Bambee founder talks about entrenched fundraising challenges facing Black founders – By Ron Miller (Techcrunch) / July 12 2021
Allan Jones says he had to move more carefully in the startup world
Allan Jones dropped out of college and spent a decade learning how to run a startup. In 2016, that education resulted in the launch of Los Angeles-based Bambee, which helps small companies by acting as their HR department with the goal of keeping them in compliance with government rules and regulations.
But he found getting funded a challenge in spite of his background. He said that as a Black man, he had to move more carefully in the startup world.
“I think it came as part of the complexities of navigating a mostly white male ecosystem, a mostly straight cis white male ecosystem that either helps you create some skills that make you really effective at the job, or generates so much resentment that it becomes hard to be effective. […] I think that I was always one comment away from the opposite direction [I ended up going],” he explained.
