Raising Capital as a Minority Founder

An episode of the Startup Hustle podcast, hosted by Startup Hustle, titled "Raising Capital as a Minority Founder" was published on January 7, 2022 and runs 66 minutes.

January 7, 2022 ·66m · Startup Hustle

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Episode Description

In this episode of Startup Hustle, Matt DeCoursey and Donald Hawkins, President, and CEO of kinly talk about Donald's experience as a minority founder raising over $20M in venture capital during a pandemic.

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This episode is sponsored by Full Scale:

https://fullscale.io/

Learn more about kinly:

www.bekinly.com

Listen to Donald's prior Startup Hustle podcast appearance:

https://link.chtbl.com/pipelineE

Listen to the "Kansas City Top Startups" overview episode:

https://link.chtbl.com/startuphustleKCtop

Read up on each of the "Kansas City Top Startups":

https://startuphustle.xyz/blog/top-kansas-city-startups-2022/

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