Black Star Fund

Actively Black is a Black-owned athleisure wear brand committed to premium quality products that celebrate Black culture while uplifting and giving back to the Black community. The brand features collections such as the Michael Jackson collaboration and supports various initiatives including mental health access and HBCU athletics.

CEEK is a Web3 streaming platform that empowers creators to earn directly and transparently through streaming, sales, and licensing, providing content in various immersive formats.

Reviver has pioneered the development of the world’s first digital license plate and connected vehicle platform, modernizing the driving experience with innovative technology.

Partake offers a range of delicious, allergy-friendly cookies designed for inclusivity and enjoyment without the fear of allergens.

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.

All-Black GP team of active tech founders leads and oversubscribes pre-seed and seed rounds for Black-led startups, offering $1M–$1.25M checks, clean docs, realistic valuations, and Series A gap-closing support.

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.

Audacity Fund is a Web3 venture capital fund that invests specifically in Black and African-led crypto startups worldwide, with founder Erikan Obotetukudo bringing 15 years of global capital-flows experience and leadership of a 20-country network of Black crypto founders through Crypto for Black Economic Empowerment (CBEE). The fund focuses on building blockchain infrastructure that can scale to 8 billion people, particularly targeting Africa-first asset management and diaspora economic infrastructure like digital nations and crypto on-ramps rather than generic Web3 tooling.