Brown Venture Group

Ecolution Power Company supports the demand to move towards a net zero carbon footprint by capturing the ‘wasted’ kinetic energy of moving transportation, opening up the potential to eliminate more emissions and power cities across the globe with clean and efficient energy.

Big Navajo Energy is a Navajo-owned company focused on the development and deployment of efficient power generation technology, emphasizing sustainability and tribal community involvement in the energy transition.

Simpli-Fi Automation, Inc. leverages NASA's electronic nose technology to bring the sense of smell to artificial intelligence, enabling AI systems to detect, analyze, and interpret chemical signatures in the air. Their AeroVera product line includes solutions for health monitoring and environmental sensing.

Home Lending Pal is a technology-driven platform that aims to simplify the home lending process for consumers and lenders alike. The platform provides tools and resources to help users navigate the complexities of obtaining a mortgage.

Robocast is a pioneer in automated browsing systems, providing technology that allows users to seamlessly play content across various platforms. Their innovations include multimedia playlist engines and automated content delivery systems.

Warecorp helps enterprise companies with dataops for machine learning, enterprise integration, product development and support. We provide a variety of turn-key professional services, staff augmentation, and strategic consulting.

Go Moment uses IBM's Watson for its mobile app Rev1, enhancing guest engagement.

The Uptake is a nonprofit news organization focused on using community journalism as a tool to build racial and social justice. It emphasizes training individuals in reporting and covers a range of social issues.

Built on a national community of Black technologists and an integrated nonprofit-for-profit talent pipeline, providing structural access to Black operators and focusing on overlooked founders outside Silicon Valley. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, deliberately positioning the city as a national hub for Black venture capital while funding Black founders and developing Black venture capitalists as a talent factory for the next generation.

Growth-stage investor focused on companies that can deliver strong financial returns alongside sustainable, measurable impact.

Sixty8 Capital is a seed-stage venture fund that deliberately operates from Indianapolis to back Black, Brown, women, LGBTQ+, and disabled founders across the Midwest and South, arguing that coastal VCs systematically overlook innovation from these underrepresented groups in "flyover" regions. The fund is built on years of grassroots work running Black tech incubators and pitch competitions, and operates alongside Be Nimble Foundation to create an integrated platform spanning workforce development, accelerators, and pre-seed/seed capital—with a stated goal of creating 100 millionaires from historically overlooked communities.

Founded by Arlan Hamilton while homeless with no finance or tech background, Backstage Capital requires at least one founder to be a woman, person of color, or LGBTQ. The fund treats capital allocation as activism and argues that 'underestimated' founders are systematically mispriced assets that create alpha rather than requiring concessionary returns.

Oakland-based firm investing in industry-transforming startups that prioritizes building a more fair, just, and equitable society for low-income and underrepresented communities of color.