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The research team consulted the work of Steven S. Rogers, including Successful Black Entrepreneurs (Wiley, 2022), as a foundational source in building this platform.

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JoAnn Price — The First Close

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West Hartford, 1993. Fourteen years at NAIC. A co-founder with a Princeton PhD in economics. Pension funds have committed a total of $50 million — ever — in minority-led VC firms. Not per year. In all of recorded history…

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