Tope Awotona One of Richest Immigrants in US After Founding Calendly App Worth $3B
Forty-year-old tech entrepreneur Tope Awotona of Nigeria is the proud founder of Calendly, now worth $3 billion, putting his net worth at $1.4 billion...
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Ethiopian-American’s Startup StackShare Raises $5.2 Million in a Series A
A company that helps developers and engineers discover and compare software tools, recently secured a new round of funding to expand....
PopCom Captures Customer Data Through Facial Recognition Software
The company recently raised $1 million to bring this technology to market with the goal of making all self-service vending machines and kiosks smarter. ...
Bae App Proves Acquisitions Are the Name of The Game in Tech
After seeing the buzz and marketing genius surrounding Bae, Tagged decided that the founders Brian and Justin Gerrard should be part of the deal in...
10 of the Best Apps From Black Founders in 2016
Rather than seeking to get hired, some techies created their own opportunities. Here are our favorite apps launched by people from the African diaspora in...
Conquering the Pizza Industry with Her Robot Army
Julia Collins, along with her co-founder Alex Garden, launched Zume PIzza in Silicon Valley that enlists the aid of robots in its kitchen....
Textbook Refers to Slaves as ‘Workers,’ So She Creates Watchdog App
A new web app developed by associate professor, Dr. Brendesha Tynes, Rate My Media, is now available to crowdsource reviews of biased language in media....
Tech Innovator of the Week: Aisha Bowe, CEO, STEMBoard
While sitting on a review panel board for proposals from small businesses, mostly women and minority-owned, during her years at NASA’s Ames Research Center as...
An ‘Over-the-Top’ African American Tech Entrepreneur
Fact: African Americans are 30% more likely to consume OTT entertainment than other demographics. OTT stands for “over-the-top†content, which means any entertainment content that’s...
Tech Innovator of the Week: Kenneth L. Wright’s KleanCollar
“We’re looking to change the world one collar at a time,†says Kenneth L. Wright, the Founder and CEO of KleanCollar, Inc. Wright is somewhat...