in the past solicited our clients. Our clientele has come to us organically and through our public engagements. Clients come to us, and our business has thrived on that. Our capacity for growth is limited to our desired level of quality engagement, and while we look to incorporate a new forward face to the firm and offer services more broadly, we know there is only so much we can do. What we do know and hope that our new offering of services will prove to be provided to a diversity of founders and sectors.