Egk Starters

our mission egk starters’ mission is to provide transformative learning and mentorship experiences to early-stage bipoc startup founders to position them to raise capital and partner with investors in implementing strategic initiatives to fund more bipoc-led startups. what we do egk starters is a design-led, accelerator-like program for bipoc-led startups. our inaugural cohort will consist of bipoc-led startups based in birmingham, al. our job is to challenge the bipoc founders to position their businesses to meet a global need and work with them to outline steps to sustainably grow from a local customer base to a national or international audience. we are an international team of researchers at cornell university and northumbria university studying the current vc landscape and the impact of design-led initiatives on the allocation of angel/vc funding. our aim is to recommend data-driven courses of action that may guide future initiatives in allotting angel and vc funding to early-st