The Weeknd, Pharrell, and Anderson .Paak, Among Others Invest In VC Fund To Help Close Racial Technology Gap

Essence Magazine:

By Jasmine Browley ·Updated June 23, 2022

The US has had a racial tech gap problem for a long time.

83% of executives at Big Tech firms are white and out only 6% of the tech workforce at Apple last year was Black. What’s more 5.5% of Google’s new hires were Black.

That’s why Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) was created by a16z was founded, and now some big names are backing it.

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