500 Global hosted Mariah Lichtenstern, founding partner at DiverseCity Ventures, for a fireside chat to explore why DEI matters for early stage startups and how founders can implement DEI.

Serena Ventures partner Alison Rapaport Stillman finds that VCs still ignore products and services made for audiences they’re not familiar with, even those representing massive markets.

To better understand our diversity performance and signal our advocacy for D&I practices, we engaged Diversity VC, a non-profit organization.

Entrepreneurs across the United States – women, men, Black, Latine, Veterans, LGBTQ+ and more – are contributing enormously to the success of our economy. But do we know how much?

While we’ve always championed diversity as a critical part of our ethos, if 2020 taught us one thing, it’s that we need to do better.

Diversity not only fosters an equitable environment and sparks innovation, but it’s good for business. Data show that diverse teams produce higher returns than homogeneous ones.