More Equity

Welcome to More Equity. In this episode, in celebration of Pride, we have Nicole DeTommaso, a Senior Associate at Harlem Capital, interviewing Amy Spurling, Co-Founder & CEO of Compt, an HCP portfolio company. Amy is both a groundbreaker as a CEO and a voice for the LGBTQ+ community. Amy discusses her journey as both a woman and LGBTQ+ entrepreneur as well as what she does to make her company...

Welcome to More Equity. In this episode, we have two Harlem Capital team members, Gabby Cazeau and Nicole DeTommaso, discussing early stage VC interviews. Harlem Capital has been on a mission to diversify not only the entrepreneurial ecosystem but also the investing ecosystem. In an effort to further our mission, Harlem Capital has launched the HCP Talent Platform on Hivebrite to provide access to...

Welcome to More Equity. Today, we’re bringing you a special Moms in VC episode featuring Aileen Lee, Founder & Managing Partner, Cowboy Ventures, Anarghya Vardhana, Partner, Maveron, and Deena Shakir, Partner, Lux Capital. Harlem Capital Principal, Kelly Goldstein leads the conversation with these power house VCs to learn from their experiences, perspective, and advice on VC and motherhood.  L...

Welcome to More Equity. Today, we’re bringing you a new episode from our Harlem Capital Founders Series – a snapshot on these Founders’ paths to launching their ventures, insights and learnings they developed along the way, and perspectives from overcoming the challenges they faced. Today, I’m talking with Yaw Aning, the Co-Founder and CEO of Malomo. Malomo allows businesses to turn shipment track...

Welcome to More Equity. Today, we’re bringing you a new episode from our Harlem Capital Founders Series – a snapshot on these Founders’ paths to launching their ventures, insights and learnings they developed along the way, and perspectives from overcoming the challenges they faced. Today, I’m talking with Nathalie Walton, the Co-Founder and CEO of Expectful. Expectful provides the leading meditat...

Welcome to More Equity. Today, we’re bringing you a new episode from our Harlem Capital Founders Series – a snapshot on these Founders’ paths to launching their ventures, insights and learnings they developed along the way, and perspectives from overcoming the challenges they faced. Today, I’m talking with Emily Hochman, the Founder and CEO of Wellory. Wellory is an anti-diet nutrition app that pr...

Welcome to More Equity. Today, we’re bringing you a new episode from our Harlem Capital Founders Series – a snapshot on these Founders’ paths to launching their ventures, insights and learnings they developed along the way, and perspectives from overcoming the challenges they faced. Today, we’re talking with Ruben Flores-Martinez, the Founder and CEO of CashDrop. CashDrop enables entrepreneurs and...

Welcome to More Equity. Today, we’re bringing you a new episode from our Founders of Harlem Capital Series – a snapshot on these Founder’s path to launching their ventures, insights and learnings they developed along the way and perspectives from overcoming any challenges they faced. Today, we’re talking with Morgan DeBaun, the Founder and CEO of Blavity. Blavity is the largest network of platform...

Welcome to More Equity. Today, we’re bringing you a new episode of our investors on the rise series—conversations on the career paths and personal passions of venture capital investors of color across the United States. Today, we’re speaking with KJ Sidberry. KJ is currently a senior associate at Forerunner Ventures and grew up splitting his time between Harlem and Connecticut. Beginning his caree...

Welcome to More Equity. Today, we’re bringing you a new episode of our investors on the rise series—conversations on the career paths and personal passions of venture capital investors of color across the United States. Today, we’re speaking with Julian Moncada. Julian is a first generation American originally from the Twin Cities. He currently works as a senior associate at Lerer Hippeau in New Y...

Welcome to More Equity. Today, we’re bringing you a new episode of our investors on the rise series—conversations on the career paths and personal passions of venture capital investors of color across the United States. Today, we’re speaking with Jillian Williams. Jillian Williams is a lifelong New Yorker and a principal at Anthemis. We explore Jillian’s career from her beginnings as an investment...

Welcome to More Equity. Today, we’re bringing you a new episode of our investors on the rise series—conversations on the career paths and personal passions of venture capital investors of color across the United States. Today, we’re speaking with Tyler Dean. A Chicago native, Tyler is currently an associate partner at Great Point Ventures. Tyler has a deep history in the venture capital industry,...

