News Read about the Capital Access Lab’s impact and stories from our participating funds. Capital Access Lab News Featured Facebook Linkedin Twitter Why I Always Have Two Jobs By Jewel Burks Solomon, Collab Capital | September 30, 2020 Since I’ve been able to work, I’ve worked multiple jobs. During summers growing up, I worked in the businesses started by my grandparents in Mobile, AL and passed down to my father and his siblings. You could find me doing everything from working the register at their BP gas station to preparing sandwiches in my father’s Subway. Black people literally have to work twice as hard to get half as much. Read more Future Returns: Financing Underserved Entrepreneurs By Abby Schultz, Barrons | August 4, 2020 Capital Access Lab – an initiative of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation – recently invested in five funds that are using alternative financing structures to support underserved entrepreneurs. Read more Removing Barriers to Capital for Entrepreneurs at the Kauffman Foundation By SOCAP | May 6, 2020 In a SOCAP podcast, Agnes Dasewicz, Capital Access Lab Lead, and Philip Gaskin, VP of Entrepreneurship at Kauffman, discuss the challenges entrepreneurs face raising capital, the Foundation’s effort to create systems-level change in entrepreneurial funding, and why this work is deeply personal for both of them. Listen Portfolio Facebook Linkedin Twitter January 2021 Thimble By Lolita Taub, indie.vc, The Community Fund | January 12, 2021 December 2020 Investment Firm Collab Capital Backs Black-Led Tech Startup Leading the Future of Music Licensing By Njera Perkins, AfroTech | December 11, 2020 October 2020 Journ By Kristy Tillman, indie.vc, Tomorrow Looks Bright | October 23, 2020 July 2020 The needle has barely moved on racism in investing. But this investor thinks this time is different By Lucinda Shen, Fortune | July 15, 2020 June 2020 Tim O’Reilly makes a persuasive case for why venture capital is starting to do more harm than good By Connie Loizos, TechCrunch | June 26, 2020 Indie.vc: Unicorns Are Out, Profits Are In By Jennifer Alsever, Medium | June 15, 2020 Collab Capital invests in black founder’s beauty startup Hairbrella By Madison Hogan, AtlantaInno | June 9, 2020 ‘Innovation Doesn’t Have A Color’ Collab Capital Targets $50M Fund To Invest In Black Founders By Mary Ann Azevedo, Crunchbase News | June 9, 2020 February 2020 Finally, A Capital Solution for Black Entrepreneurs Inspired by King’s Whole Dream By Justin Dawkins, Collab Capital | February 12, 2020 Indie.vc Cub Scouts By Bryce Roberts, Indie.vc | February 6, 2020 Pivotal Announces US$13 Million Revenue Based Preferred Stock Financing By Pivotal Systems | January 30, 2020 What We’re Reading Facebook Linkedin Twitter January 2021 12 ‘flexible VCs’ who operate where equity meets revenue share By David Teten, Versatile Venture Capital, and Jamie Finney, Greater Colorado Venture Fund | January 14, 2021 October 2020 Making the Case for First-Time Funds By Priya Parrish, Impact Engine | October 30, 2020 Building supportive ecosystems for Black-owned U.S. businesses By David Baboolall, Kelemwork Cook, Nick Noel, Shelley Stewart, and Nina Yancy of McKinsey & Co | October 29, 2020 September 2020 A Black Venture Capitalist Sees Challenges as an Investing Edge By Emily Flitter, New York Times | September 10, 2020 July 2020 Q&A with Founders First’s Kim Folsom: Helping diverse founders grow businesses with revenue-based financing By Dennis Price, ImpactAlpha | July 28, 2020 Founders need stewards, not masters By Mike Asem, M25 | July 7, 2020 Banks and investors aren’t helping small businesses enough. Funds like these could fill the gap By Bert Van Der Vaart, SEAF and Agnes Dasewicz | July 2, 2020 June 2020 Welcome to the Third Reconstruction By Ed Dugger, Reinventure Capital | June 18, 2020 Apply Resources