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How I Bootstrapped a Luxury Jet Business with Michael Darko S7 Ep. 6

Be Hungry But Not Thirsty When Pitching VCs with Arlan Hamilton S7 Ep. 5

Scaling Black Beauty with Leslie Roberson S7 Ep. 4

Investing in BIPOC Founders and Normalizing Black Wealth with Danielle Shoots S7 Ep. 3

Pull Up and Pitch to Win with Omi Bell S7. Ep. 2

"Milestone Season Ahead! with Michelle McKenzie S7 Ep.1 "

Changing the Funding Ecosystem for Afropreneurs with Fernando Cabral S6 Ep. 12

5 Fundability Factors for Building Small Business Credit with Jonathan Fodera S6 Ep.11

Strategies to Standout on Social Media, Market and Increase Revenues with Danielle Jeter S6 Ep.9

How I Show Up as Woman in a Male Dominated Industry with Vava Angwenyi S6 Ep.8

How to Win Business Grants with the Grant Lady Danita Doleman S6 Ep. 7

6 Characteristics of a Valued Business with Kevin Valley S6 Ep. 6

5 Ways to Improve Your PR and Business Communication with Phoenix Jackson S6 Ep. 5

I Am the Big Deal: Fundraising and Entrepreneurship Lesson Learned with Kadion Preston S6 Ep. 4

5 Things Women of Color Should Do to Improve Their Access to Capital with Adeola Adejobi S6 Ep. 3

Growing from Zero to One with Drew Glover S6 Ep. 2

What’s Keeping Me Here with Michelle McKenzie S6 Ep.1

How Foundation and Government Grants Stifle Social Innovation with Linc Kroeger S5 Ep.12

How to Win Grants to Fund Your Beauty Startup with Ezinne Iroanya S5 Ep. 11

What You Need to Know About Black Philanthropy and How to Benefit From It with Dr. Jackie Copeland S5 Ep.10

Investor Shares What Every Startup Founder Should Know About Structuring a Successful Board with Mahendra Ramsinghani S5 Ep.9

This White Male Investor Uses His Privilege to Help Underrepresented Founders Raise Capital with Steven Freidmutter S5 E8.

Family Business Expert Breaks Down the Secrets to Building Business and Family Legacy with Nike Anani S5 Ep.7

5 Things Women of Color Should Do When They Fundraise with Susan Jeffers S5 Ep.6

How I Raised $50M in Real Estate Capital with Martine Flowers S5. Ep.5

She Was Told If Your Fund Fails No One Will Ever Invest in Black Entrepreneurs Again with Kelli Jones S5 Ep. 4

She Quit Her Job After Two Weeks on YouTube and Built The Onyx Family Media Empire Without Funding with Rita Mitchell S5 Ep.3

Why Non-Dilutive Revenue-Based FInancing is an Alternative to VC with Melissa Winder S5 Ep.2

How I Used Corporate Sponsorships to Grow a Seven-Figure Business with Chantel George S5 Ep.1

How I Help Small Businesses Achieve Marketing Success With No Gimmicks with Lindsay Sims S4 Ep.12

Learn Why Equity-Free Funding is Not Really Free with Ropa Muromba S4 Ep.11

How We Funded 17 Supply Chain Tech Companies in Year One With A Small Fund with Brian Aoaeh S4 Ep.10

The 4 Rules of Traditional Banks and Wall Street and Why They Work Against You with Curtis May S4 Ep. 9

S4. Ep. 8 Mastering Marketing for Small Business Owners with Marketing by Monrae

What I Learned From An Angel Investor Transformed My Business with Nick Davis S4 Ep. 7

A White Business Man and a Black Preacher Join Forces to Raise a Fund That Targets Black Founders with Keith Daniel and Tom Droege S4 Ep.6

How this Entrepreneur Remained Resilient During the 9 Years it Took to Raise a Series A Round with Affiong Williams S4 Ep.5

