{"id":5709,"date":"2020-07-02T16:45:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T23:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/?p=5709"},"modified":"2020-07-09T15:31:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T22:31:18","slug":"town-hall-on-diversity-and-early-stage-startup-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/en\/blog\/events\/town-hall-on-diversity-and-early-stage-startup-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Town Hall on Diversity and Early Stage Startup Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-medium-font-size has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color\">Now as much as ever, we must address the problems that have historically hindered equality in American institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lack of access to capital for Black people is an assuredly systemic problem in America and it is echoed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/en\/blog\/venture-capital\/want-to-be-a-data-driven-vc-heres-how-to-leverage-llms\/\">VC<\/a> space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M <a href=\"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/en\/blog\/startups\/how-to-choose-the-ideal-online-accelerator-or-startup-program-in-the-usa\/\">Accelerator<\/a> believes that it is important to maintain a dialogue within the fast-growing Los Angeles ecosystem in order to generate change. We have assembled an incredible panel of individuals with important perspectives on promoting equality in <a href=\"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/en\/blog\/investors\/stages-of-business-funding-comparing-private-equity-venture-capital-and-seed-investors\/\">venture capital<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event will be a town hall style to encourage open dialogue and healthy discourse. We warmly invite our <a href=\"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/en\/blog\/go-to-market\/programmatic-advertising-the-secret-weapon-your-startup-isnt-using-but-should-be\/\">startup<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/en\/blog\/pitch-deck\/why-your-pitch-deck-isnt-enough-mastering-investor-communication-to-secure-funding\/\">investor<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/en\/blog\/entrepreneurship\/from-inspiration-to-action-building-movements-and-communities\/\">community<\/a> to join us for this upcoming panel discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our panel of <a href=\"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/en\/blog\/pitch-deck\/why-emotional-pitching-outperforms-technical-presentations-the-key-to-winning-over-investors\/\">investors<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\/?page_id=5183\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><strong>Noble Drakoln<\/strong><\/a>, co-founder at M Accelerator Venture I<br><strong>Orie Ward<\/strong>, Acting Senior Program Director, Global Eye<br><strong>David De Jesus<\/strong>, partner at VU Venture Partners<br><strong>Gamal Palmer<\/strong>, Founder Global Eye <a href=\"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/en\/blog\/go-to-market\/understanding-price-elasticity-a-key-tool-for-entrepreneurs\/\">Entrepreneurs<\/a><br><a href=\"\/?page_id=5211\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><strong>Sunny Singh<\/strong><\/a>, Vice President at Tech Coast Angels<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facilitated by:<br><a href=\"\/?page_id=956\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><strong>Alessandro Marianantoni<\/strong><\/a>, founder-director at M Accelerator<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe frameborder=\"0\" style=\"height:330px;width:99%;border:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/forms.zohopublic.com\/maccelerator\/form\/TownHallonDiversityandStartupInvestment\/formperma\/d-Pm5kyszBOSmB0rNEg4jsymcZRQSYOpkwMa0mq-aJI\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Signup now and receive reminders and links.<br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is it important to welcome everyone? More than ever.<br \/>\nLack of access to capital for Black people is an assuredly systemic problem in America and it is echoed in the VC space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[727,789],"tags":[1121,702,757,696,725],"class_list":["post-5709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-venture-capital","tag-blm","tag-diversity","tag-investment","tag-startup-2","tag-venture-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccelerator.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}