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Our continued investment in Black founders and funders
For too long, Black startup founders and Black investors have been locked out of the funding necessary to succeed. In 2020, Black founders raised less than 1% of all venture capital dollars invested in the U.S. This disparity has not only hindered innovation, but also limited opportunities for economic opportunity, wealth generation and upward mobility. That’s why we made a series of commitments in 2020 to improve access to capital for Black founders and funders.
We’re three years into these commitments, and we continue to invest in the Black startup community. In that time, we’ve expanded our Google for Startups Black Founders Fund globally. We have now provided $30 million in non-dilutive cash funding (meaning without taking equity in the startup) and support to entrepreneurs in the U.S., Brazil, Europe and Africa, where earlier this week we announced the second group of recipients to receive funding. We’ve also allocated $100 million to Black-led venture capital firms, startups and the organizations that support them. Today we’re sharing the latest recipients of these respective programs.
The next Google for Startups Black Founders Fund recipients in the U.S.
We’re welcoming 50 more entrepreneurs to the Black Founders Fund. Their businesses are solving important problems. Welfie, for example, provides equitable healthcare to families across the country, and Tanoshi serves tens of thousands of students with educational tools. These companies aren’t just doing good; they’re also growing quickly and building sustainable businesses. Here are a few more founders from this year’s group and their plans for the funding.
In addition to $100,000 in cash funding, founders receive $100,000 in Cloud credits, hands-on support from Googlers and access to mental health and business coaching at no cost. Founders have told us this funding has provided the spark they’ve needed to hire, boost revenues and raise the additional capital critical to their growth. In fact, the recipients of our first $10 million in funding in the U.S. have gone on to raise 13 times that amount — over $139 million in follow-on funding after our investment. With the help of our people, products and resources, we know Google is uniquely positioned to catalyze the growth of Black-led startups.
Investing in more Black-led venture capital funds
A historic scarcity of Black investors has contributed to the sparse funding levels among Black founders. Black investors are more likely to have Black founders in their networks and more likely to empathize with business models serving Black communities. By supporting Black funders we’re able to increase both our reach and impact.
In 2020, Alphabet committed $100 million to invest in Black-led venture capital firms, startups and organizations supporting Black entrepreneurs. Last year, our Alphabet-wide team led by leaders across CapitalG, GV and Google allocated $60 million in capital to six Black-led venture capital firms, as well as Black-owned startups and nonprofit organizations supporting Black entrepreneurship and business. In addition to capital, these investors received training, technology and advisory sessions from experts across Alphabet and Google. Today, we’re sharing the news that we’ve deployed the remaining capital to a number of nonprofit organizations and the following Black-led venture firms:
- Black Tech Nation Ventures: a Pittsburgh-based technology venture fund that is majority Black-owned and majority diverse-invested and focused on wealth creation for untapped markets and underinvested entrepreneurs.
- Collide Capital: a Los Angeles and New York-based 100% Black-owned VC firm aiming to usher in a new era of venture capital where opportunities go to the most deserving, not the most privileged. Building off of the success of their top-quartile Fund Zero of 34 companies, the Collide Capital team has closed a Fund I to invest in founders with the lived experiences, courage, and grit to create solutions for the next generation.
- Concrete Rose: a Bay Area-based investment fund focused on using financial and social capital to build exceptional early-stage companies and close gaps for underrepresented talent. Concrete Rose also received funding during the previous capital allocation announced last year.
- Heirloom Capital Partners: an Atlanta-based investment fund founded by founder-operator and board director Tristan Walker. Heirloom aims to partner with the founders of disruptive, meaningful companies committed to developing culturally connected products and services that improve lives and serve the needs of people of color.
- Serena Ventures: a San Francisco-based investment firm that champions founders whose perspectives and innovations level the playing field for all types of entrepreneurs. Serena Ventures invests in products and ideas that unlock value for investors, doors for founders and opportunities for everyone to live better.
- Share Ventures: a Los Angeles-based investment fund focused on performance management. Share Ventures is a venture studio building the infrastructure to repeatedly discover, validate, and scale new companies.
- Zeal Capital Partners: headquartered in Washington, DC, Zeal serves as a category-specific early-stage investment franchise that partners with exceptional, diverse management teams. Leveraging their market-backed investment discipline coined “Inclusive Investing,” they invest in financial technology and future of work startups that use technology to narrow the wealth and skills gaps.
We’ve seen firsthand how this powerful combination of financial support with mentorship, training, mental health coaching and community contributes to helping fuel innovation, wealth generation and equal access to economic opportunity. And we will continue to find opportunities to support these incredible Black founders and funders. Next up, our Google for Startups Accelerator: Black Founders, which provides deep technical support for later stage startups, kicks off with its newest group of participants this fall. And later this year, we’ll bring together our Georgia-based Black Founders Fund recipients, investors, partners and more in Atlanta to celebrate those founders and share more about their businesses. We’re looking forward to seeing where these companies go from here.
