Sam Sugarman

Fearless Fund invests in women of color-led businesses seeking pre-seed, seed level, or series A financing. Our mission is to bridge the gap in venture capital funding for women of color founders building scalable, growth aggressive companies.

Headline is a venture capital firm with teams on the ground in 8 cities around the world. We invest across geographies, stages, and sectors, from consumer and fintech to infrastructure and software. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global. Our Early Stage Funds, based in the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, back Early Stage companies locally, while our Venture Growth Fund invests globally from Series B and beyond. This allows us to see local trends up close, partner with winning founders, and lead rounds at every stage. Among the 300+ investments globally, current and former Headline portfolio companies include Acorns, Angi, AppFolio, Bumble, Bitwarden, Creditas, Farfetch, Fetch, Gopuff, Honeycomb, Mistral AI, NGINX, Numa, Pismo, Raisin, Scopely, Segment, SEMrush, Sonos, Staffbase, The RealReal, and Yeahka.

Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)

Fearless Fund invests in women of color-led businesses seeking pre-seed, seed level, or series A financing. Our mission is to bridge the gap in venture capital funding for women of color founders building scalable, growth aggressive companies.

M3 Partners is a corporate advisory firm that specializes in maximizing performance and creating long term value for its clients. We provide operational, financial and strategic solutions that help our clients identify inefficiencies, enhance performance and unlock value. Advisory services include: ​ - Operational Improvement - Turnaround & Restructuring Advisory - Interim Management - Creditor Advisory - Transaction Advisory

TEDCO enhances economic empowerment growth through the fostering of an inclusive entrepreneurial innovation ecosystem. TEDCO identifies, invests in, and helps grow technology companies in Maryland. Take our customer satisfaction survey and let us know how were doing: https://tedco.tfaforms.net/40