Welcome to More Equity. Today, we’re bringing you a special episode sharing 5 Lessons From 5 Years of Harlem Capital from the founding team. We will be speaking with Henri Pierre-Jacques, Jarrid Tingle and Brandon Bryant. In this episode, we will hear the founding team discuss a few lessons learned during the journey of building Harlem Capital like why brand matters, how to learn on someone else's...

Welcome to More Equity. Today, we’re bringing you a new episode of our investors on the rise series—conversations on the career paths and personal passions of venture capital investors of color across the United States. Today, we’re speaking with Megan Maloney. A current first year student at Harvard Business School, Megan served as a principal with General Catalyst in their San Francisco office....

Welcome to More Equity. Today, we’re bringing you a new episode of our investors on the rise series—conversations on the career paths and personal passions of venture capital investors of color across the United States. Today, we’re speaking with Hansae Catlett. As an investor at Bessemer, Hansae has worked alongside industry titan and cloud investor, Byron Deeter. Before Bessemer, Hansae began hi...

Ever wonder what it is like to be a Senior Associate at Harlem Capital? Well, you’ve come to the right place. In this two-episode season, we interview the Senior Associates at Harlem Capital, Gabby Cazeau and Kelly Goldstein, on how they went from being remote interns to working full-time at the firm. Take a listen to the second of two episodes in this Harlem Capital Alumni Interview Series. In th...

Ever wonder what it is like to be a Senior Associate at Harlem Capital? Well, you’ve come to the right place. In this two-episode season, we interview the Senior Associates at Harlem Capital, Gabby Cazeau and Kelly Goldstein, on how they went from being remote interns to working full-time at the firm. Take a listen to the first of two episodes in this Harlem Capital Alumni Interview Series. In thi...

Welcome to More Equity. Today, we’re bringing you a new episode of our people of color in tech series—a journey through the ups and downs of successful tech industry leaders from childhood to corporate life to creating innovation. Today we're talking with Tom Chavez, a serial entrepreneur from New Mexico. While neither of his parents graduated from college, Tom has generated over $1 billion in exi...

Welcome to More Equity. Today, we’re bringing you a new episode of our people of color in tech series—a journey through the ups and downs of successful tech industry leaders from childhood to corporate life to creating innovation. Today, we’re speaking with Ralph Clark. Ralph Clark, a CEO connoisseur”. He grew up in Berkley California with a single mother and was the first in his family to go to c...

Welcome to More Equity. Today, we’re bringing you a new episode of our people of color in tech series—a journey through the ups and downs of successful tech industry leaders from childhood to corporate life to creating innovation. Today, we're talking with Elias Torres. He grew up in Nicaragua in the midst of a Civil War, but moved to Florida in high school. His first jobs were at McDonalds and cl...

Welcome to More Equity. Today, we’re bringing you a new episode of our people of color in tech series—a journey through the ups and downs of successful tech industry leaders from childhood to corporate life to creating innovation. Today, we're talking with Albrey Brown, the head of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Airtable. In this episode, you’ll learn about how he founded Telegraph Academy an...

Welcome to More Equity. Today, we’re bringing you a new episode of our people of color in tech series—a journey through the ups and downs of successful tech industry leaders from childhood to corporate life to creating innovation.  Today, we’re speaking with Dawn Dickson. Dawn is a serial entrepreneur and the current founder and CEO of PopCom. In this episode you’ll hear about Dawn’s early career...

Welcome to More Equity. Today, we’re bringing you a new episode of our people of color in tech series—a journey through the ups and downs of successful tech industry leaders from childhood to corporate life to creating innovation. Today we're talking with Nick Caldwell, a MIT-trained engineer who is known for his ability to lead teams with hundreds and thousands of employees. In this episode, Nick...

Welcome to More Equity . Today, we’re bringing you part 5 of our female founders series —a collection of honest conversations with trailblazing female founders who are thinking big picture about the state of women in startups and tech. In this series, we’ll go deep on what it looks like to scale a business from the ground up, navigate a fundraising process, and overcome curveballs—all while defini...

Welcome to More Equity . Today, we’re bringing you part 4 of our female founders series —a collection of honest conversations with trailblazing female founders who are thinking big picture about the state of women in startups and tech. As the current head of Google for Startups U.S., Jewel Burks Solomon is on a mission to level the playing field for under-resourced founders in emerging US markets....