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 September 2020 Calling Entrepreneurs to Action! By Melissa Bradley, 1863 Ventures | September 3, 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 2019 2019 Impact Report By 1863 Ventures What We’re Reading Facebook Linkedin Twitter September 2020 A Black Venture Capitalist Sees Challenges as an Investing Edge By Emily Flitter, New York Times | September 10, 2020 July 2020 Liquidity Tools for Emerging VC Managers By Esteban Reyes, Recast Capital and Shirley Schoenfeld, Seneca VC | July 29, 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, Capital Access Lab | July 2, 2020 June 2020 A New Platform For Emerging Managers By Esteban Reyes, Sara Zulkosky, and Courtney McCrea, Recast Capital | June 25, 2020 Welcome to the Third Reconstruction By Ed Dugger, Reinventure Capital | June 18, 2020 One of Silicon Valley’s few Black VCs says the industry has a systemic problem with race, but he’s hopeful the George Floyd protests are finally going to spark real change By Troy Wolverton, Business Insider | June 5, 2020 The Myth of Blackness in Venture By Reggie James | June 4, 2020 March 2020 Why We Need All Kinds of Capital for Recovery By Janice St. Onge, Flexible Capital Fund | March 13, 2020 Apply Resources