Closing the

Equity Gap

Creating Wealth and Fostering Justice
in Startup Investing

An entrepreneur and a social activist remake the future of investing and business, offering a groundbreaking “win-win” roadmap for creating wealth and addressing inequalities by investing in groundbreaking tech companies that defy assumptions from Silicon Valley to Wall Street.

Closing the

Equity Gap

Creating Wealth and Fostering Justice in Startup Investing

An entrepreneur and a social activist remake the future of investing and business, offering a groundbreaking “win-win” roadmap for creating wealth and addressing inequalities by investing in groundbreaking tech companies that defy assumptions from Silicon Valley to Wall Street.

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Building A More Equitable Society

Companies backed by venture capital drive the U.S. economy, accounting for hundreds of billions of dollars in sales and profits. The problem is that most of the wealth created winds up enriching elites while the businesses funded by venture capitalists widen economic inequality. Committed to doing things differently, tech venture capitalists Freada Kapor Klein and Mitch Kapor launched Kapor Capital to prove that investing in gap-closing startups—companies whose services or products close opportunity gaps for both communities of color and low-income communities—is good business. Over the past decade, they’ve broadened the definition of success to include profits and accountability for the impacts a business has on employees, communities, and the planet, helping to launch close to 200 companies engaged in achieving social and economic justice while showing remarkable growth, with many valued in the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars.

 

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In the News

Read the latest articles on the efforts and successes of Freada Kapor Klein and Mitch Kapor as they continue to invest in Closing The Equity Gap.

Kapor Capital, Black-Led VC Firm Focused On ‘Impact,’ Raises $126 Million

Forbes
The funding, which makes Kapor Capital one of the largest Black-led VC firms by assets, will help it continue to invest in “gap-closing” impact-minded startups.

A Coalition of Tech Founders Bets Big on Public Infrastructure

Bloomberg
The new Upside Tech Alliance combines four startups that are seeking to solve problems like the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi.

These climate tech entrepreneurs are teaming up to scale equity-based solutions

GreenBiz
The Upside Tech Alliance is minimizing the individual sales calls its founding climate tech startups need to make to busy mayors and city planners.

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