Black Operator Ventures

Livegistics is an AI-driven compliance and ticketing platform designed for high-volume industrial and energy operations, replacing paper tickets and manual re-entry with real-time control over waste and material operations.

Stimulus is designed to help people make money through a social network that replaces ads with giveaways.

Ruby Love offers a range of period underwear, swimwear, and kits designed for women and teens, providing leak-proof solutions for menstrual care.

Mayvenn is a company that specializes in providing high-quality beauty products, particularly 100% virgin human hair, through an online marketplace. They focus on empowering beauty professionals and ensuring customer satisfaction with their products and services.

ChurchSpace provides services related to church management and communication, although specific offerings are not detailed due to website security issues.

EdVisorly is a mobile app that simplifies the college transfer process for students, particularly those from community colleges, by providing AI-powered transcript evaluations and facilitating connections with universities.

Black Star Fund is one of only six US venture funds that are both Black-led and have an all-Black founder portfolio. The fund invests primarily in Black founders across the US and Africa with over 70% of its $12M fund going to Black women. The fund positions itself as building a unicorn factory for Black founders, arguing that a small number of Black unicorns backed by Black investors can move trillions in market cap to close the racial wealth gap.

Founded by Arlan Hamilton while homeless with no finance or tech background, Backstage Capital requires at least one founder to be a woman, person of color, or LGBTQ. The fund treats capital allocation as activism and argues that 'underestimated' founders are systematically mispriced assets that create alpha rather than requiring concessionary returns.

Seed-stage, thesis-driven VC focusing on tech and tech-enabled startups founded and led by promising Black and Latino entrepreneurs.

Built on a national community of Black technologists and an integrated nonprofit-for-profit talent pipeline, providing structural access to Black operators and focusing on overlooked founders outside Silicon Valley. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, deliberately positioning the city as a national hub for Black venture capital while funding Black founders and developing Black venture capitalists as a talent factory for the next generation.

Salt Lake City–based fund backing founders addressing underserved populations across 49 states, using a pedigree-penalizing scorecard and a 6+ month startup academy of specialist coaches to reach overlooked geographies.