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A $10k grant from the makers of Stacy’s Pita Chips, A new angel investor community for women, Job opportunities in fitness, tech, and beauty, A roundtable discussion demystify the fundraising process
Here is what to expect is in this newsletter:
A $10k grant from the makers of Stacy’s Pita Chips
A new angel investor community for women
Job opportunities in fitness, tech, and beauty
A fund for Black-owned startups in Europe
A roundtable discussion that will help you demystify the fundraising process
🗣From the Founder (Kamilah)
We are back with another money Monday! Did you get a grant or go through an accelerator program you learned about through RICH + RIOT? We want to hear from you.
Thank you to all of you who have shared your wins from the RICH + RIOT Newsletter.
Don’t forget to get your ticket for RICH + RIOT Office Hours.
RICH + RIOT Office Hours - Building a Brand through Community. Join us May 27th at 12:00 pm PST / 3:00 for an interactive fireside chat with the head of community at Geneva and previously community manager at Glossier Kim Johnson. We will discuss how we can build community with ourselves as entrepreneurs and businesses to stand firm through both the current crisis and whatever the future holds.
🤑Let’s have some FUNding.
💰Grants
Created to help bridge the funding gap for founders, the Stacy’s Rise Project has been connecting and empowering small business owners for years. But Stacy’s Pita Chips wasn’t always a household name. Marketing, mentorship, and monetary support helped this brand rise from a humble sandwich cart to the nation’s supermarkets. And it’s these same resources that today’s entrepreneurs need to succeed – now, more than ever. So that’s exactly what Stacy’s is offering to 10 small business owners in their journey to make their dreams a reality with the latest iteration of the Rise Project.
The application opened May 7, 2021, and will close July 9, 2021, at 6:00 PM EST.
Stacy's Rise Project Finalists will be selected via a panel.
Eligible small businesses must:
Have between $25,000 and no more than $1M in annualized sales
Participate in the virtual Mentorship Program
Not be part of an accelerator program at the time of entry.
💸 Angel Investors
FxS is SoGal's newly launched angel investment community & syndicate to train & empower more diverse angel investors. Their mission is to fund impact-driven, women-founded, high-growth startups with more diverse angel checks, offering these newly-minted angels the opportunity to build long-term wealth. They believe by empowering women on both sides of the table (founders & funders), they can make true, everlasting change in the startup ecosystem from the ground up.
💼Job Opportunities
Techstars is a global platform for investment and innovation. They are hiring a VP of PR and Internal Comms. https://boards.greenhouse.io/techstars57/jobs/5276237002
Function of Beauty is a leader in customized beauty that creates personalized hair, skin, and body care products. They are hiring a CRM Analyst.
ClassPass is hiring a strategic and business-oriented Creative Director to help build and evolve the brand.
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📈 Accelerators
IBM Hyper Protect Accelerator is an investment-readiness and technical mentorship program run in partnership with Village Capital and IBM. The program supports impact-focused startups leveraging highly sensitive data to improve access to digital, financial, and healthcare services. The IBM Hyper Protect Accelerator has already supported 45 early-stage startups across the world and is now open to applications for Cohort 4. Check out Cohorts 2-3 here. No equity will be taken in your company by IBM nor Village Capital as part of the program. This year the program will expand to support more companies working on impactful data tech products.
💲 Venture Capital
A Google for Startups program giving access to funding to Black-founded startups in Europe. The $2M Google for Europe Startups Black Founders Fund will provide up to $100,000 in non-dilutive cash awards to selected European startups in the Google for Startups network paired with up to $220,000 per startup in Google Ads and Cloud credits.
VC Unlocked Silicon Valley Online taking place October 4 - 29, 2021, is the program for emerging leaders who want to shape the future of the venture capital industry. The program, created with Stanford Center for Professional Development, will share knowledge and give angels and VCs the confidence they need to make better investments.
You are very busy. We know this because we’re busy too. That’s why at RICH + RIOT, we have curated a network of like-minded women entrepreneurs to collaborate and share opportunities and experiences. This isn’t just another business advice newsletter. Our goal is to provide direct resources to help grow your business and increase your earnings. We know you’re going to get there no matter what. We’re just going to help you get there faster.
📆Events
RICH + RIOT Office Hours - Building a Brand through Community. Join us May 27th at 12:00 pm PST / 3:00 for an interactive fireside chat with the head of community at Geneva and previously community manager at Glossier Kim Johnson. We will discuss how we can build community with ourselves as entrepreneurs and businesses to stand firm through both the current crisis and whatever the future holds.
In this interactive fireside chat office hours, you'll:
Hear real-life examples of what it looks like to be part of a resilient community.
Share the practices and actions that you've found most helpful for building your community.
Learn approaches for proactively building resilient communities in your brand and your businesses to survive and thrive during crises.
Connect with other entrepreneurs and learn from their successes and mistakes.
Demystifying the Fundraising Process - May 26th, at 10 am PST.
Join Ulu Ventures, Inspired Capital, Unshackled Ventures & Pilot as they discuss the ins and outs of the fundraising process. From raising funds at every stage to common mistakes founders make and what makes companies stand out, you’ll learn what works and what doesn’t directly from the VCs and founders themselves.
🛠 Tech Tools - My absolute favorite things!
One of my all-time most used tech tools is a timer. Cuckoo is a productivity timer for remote teams. Such a simple tech tool that I use several times a day.
🔮Business Alchemy
Yall know I am with the WOO WOO! Let’s pull a card for the week and get inspired.
Fall Into my Arms: Surrender. Hold the opposites. Extremes of life.
The Great Mother ushered you in when you took your first breath, and she’ll be there when you draw your last. She knows how challenging life can be. That being human can be lonely and confusing. That the polarity and separation can be excruciating when your soul remembers the oneness of Source. But at the same time, it can be incredibly glorious and sweet.
So often, we see things as either good or bad – when things go well, we make it mean that we’re being rewarded and when things are bad, then perhaps we’ve done something wrong. However, we’re all here to expand and grow, and it’s through the extremes of life that we do exactly that.
You’re being invited to welcome the highs and the lows of the human experience – to let them initiate you more fully into life. The agony and the ecstasy. The beauty and the bitterness.
This life is but a single breath in the inextinguishable existence of your experience as a soul. The Great Mother wants you to hand over your loneliness, worries, hurt, sorrow, fears, burdens, and doubts. To lay them on Her altar. To fall fully into Her arms. Remember that while these extremes are difficult, they can also be magnificent. The more wildly the pendulum of your life swings, the more truthfully you can say: I’ve truly lived.
Starseed Activation: Place your hand on the portal of your heart and whisper the following:
‘I’m ready to embrace the extremes of my life. I lay all that I’m carrying onto the Great Mother’s altar and fall completely into Her arms.’
Card of the week from The Starseed Oracle.
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 entrepreneurship and encouraging collaborations.
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