ROSEN: What was the most difficult part of getting BGV to where it’s at now?
BLACK GIRL VENTURES: One of the challenges we faced while building Black Girl Ventures – just like every other Black woman founder – was access to capital. We’ve been successful at growing, building relationships and building a really great network, and therefore, we face those challenges head-on with networking.
One of the things I would say we uniquely face as an organization is the capacity to solve the problem because the problem is so huge. The problem being that Black + brown women are not getting access to capital + Black + brown businesses in general not having access to the things that they need to grow.
Where would you like to see your organization in the future?
Black Girl Ventures has a bright future ahead. We believe in a world where ALL ideas have a chance to succeed. We want to reach more cities in the U.S. with our fellowship program and our signature pitch competition. We also want to grow internationally, so we can spread our mission across the globe and change the world one pitch competition at the time.
