{"id":46884,"date":"2023-06-19T17:04:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T17:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/germanys-first-bipoc-accelerator-announces-first-10-startups\/"},"modified":"2023-06-19T17:04:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T17:04:18","slug":"germanys-first-bipoc-accelerator-announces-first-10-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/germanys-first-bipoc-accelerator-announces-first-10-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s First BIPOC Accelerator Announces First 10 Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themigrantaccelerator.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Migrant Accelerator<\/a> (TMA), a Germany-based, early-stage startup accelerator for founders with a migration background, including Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), has just announced its first cohort of 10 startups.<\/p>\n<p>TMA aims to create a softer landing and sense of belonging for BIPOC founders who encounter discrimination on a structural and individual basis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMigrant founders in Germany are overlooked and underfunded,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/de.linkedin.com\/in\/laila-zohaib?trk=public_post_feed-actor-name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Laila Zohaib<\/a>, Stuttgart-based startup coach and investor relations manager.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the 1960s, migrant led-businesses have served as the backbone of the local German economy and are either linked to the cities\u2019 ethnic hinterlands, which are often associated negatively or simply don\u2019t get credit at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The accelerator has onboarded more than 70 mentors, secured two sponsorships, and is growing a network of international partners.<\/p>\n<p>Founders will access individualized support led by migrant experts and founders, have exclusive VC office hours, and receive \u20ac6,000 ($6,500) cash prizes from global investment advisor ALARIN CAPITAL.<\/p>\n<h2>Meet the ten startups<\/h2>\n<p>Studeez \u2013 An innovative platform that connects university students to help them succeed in their exams.<\/p>\n<p>Founder: Ahmad El-Ali.<\/p>\n<p>Proteineer \u2013 This startup helps firms discover better biocatalysts using AI and High-Performance Computing.<\/p>\n<p>Founder: Joseph Heenan.<\/p>\n<p>MyBeautyHero \u2013 A clean beauty marketplace for conscious consumers of sustainable beauty brands.<\/p>\n<p>Founder: Diana de Castro.<\/p>\n<p>Kidsimply \u2013 An inclusive marketplace for kids\u2019 toys and books.<\/p>\n<p>Founder: Peter and May Kamya.<\/p>\n<p>Slumber \u2013 An AI-Enabled Medical Billing Software.<\/p>\n<p>Founder: Samim Multaheb.<\/p>\n<p>Deepfile \u2013 An AI-powered file and document search.<\/p>\n<p>Founder: Bayangmbe Mounmo.<\/p>\n<p>Myracle \u2013 A mixed reality learning app.<\/p>\n<p>Founder: Omkar Pimple<\/p>\n<p>CodeMe \u2013 A coding assistant software designed to help developers and non-coders write code efficiently and effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Founder: Angelina Ishnazarova<\/p>\n<p>DevisionX\u2019s Tuba.AI \u2013 A No-Code AI platform for labeling and training data to automate machine learning processes.<\/p>\n<p>Founder: Mahmoud AbdelAziz<\/p>\n<p>SafeStreets \u2013 An app that assists and supports affected groups of people by providing the safest routes while walking alone.<\/p>\n<p>Founder: Kira Dianova and Maksym Bondarenko.<\/p>\n<p>Each startup will participate in a 12-week online program with live workshops and 1:1 mentoring with founders, experts, and investors from Techstars, 10X Founders, FTTF, and many others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing a founder is tough, but being a migrant founder is even tougher,\u201d said Zakaria Jaiathe, founder and CEO of WAANDA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn top of day-to-day business challenges, you have to deal with visa, language, cultural differences, and a lot of other issues. I joined the program to tell every migrant entrepreneur never ever to give up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first cohort will pitch online on September 20.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/peopleofcolorintech.com\/articles\/germanys-first-bipoc-accelerator-announces-first-10-startups\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=germanys-first-bipoc-accelerator-announces-first-10-startups\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Migrant Accelerator (TMA), a Germany-based, early-stage startup accelerator for founders with a migration background, including Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), has just announced its first cohort of 10 startups. TMA aims to create a softer landing and sense of belonging for BIPOC founders who encounter discrimination on a structural and individual basis.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-46884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46886,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46884\/revisions\/46886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}