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Channel 4 and Lloyds Bank are funding free TV adverts to highlight the work of successful Black business owners. Will this benefit the wider community of Black owners

Black people make up 2.5% of the U.K.’s population; proper representation in venture would mean at least 2.5% of funds going to Black-led businesses.

Sound & Colour has released the second episode of the Tech Flix documentary series produced for client Nash Squared.

“The time for excuses is over,” Monder Ram, a professor at Aston Business School, said as he called for significant changes to the way that black and ethnic minority owned businesses were supported. Ram, the director of Aston’s Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship, had teamed up with NatWest to launch a report, called

Black women face barriers in the tech industry, but some sistahs are doing it for themselves

The founders March Muses, an inclusive Christmas decorations brand, say the programme is erasing Black women in business

Venture capital fund managers speak to Computer Weekly about the importance of innovation clusters to the UK tech ecosystem, and the need to develop further investment opportunities outside the South East.

The Libra 2.0 programme is designed to help underrepresented founders in the UK who are growing and seeking specific support for scaling up their business

Penn State’s College of Health and Human Development was highlighted with other partners on The Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City’s Times Square, for its two-year Venture Equity Project.

Announced today (Thursday 16th June) by Rachel Reeves, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, the start-up review will explore why some high-potential firms in the UK struggle to thrive in one of the most innovative countries in the world; and