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title: Meet the Women of Color Who Are Changing Corporate Culture — digitalundivided
description: "“Here’s a trash stat: In 2020, a year of record-setting venture-capital investment, Black- and Latinx-women-founded start-ups    got less than half of 1 percent of funding   . So yes, it is exponentially harder for women of color to launch companies—and yet they do. There are thousands each year who"
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 Written by [digitalundivided](https://digitalundivided.com/press/author/digitalundivided) | Sep 14, 2021 4:00:00 AM

# Meet the Women of Color Who Are Changing Corporate Culture

*“Here’s a trash stat: In 2020, a year of record-setting venture-capital investment, Black- and Latinx-women-founded start-ups *[*got less than half of 1 percent of funding*](https://www.digitalundivided.com/reports/still-building-project-diane-2021-update)*. So yes, it is exponentially harder for women of color to launch companies—and yet they do. There are thousands each year who choose not to be daunted or discouraged, and thanks to them, the face of American business is changing for the better.” *[Read more at Cosmopolitan](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/career/a37387973/the-new-c-suite/)

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