How to Navigate Gender Bias and Fundraise with Confidence with Ada Osakwe S4 Ep.4

What this DEI Expert Thinks Will Make the Funding Ecosystem More Equitable For Black Founders with Aiko Bethea S4 Ep.3

How I Bootstrapped My Way to a Successful Business When VCs Said No with Walle Mafolasire S4 Ep.2

This Nurse is Relentlessly Building the Next Billion-Dollar Tech Startup with Funding From the Healthcare Community with Keisha Manning S4 Ep.1

How I Conquered Fear of Rejection and Increased Funding for My Business with Hadija Jabiri S3 Ep.14

Why I'm Avoiding Venture Capital to Build an ESG- Focused Company with Javion Blake S3 Ep.13

M&T Bank Helped Me Go From Selling Goods From My Trunk to a Supermarket Owner with Perpetual Amoah and Mballou Conde-Kouyate S3 Ep.12

Why Funding Immigrant Founders is Good for the American Economy with Chinedu Enekwe S3 Ep.11

Obama Speech Writer and Developer of the Technology Behind iHeart Radio Talks Fundraising for His Latest Venture, Nedl with Ayinde Alakoye S3 Ep.10

This Engineer+Investor is Raising a $30M Pan-African VC Fund to Help Confident+Smart Women Bring Needed Solutions to Market with Hema Vallabh S3 Ep. 9

Why More Female Accredited Investors Should Become Angel Investors with Lisa Friedlander and Stephanie Marshall S3 Ep. 8

Why Angel Investing is Addictive with Angel Investors Tasha Jones and Aurelia Flores S3 Ep.7

Learn Why Deal Flow to African Startups Has Been Growing with Africa: The Big Deal Co-Founder Max Cuvellier S3 Ep.6

This Healthcare Exec Turned Investor+Entrepreneur Believes That Investing in Women+Health=Wealth with Ann-Marie Hosang Archer S3 Ep.5:

With Support From The Right Investors This Entrepreneur is Helping Low Income People Avoid a Debt Trap with Raeesa Gabriels S3 Ep.4

This Marketer+Investor is Helping Portfolio Companies Increase Marketing Results with Chen Hindi S3 Ep.3

Despite Being Harvard and Yale Educated This Couple Struggled to Raise Capital Until They Moved From the US to Mauritius, Africa with Lucia Brawley S3 Ep.2

How Gender Bias in the Funding Ecosystem Keeps Good Businesses Out of the Market with Aysha Tegally S3 Ep. 1

This Doctor Grew Her First-Year Business to 6-figures Helping Black Female Physicians Swerve Burnout and Find Purpose with Dr. Omolara Uwemedimo S2 Ep.20

This Doctor Turned Investor Helps Healthtech Startups Connect to Capital with Dr. Loleta Robinson S2 Ep.19

Learn How Unconventional Capital is Connecting Early-stage African Startups to Seed Capital with Franziska Reh S2 Ep.18

Enabling Access to European VCs and Normalizing Investment into Black & PoC-led Seed-stage Tech Ventures with Jessye Bimono S2 Ep.17

How Lack of Succession Planning Costs Black Family Businesses and What They Can Do About It with Nike Anani S2 Ep.16

One of Africa's Top Investors is Backing Founders Turning Africa’s Biggest Challenges into Global Businesses with Adenike Sheriff S2 Ep.15

With Limited Funding This Young Kenyan Launched an Ed-tech Startup that is Transforming Kenyan Education with Kiko Muuo S2 Ep.14

Real Estate Investor Teaches People How to Buy Vacant Land With No Financing with Jantzen Young S2 Ep.13

These Angel Investors Created are Investing in African Women Building Profitable and Scalable Businesses with Torera Abiola and Aysha Tegally S2 Ep.12

Entrepreneur Helps Women Producers Connect to Markets and Increase Incomes with Comfort Adjahoe-Jennings S2 Ep.11