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INBOUND22 What’s Next with Allyson Hugley from LinkedIn: Connecting with Future Buyers


The 2022 edition of HubSpot’s INBOUND conference is an interesting mix of live and streamed sessions. As a B2B marketer that relies daily on LinkedIn, I was really looking forward to the insights Allyson Hugley, Global Director, Customer Insights at LinkedIn Marketing Solutions* had to share in her streamed What’s Next presentation, Connecting with Future Buyers: Winning Mindshare to Grow Market Share.
With over 850 million members, Linkedin is the top of the mountain when it comes to data around business professionals and Allyson did not disappoint in sharing her insights. According to research from Business Insider, people trust LinkedIn more than any other social platform. That trust and the rich insights available are essential for B2B marketers in understanding how to most effectively attract and engage future business buyers.
Emerging macroeconomic and geopolitical pressures and industry convergence are reshaping the marketplace. At the same time, a new generation of workers is entering and reshaping the workplace.
As life and work intersect, B2C and B2B mindsets and needs are changing. To stand out, brands must demonstrate how they fit into and impact customers’ new-normal.

Image source: LinkedIn
New navigation tools – new concepts, frameworks, and metrics are needed to guide marketers toward the next opportunity – the future customers, buying groups and talent to achieve growth.
3 Keys to Connecting with Future Buyers
1. Break Through Barriers: Evolving Content Expectations
For Business Leaders, Managing the Future Is Paramount. Successfully guiding customers forward through an environment fraught with complex disruption is critical.
Confidence in C-Suite executives has dropped 11 points post covid (Deloitte) and at the same time, B2B decision makers say there’s been a huge increase in thought leadership content but 71% say less than half gives them valuable insights. (Edelman / LinkedIn)
What do buyers of the future want? 81% prefer thought leadership that offers provocative ideas that challenge their assumptions regarding a topic, over content that validates current thinking. (Edelman / LinkedIn). B2B buyers want content that stimulates their thinking to helo generate new ideas, not simply to maintain the status quo.
2. Create Mental Availability: New Outcome Models
Most B2B marketers have experienced that decisions are increasingly made by a committee of individuals averaging 6.8 people. Adding to this complexity the vast majority of B2B buyers are out market (95%) vs. in market to buy. This means reaching buyers who are not ready to buy yet is critical.
So how do B2B companies engage out market buyers to be top of mind when the time comes? According to LinkedIn B2B Institute research, B2B marketers need to focus on memories and situational awareness. Understanding category entry points is essential to staying top of mind during buying situations.

Image source: LinkedIn
3. Understand Future Buyers: Changing Buyer Demographics
Gen Z is today’s future buyer making up 27% of the workforce. To effectively engage this growing cohort, B2B brands need to start establishing relationships now.
One of the first things to understand is that Gen Z is leading the great reshuffle with job transitions up 80% year over year. Gen Z is also the most mobile generation with a migration rate at 23%. (LinkedIn).
According to research from PeopleGoal and McKinsey, Gen Z are career minded, crave stability, are analytical and well-researched, and have a high aptitude for social awareness.
Each generation has different learning agendas and content preferences. Allyson suggests B2B brands place their brand DNA at the heart of content and communication to build consistency and trust.

Image source: LinkedIn
Key takeaways from Allyson’s session:
Buyers’ bar for content is higher making it more challenging to breakthrough. You need to spend the time to truly understand what information will make an impact.
Understanding and utilizing Category Entry Points are required to create the situational awareness critical to capturing future buyers’ mindshare.
The next generation of buyers will be more mobile, technical and focused on business and societal purpose. Ignoring that different audiences have different preferences and learning agendas will be a critical mistake.
If you’re hungry for more LinkedIn perspective on B2B marketing, I’ll be doing my best to cover Ty Heath’s presentation on Friday, Category Entry Points In A B2B World – Buying Situations to Brand Sales.
*LinkedIn Marketing Solutions is a client of TopRank Marketing.
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Dati a spasso nel cloud: un’azienda italiana ha lasciato accessibili le scansioni dei documenti dei clienti
Il cloud è bello. Permette di accedere ai propri dati da qualunque dispositivo in qualunque momento, consente la condivisione e la collaborazione, riduce i costi aziendali. Ma quando è fatto male e configurato peggio, apre la strada a disastri di sicurezza e i dati personali diventano accessibili e rubabili da chiunque. Oggi vi racconto uno di questi disastri.
Mi arriva una segnalazione confidenziale tramite un’app di messaggistica sicura: un’azienda italiana ha un bucket Amazon completamente aperto e world-readable che causa un data leak gravissimo.
