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Kapor Capital wants its portfolio companies to progress in the areas of diversity and inclusion, which is why it’s launching the “Founders’ Commitment,” a four-part roadmap for startups to foster ...

Brian Dixon and Ulili Onovakpuri have already made 15 investments from Kapor Capital’s first fund to raise outside funding. The funding, which makes Kapor Capital one of the largest Black-led VC firms ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Kapor Capital has taken a first-of-its-kind step to get technology start-ups to be more inclusive: A diversity pledge. To encourage the young companies it invests in to hire more ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Mitch Kapor and wife Freada Kapor Klein will invest $40 million over three years in a set of initiatives designed to give women and underrepresented minorities a better shot at ...

@giorodriguez Kapor's "Latin@s in Tech" was one of the best pre-events this year at SxSW Interactive. Here's why. History lesson for the young-un's: Lotus 1-2-3 was the first "killer app" for the age ...

There’s an idea that’s long been gospel in the venture capital industry, that investing in companies that have a positive social impact is a money loser — impact investing is “concessionary.” But what ...

Kapor Capital has closed its largest fund to date, a $126 million investment vehicle set to back early-stage founders of color and social impact ventures. The new fund, which has been in the works ...

Mitch Kapor made his fortune designing the most famous spreadsheet program of the 1980s, but his favorite creation is an obscure personal information management app called Lotus Agenda. Its draw: ...

There’s an idea that’s long been gospel in the venture capital industry, that investing in companies that have a positive social impact is a money loser — impact investing is “concessionary.” But what ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fund signals a change in how Kapor Capital does business: Beyond being the first that is led by the two newly announced ...