For the better part of a decade, the former founder of The Budget Fashionista harbored the idea for a business creation platform focused on Black entrepreneurs. The result: a new project called Genius Guild that is part incubator, venture studio and fund. Barbara Clarke, the founder and president of The Impact Seat, says she was interested in Genius Guild, even before the company had really formed. Genius Guild also fits into The Impact Seat’s thesis of investing in diverse and often excluded entrepreneurs. Genius Guild is launching after nearly a year of racial reckoning and social justice movements in the U.S. and beyond.

Source: Forbes April 05, 2021 18:11 UTC