Bringing Equity to VC Funding for Black Founders

According to Crunchbase, 2021 was a peak year for venture capital funding to companies with at least one Black founder, to the tune of more than $4.3 billion invested. However, that still represents only 1.3% of all venture and growth equity financing to U.S. start-ups last year. Jeff Lamour of Synchrony Ventures and Nasir Qadree of Zeal Capital Partners join Beyond the Hype to share what Synchrony is doing-and what corporate America can do-to begin to close the gap.