Mar
2
6:00pm
Demystifying Venture Capital | Overcoming Racial and Gender Discounting
By Forge North
Join us on March 2 for Demystifying Venture Capital: Overcoming Racial and Gender Discounting. Paul Campbell and Chris Brooks, the founders and managing partners of Brown Venture Group, will host a conversation about capital-raising strategies for underrepresented founders.
Brown Venture Group envisions a world where fully funded Black, Latinx & Indigenous tech startups launch, scale, and reinvest enthusiastically. Based on their experience supporting BIPOC founders, Paul and Chris will share strategies for underrepresented founders working to raise capital without discounting the value of their work
Bring your questions for the 15-minute Q&A at the end of the discussion!
Agenda:
- 12:00 - Welcome + Introductions
- 12:05 - Brown Venture Group
- 12:45 - Audience Q&A
Meet the Presenters:
Dr. Paul Campbell is a co-founder and managing partner at Brown Venture Group, LLC. Launched in 2018, Brown Venture Group, LLC is a venture capital firm exclusively for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous technology startups and founders. Prior to launching Brown Venture Group, Dr. Campbell was a telecommunication sales executive as well as a serial entrepreneur, launching startups in IoT and media production. He was one of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journals 2021 40 under 40 recipients and was recently also listed as one of the Twin Cities Business Magazine’s 2022 top 100 people to know. Dr. Campbell has been featured in publications such as Forbes, Bloomberg, Black Enterprise Magazine, and Authority Magazine
Dr. Christopher Brooks is the proud son of a Jamaican mother and an American father. With a strong reputation as a results-oriented leader, Chris enjoyed a diverse 25-year career serving as an executive, educator, and change agent. He held leadership roles in several nonprofit organizations and served as a Professor at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. As a Professor he built 10 brand new courses and led academic learning trips to urban neighborhoods - both within the United States and in developing nations.
His chief passion is the intersection of faith, race, and economics, and he has focused his research and work on advocating for individuals, families, and communities caught in the vicious cycle of generational poverty.
He is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Brown Venture Group, a Venture Studio focused on BIPOC Technology entrepreneurs and the companies they start: investing in Brown Success.
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