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Oakstop founder, Trevor Parham, and Elisse Douglass, featured in @crunchbasenews for the Oakland Black Business Fund

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Elisse Douglass and Trevor Parham founded the Oakland Black Business Fund in June with an aim to raise a $10 million relief fund to help Bay Area businesses impacted by COVID-19, as well as a $1 billion investment fund to support Black entrepreneurs across the country, Parham told @Crunchbase News.

“There is a disconnect between mainstream capital markets and the value of Black businesses, especially if they are not doing a tech product that falls within the mainstream of other tech products,” he said.

Next up, the fund organizers will be working to find limited partners to invest in the first cohort of businesses. They also plan on deploying capital from the relief fund and computing the outcomes over the past few months.

“We are aware of the conversation around Black Lives Matter and racial injustice and we are doing something that takes a business approach to addressing some of the larger societal concerns people have,” Parham said. “Economics is not the only answer, but by investing in Black businesses, we are creating a response to overcome a lot of the challenges.”
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