Young Ghanaian Engineer Designed a Machine That Helps Rural Farmers + Keeps Students In Classrooms with Jeffrey Appiagyei S2 Ep.10

College Friends Created a Crowdfunding Platform That Helps Smallholder Farmers Raise Financing with Seyram Kofi Mantey + Eugene Ofori Asiedu S2 Ep.9

The Black Opportunity Cost for Black Entrepreneurs with Tinotenda Chibebe S2 Ep. 8

WHERE’S THE FUNDING Trailer

How Female Founders Can Use Gender Bias to Their Advantage with Umulinga Karangwa S2 Ep.7

From Vegan Restaurant Owner to Nigeria's First Plant-Based Food Tech Company with Hakeem Jimo S2 Ep.6

Fund Manager Turned Entrepreneur Scaled a Beauty Business + Is Raising an Art Fund for Artists with Freda Isingoma S2 Ep.5

Private Equity Firm Is Going Against the Grain to Invest in African Countries Most Investors Avoid with Franklin Akunli Amoo S2 Ep.4

Business Advisor Shares Advice African Entrepreneurs Can Apply Immediately to Improve their Business Process and Results with Violet Nyondo S2 Ep.3

This Award-Winning Coach and Tech Founder Is on a Mission to Fund and Develop Wearable Tech Founders with LaKisha Greenwade S2. Ep. 2

BAYI Capital Is on a Mission to Bring Made In Africa Products to the Global Market with Temidayo Adebayo S2 Ep.1

Season 2: Intro - Thank You! and What’s Next for Season 2

Costs to Consider When Self-Publishing and Starting a Publishing Company with Morgan Limo S1 Ep.19

Why Microcredit is as Important in the US as it is in Africa with John Kavyavu S1 Ep.18

African Tech Founder Created a Contact Tracing App for Ebola Tracing in West Africa that Can Help with COVID with Evelyn Lewis S1 Ep.17

How the Founder of Mansa Colabs is Bridging the Entrepreneurship and Funding Gap on Two Continents with Samuel Suraphel S1 Ep.16

Brooklyn-raised and Nigerian-bred Social Entrepreneur is Developing to Spark a Generational Revolution in Africa with Seun Shokunbi S1 Ep.15

This Harvard Grad' Says Her MBA Didn't Prepare Her for Entrepreneurship When She Took Over the Family Business with Naa-Sakle Akuete S1 Ep.14

How I Used $30 to Build A Successful Skincare and Beauty Brand with Eugenia Akuete Ep. 13

How I Started A Tech Company and Raised Half A Million As A Non-Technical Founder with Nichelle McCall-Browne S1 Ep.12

How I Fundraised to Build A Clean Beauty Brand from Up-cycled Banana Waste with Shirley Billot S1 Ep.11

So Much to Say with Michelle McKenzie and Lydia Nylander Speak S1 Ep. 10

Why Funding for African Creative Sector is Critical with Mabinty Koroma-Moore and Wakiuru Njuguna Part 2 S1 Ep.9

How We are Creating Greater Development and Fundraising Impact in Africa with Mabinty Koroma-Moore and Wakiuru Njuguna Part 1 S1 Ep.8

Why Small Business Is Big Business in the State of Maryland with Daniel Koroma S1 Ep.7

Cuisine, Community and COVID with Margaret Kamara S1 Ep. 6

Why Entrepreneurs Should Hyper Focus on Sales and Profits to Grow a Successful Business with Desiree Young S1 Ep.5

The Economic Impact of COVID on Micro-entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets with Iddy John S1 Ep.4

How this Entrepreneur Remains Resilient Through the Difficulties of Fundraising with Francesca Opoku S1 Ep.2

How I Recovered From Failing in Big Box Retail and How to Avoid My Mistakes with Funlayo Alabi S1 Ep.1

WTF?: What This Show is and Why It's Important with Michelle McKenzie and Lydia Nylander S1 Ep.0