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One of Silicon Valley’s most exclusive clubs just got bigger. Here’s a list of Black women who raised more than $1 million in VC funding last year

January 25, 2022

Maia Tekle (Dispatch Goods), Elise Smith (Praxis Labs), Shanea Leven (co-founder of CodeSee) and Fatima Dicko (founder of Sugar) were featured on Business Insider’s list of Black female founders who’ve raised more than $1 million! Business Insider

Sugar raises $2.5M in seed funding to connect apartment residents

August 26, 2021

Sugar, a startup that aims to turn apartment buildings into “interactive communities,” has closed on $2.5 million in seed funding. A slew of investors participated in the financing, including MetaProp, Agya Ventures, Concrete Rose, Debut Capital, The Community Fund, Consonance Capital, Lightspeed Scout Fund and Jason Calacanis’ LAUNCH syndicate. Also participating were angel investors such as SquareFoot CEO Jonathan Wasserstrum, Ben Zises, Diran Otegbade, Oleksiy Ignatyev and Zillow board member Claire Cormier Thielke, also of Sequoia Scout Fund. TechCrunch