The fund reaffirmed its commitment to women of color entrepreneurs.
Arian Simone presents the Fearless Strivers New Orleans Grant onstage during the 2022 Essence Festival of Culture at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 1, 2022 in New Orleans.specifically for Black women.
The Fearless Fund said it will continue to focus on "helping under-resourced entrepreneurs who have been ill served by traditional capital markets for far too long." In a statement on the settlement, it announced a new $200 million debt fund with the goal of lending to more than 3,000 under-resourced founders.
AAER called the grant program "divisive and illegal" and claimed that it "encouraged the Fearless Fund to open its grant contest to Hispanic, Asian, Native American and white women but Fearless has decided instead to end it entirely."White women-founded companies take home 64% of "Diversity Investments" by deal count, meanwhile women of color-owned businesses only take home 10%, according to an analysis of Crunchbase data by venture capital firm BBG Ventures.
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