Antonia Dean, Director of Startup Pipeline Diversity, Comcast NBCUniversal, and founders from SoloFunds and Honeycomb Credit, recently joined The VentureFuel Visionaries Podcast to discuss the impact financial challenges have on small businesses, especially those in underserved communities.
Rodney Williams and Travis Holoway are on a mission to make lending more equitable. In underbanked communities like theirs, they noticed family and friends relying on check-cashing operations or payday loan businesses to handle financial needs. There weren’t any fair, reputable options when people sought short-term loans.
Through programming and strategic partnerships, we’re able to deliver stories that amplify the experiences and perspectives of underrepresented founders. This year, we partnered with StartOut to bring their Diversity Beyond Recruiting panel to life.
Marguerite Pressley Davis is on a mission to help startup founders and business leaders become more financially educated. After working with Goldman Sachs, the Clinton Foundation, and Deloitte Consulting, Pressley Davis launched Finance Savvy CEO, a startup aimed at improving business financial literacy for small business owners and empowering profitable entrepreneurship through financially backed decision making.
It led them to launch Zoog, a mobile app empowering anyone to bring a book to life and become part of the story using AR masks, filters, and other visual overlays. Now grandma can record a video of herself using entertaining face filters. For example, if she’s reading Humpty Dumpty in Zoog, grandma’s face appears inside Humpty Dumpty’s egg body.
During the Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars, founders work alongside experienced entrepreneurs, business leaders, mentors, and subject matter experts who share their insights in building and selling highly successful startups. They learn about pitching investors and clients, testing their business models for long-term success, and more. The hard work pays off. In …
The CEO of creative agency 19th & Park explains that building a successful brand starts with owning your unique story. Modern marketing tools have empowered brands of all sizes to cultivate an audience. But it’s not easy. It takes authenticity, social media prowess, and a deep understanding of target customers to keep people engaged. Whitney …
Sumit Suman, Co-founder & CEO | Paco Paco is part of the 2021 class of the Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars. The 12-week accelerator helps startups in connectivity, media, and entertainment grow their companies and develop partnerships with Comcast NBCUniversal. Sumit Suman, Nitin Pande, and Sameer Narang have worked with early-stage …
Sarah Allali, Co-founder & CEO Moone (formerly Think Confluent) is part of the 2021 class of the Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars. The 12-week accelerator helps startups in connectivity, media, and entertainment grow their companies and develop partnerships with Comcast NBCUniversal. Sarah Allali and Nicolas Cabrignac have been working together for …
In 2021, Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs hosted a wide variety of experts, authors, and thinkers. They offered incredible advice on building an engaged audience, developing a winning culture, and working smartly. Here are the 10 best pieces of startup advice we heard throughout the year.
