The Transparent Collective alum moving book clubs online By Jessen O’Brien After Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, Lincy Ayala spent nearly five months without electricity. Ayala’s personal book collection became a kind of lending library for friends and family looking for analog entertainment, and sparking discussions on what they were…

Transparent Collective Team Spotlight: Meet James Norman We’re excited to introduce you to James Norman, Transparent Collective’s Partner and Co-Founder. Based in Oakland, California, James is also the Co-Founder of Pilotly, the first market research platform built for creative content, and a General Partner at Black Operator Ventures (Black Ops)…

We are excited to announce that we have selected 10 companies for this quarter’s Early Stage Program! We’re inviting 10 Black, Latinx, and womxn founders from across the country with promising tech products to join our intensive week-long program focused on the fundamentals of building a venture-backed tech business. Batch…

The Transparent Collective alum on elevating local talent and communities. By Jessen O’Brien Atlanta, Carolyn Pitt discovered, had a strange problem. An intellectual property and entertainment attorney, Pitt was struck by the fact that so many of her clients and friends were struggling to find work in the world’s busiest…

The Transparent Collective alum on luxury resale and the value of non-dilutive accelerators. By Jessen O’Brien If you’re in the market for a secondhand shirt or vintage platter, you’re in luck. From eBay to TheRealReal, there are dozens of brands that let users buy and sell secondhand goods online. But…

The Transparent Collective alum on reimagining solar and empowering low-income communities. By Jessen O’Brien Here’s a piece of good news: We may have reached a turning point in the fight against climate change. “They say the next decade is going to be the decade of clean energy,” says Steph Speirs…

On March 25, Transparent Collective hosted a virtual Ask Me Anything (AMA) session with Ali Rosenthal, founder and managing partner of Leadout Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in non-traditional teams in high potential markets. Transparent Collective hosts these sessions to increase exposure and access to Silicon Valley…

Transparent Collective is a non-profit that gives Black, Latinx, and women founders access to resources and connections to build successful tech companies. To date, we have helped 50 plus companies raise over $40 million in funding (and we’re just getting started!). We are dedicated to increasing exposure and access to…

The TC team is elated to introduce the 9 founders who participated in the 7th startup showcase, the second that TC has held remotely. The nine tech founders were invited to join the intensive week-long program focused on key aspects of founding and running an early-stage company. With access to…