Traduzione: le scansioni dei documenti d’identità dei clienti di quell’azienda sono leggibili e scaricabili da chiunque usando un semplice programma di navigazione, senza dover digitare password o altro, in violazione di tutti i principi e le leggi sulla protezione dei dati personali. Nomi, cognomi, fotografie, tessere sanitarie, moduli con indirizzi di casa e date di nascita, insomma tutto quello che serve per un furto di identità di massa o per una serie di truffe online, è aperto e a disposizione di qualunque saccheggiatore.
Partiamo dalle basi. Un bucket è un contenitore di dati del servizio cloud di Amazon. Molti utenti comuni non lo sanno, ma Amazon, oltre a essere un immenso negozio online, è anche un grandissimo fornitore di servizi cloud. In pratica, numerosissime aziende di tutto il mondo affittano spazio sui server di Amazon e vi depositano i propri dati. Invece di costruirsi un cloud interno, con tutti i costi e le complicazioni del caso, creano un cloud sui computer di Amazon.
Il problema è che se questo cloud non viene impostato correttamente, i dati sono accessibili a chiunque, ossia sono leggibili da tutto il mondo: world-readable, appunto. Basta digitare in un qualsiasi browser il nome del bucket dell’azienda, che è facilmente reperibile o intuibile, seguito da .s3.amazonaws.com, e si ottiene un elenco di tutti i file presenti nel bucket.
A quel punto diventa banale creare un programma o script che legga questo elenco e si scarichi tutti i file del bucket della malcapitata azienda, creando una fuga di dati, ossia un data leak, di proporzioni epiche.
E in effetti il caso che mi è stato segnalato è particolarmente imbarazzante e grave. Ho verificato personalmente che i dati dei clienti dell’azienda, circa un migliaio di file, sono perfettamente accessibili: non faccio il nome dell’azienda per ovvie ragioni di sicurezza e mi limito a dire che si tratta di un nome piuttosto noto nel settore della fornitura di energia elettrica e di gas in Italia.
Vedo per esempio la carta d’identità di Francesca, che abita a Casalecchio di Reno, e anche la sua patente e la sua tessera sanitaria. Vedo i documenti di Aurora, nata a Bologna nel 1997, e quelli parecchio sgualciti di Roberto, nato a Prato nel 1975. Di queste persone vedo date di nascita, indirizzi di casa, fotografie a colori. E ce ne sono tante, tante altre, inconsapevoli del fatto che i loro dati personali sono a spasso sul Web. Se vi siete mai chiesti come fanno i criminali ad aprire conti correnti o abbonamenti telefonici o altri servizi senza usare i propri dati personali, ora avete la risposta.
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Ora che l’emorragia di dati è accertata, resta il problema di cosa fare. È impraticabile contattare i singoli utenti per avvisarli che le scansioni dei loro documenti sono accessibili via Internet e che quindi devono fare attenzione a eventuali attivazioni fraudolente di servizi a loro nome ed eventualmente denunciare l’azienda in questione per violazione delle norme sulla riservatezza dei dati. Gli utenti da contattare sarebbero troppi, e comunque molti di loro sarebbero diffidenti verso chiunque li contattasse con un avviso del genere.
Le vittime dell’errore informatico resteranno quindi, purtroppo, all’oscuro di tutto. Si potrebbe allora contattare l’azienda in questione e avvisarla. Ma chi mi ha segnalato il problema dice di averlo già fatto, senza ottenere risultato. L’ho fatto anch’io, trovando con fatica nel sito dell’azienda l’indirizzo di mail del responsabile per la protezione dei dati, e gli ho scritto avvisandolo che avrei raccontato pubblicamente la vicenda. Al momento in cui registro questo podcast non ho ancora avuto risposta. Ma un primo risultato sembra che ci sia: poco dopo l’invio della mia mail, i dati non risultano più accessibili. Forse la segnalazione ha avuto effetto.
Purtroppo capita spesso che le aziende facciano invece finta di niente e continuino a lasciare in bella vista i dati dei loro clienti nonostante siano state avvisate. In casi come questi si finisce per fare una segnalazione al Garante per la privacy, che prende poi i provvedimenti del caso, che possono includere sanzioni molto elevate.
Queste sanzioni per chi commette errori grossolani dovrebbero in teoria fare da deterrente e indurre le aziende a lavorare con più attenzione, ma non sempre è così. In ogni caso, le sanzioni non risolvono il problema che le informazioni personali degli utenti sono ormai disseminate su Internet e non c’è modo di riprenderle. E ovviamente dati come la data di nascita o il nome e cognome non sono modificabili in caso di furto come si fa con le password.
L’unica, magra consolazione è che almeno alcuni dei documenti hanno una data di scadenza, per cui fra qualche anno le loro scansioni non saranno utilizzabili. Nel frattempo, a noi utenti, ai quali viene chiesto continuamente di mandare scansioni di documenti per fare acquisti e attivazioni online di ogni genere, non resta che alzare la guardia, rifiutando se possibile queste scansioni e facendo attenzione a eventuali avvisi di attivazione di servizi o di acquisti sospetti.
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