5 years in: a renewed commitment to diverse founders and those building solutions for diverse audiences.
This October marks five years since humble ventures first started. As 2020 wraps up, I am thankful and grateful.
Like so many others, COVID and this pandemic have affected the health and safety of our family, friends, and our network on a global basis.
We are thankful to be ambulatory and currently surviving and we have learned a lot about a lot.
The lesson of 2020 has been to be like Water. And in 2021, our goal is to continue to Flow.
Some humble ventures stats since April 2020 — December 2020:
- 200+ Zooms
- 75 Medium posts
- 7 newsletters sent
- 70% subscriber increase
- 20 virtual pop-ups
- 38 design thinking workshops
- 120 pitches of our creds deck
- 33 investments
- $150K in grant funding to 50+ Black-owned businesses
- 200+ students taught
- Facilitated 1 innovation challenge
We’ve made some changes to our website to communicate our focus and direction. Take a look and let us know what you think.
A few highlights of our new changes (TL;DR):
Our Approach
- We continue to use lean startup, design thinking, and community power in our business model.
- We spend time either consulting or providing programming to early-stage companies, enterprise organizations, or fellow investors.
Our Fund
- We invest in businesses off our balance sheet and have launched our t-shirt fund to increase the capital invested in our dealflow. Buy your humblethread$
Our Team
- We continue to highlight the various partners such as Ogilvy Consulting, National Black Chamber of Commerce, Sparks Consulting Group, and Republic.
We appreciate problem solvers in search of fellow collaborators. Take a look at our updated website, and reach out if you think we might be able to help.
