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A fellowship with up to $400k in funding for founders who haven’t yet committed to an idea!
A community for women looking to get in on the blockchain game
Several internships with Adobe Research
Help for introverts who struggle with the idea of networking
A whole lot of women winning
A few things we love on the pop culture front, including a hilarious REVERSE SCAMMER!
🗣From the Founder (Kamilah)
“America is back, baby!” Those were the words I heard someone yell as I walked along the river in downtown Chicago. With most cities in the U.S. fully reopened with no restrictions, it’s certainly starting to feel like we’re all back. Personally, I am so looking forward to creating in-person events for Rich+ Riot, like happy hours that will give us all a chance to meet each other! But I know and fully understand that the idea of everything fully opening again is a mixed bag of feelings for some and an avalanche of anxiety for others. So I’m curious to hear from you - how do YOU feel about the U.S. being fully open again? Comment below!
🎤 Pitch Competitions
Pitch for Progress Competition In this free competition, entrepreneurs who are making progress on any of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) can submit a one-minute pitch video and apply to join the Pitch for Progress Demo Day, an online event broadcast to thousands of global attendees and judged by top venture capitalists. The competition winner will receive:
$5K worth of PR services
A fellowship to attend any Founder Institute accelerator program
A free Expo Booth at ChangeNOW 2022
10+ dedicated Office Hours with top impact VCs
90% Discount Hubspot for Startups
Access to the Shopify for Startups program
🌱Mentorship / Fellowships
At the beginning of 2021, South Park Commons decided to begin an experiment to see what would happen if they invested in startup founders before they’d settled on an idea. They found a cohort of promising soon-to-be founders, gave them $400k in funding and the mentorship they needed to validate a market and iterate on ideas, and helped them get a company off the ground. It turns out they were on to something! They’re excited to open applications for South Park Commons Founder Fellowship's second cohort of fellows.
Article:The Introvert’s Guide to Networking
When I first set up shop as a young writer, I got loads of invites to networking events. Chamber lunches. Le Tip meetings. Breakfast clubs, after-work mixers. There are plenty of organizations and groups that welcome new members and can be sources of business leads.
I went to them all for a while. And I was miserable. I was also terrible at that kind of networking. I got few leads. Gave even fewer. Felt out of sorts, exhausted, like I didn’t belong. . Read the full article here.
Join Rich + Riot’s membership for access to more resources like this. Be a part of a community of women entrepreneurs who make waves and support one another while they do it. As a member of Rich + Riot, you will receive:
💌 Weekly Resources and opportunities are emailed directly to your inbox weekly.
🔗 “The Connect” Directory access - You will be listed on our directory and have access to all of our community members.
💻 Access to the community on a forum where you can connect with others 1:1
☎️ Live Office Hours- Opportunities to participate in live virtual Q&As and mentoring sessions with experts. You'll get full access to an archive of these sessions if you can't catch them in real-time.
🎟 Free tickets to networking events (when outside opens up again 🤞)
👚 Free candle or t-shirt mailed directly to you :)
👯♀️COMMUNITY
Blockchain Ladies Club is a fun, helpful, and supportive community for women passionate about breaking into the blockchain industry.
🔗 Opportunities
Excited about research on the cutting edge? Adobe Research is looking for graduate student interns to collaborate on state-of-the-art technologies across various research areas. Partnering directly with one or more researchers, interns will have access to robust computational resources and world-class product and design teams. Work by Adobe Research interns is presented at leading academic conferences and may be integrated into Adobe’s software, reaching millions of screens across the globe. Research and engineering internships Fall 2021 are now open to applicants pursuing Ph.D. and Master’s degrees. By 2021, all internships will be remote. Adobe is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
🏆 Women Winning
Currently Consuming Content
📖 Reading - Dare to Lead. I know that I am super late to the Brené Brown train, and I have to be honest, I didn’t want to like her books, but there is something to what she is saying. Damn, she got me.
💻 Clicking - I can not get enough of #BonnetGate. I get completely consumed with an online debate now and then, and this week, it was #BonnetGate. I know we have bigger things to discuss, and we’re so over-policing women's appearance (of any background), but here I am, totally consumed.
📺 Watching- Kitboga I can not stop watching this improve actor who practices his craft on SCAMMERS!!! I literally keep his show on in the background while working because it keeps me cracking up.
Rich + Riot was previously a product brand with an empowerment message; now, it is an empowerment community with just a few products. Rich + Riot is about empowering female entrepreneurship and encouraging collaborations.