Phirst Market Ventures

A talent marketplace and community for under supported tech talent, helping individuals navigate their career paths in the tech industry.

Bright Ventures invests in Pre-Seed and Seed-stage ventures that will redefine the largest, highest-impact markets: fintech, digital health, and the future of work.

Honey Blowout offers prepoo hair products and moisturizers designed to protect hair during heat styling using the natural benefits of honey.

Trapezium Math offers evidence-based programs that accelerate foundational math achievement for K-12 learners, focusing on joyful and confidence-building math instruction.

Philly Experiences connects locals, visitors, and corporate clients to local Black history, culture, and communities through fun walking tours, themed party bus experiences, and digital guides, while supporting over 50 Black-owned and family-run businesses in Philadelphia.

Elari offers gluten-free, zero sugar, high fiber tigernut root cereal, promoting healthy living and sustainability.

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.

Sixty8 Capital is a seed-stage venture fund that deliberately operates from Indianapolis to back Black, Brown, women, LGBTQ+, and disabled founders across the Midwest and South, arguing that coastal VCs systematically overlook innovation from these underrepresented groups in "flyover" regions. The fund is built on years of grassroots work running Black tech incubators and pitch competitions, and operates alongside Be Nimble Foundation to create an integrated platform spanning workforce development, accelerators, and pre-seed/seed capital—with a stated goal of creating 100 millionaires from historically overlooked communities.

Microfund making $100K–$500K first checks into women-led tech companies focused on lifelong learning (early childhood to adult career), offering 25+ years edtech experience and access to educators, buyers, co-investors.

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.