Collab Capital Closes $50M First Fund to Invest in Black Innovators

Jewel Burks
Capital Innovation
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7 min readMay 26, 2021

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Collab Capital Managing Partners : Justin Dawkins, Jewel Burks Solomon, and Barry Givens

After over 18 months of fundraising (primarily in a global pandemic and over Meets, Zooms, Teams, and the occasional Webex), we are excited to announce the close of Collab Capital Fund I. We’ve garnered the support of 99 Limited Partners and are thrilled to have over $50M to invest in the best Black led early stage startups over the next few years. We have been intentional…

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Jewel Burks
Capital Innovation

saved by grace • partner at @collab_capital • Head of @googlestartups , U.S. • founder @Partpic (acq. by @Amazon ) • @howardu alumna • opinions are mine