The Latest Breaking News from Fearless Fund

Some CEOs tell me they prefer to support DEI quietly. I wonder what’s been scrapped or put on hold.

Conservative activists targeted the Fearless Fund and fintech Hello Alice. The suits are behind them, and the funds are back in action.

The firm, expanding its diversity initiative, zeroed in on data that shows the economic case for investing in Black women

Fearless Fund, an Atlanta-based VC firm, made headlines last week when a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Miami ruled that the firm suspend its Strivers Grant Contest. So, I thought I’d try to figure out what happens next and how Silicon Valley is…

In a 2-1 ruling, judges found grant program run by Black-woman owned venture capitalist firm ‘likely to violate’ Civil Rights Act

The panel of judges found that the lawsuit accusing the program of discrimination will likely prevail.

A U.S. federal court of appeals panel suspended a venture capital firm’s grant program for Black women business owners on Monday, ruling that a conservative group is likely to prevail in its lawsuit claiming that the program is discriminatory

From American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Fearless Fund Mgmt., LLC, decided today by the Eleventh Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Kevin Newsom, joined by Judge Robert Luck: [We hold that] the Fearless Strivers Grant Contest, an entrepreneurship funding competition open only to businesses owned by black women, [likely]…

Conservatives are taking legal action against public and private organizations that aim to aid women and people of color