Ujamaa.financial

@DarrelFrater Definitely interested and my business falls in your thesis.

I want to mentor a small group of founders, completely free. If I got a group of maybe 5 or so founders to meet for an hour once a week for 4 weeks, would anyone be interested in being apart of that?

@nic_detommaso Me :)

I’m looking to connect with incredible pre-seed women founders. Who should I know? 🔥

@Matt_Pinner 6

99% will fail to tell the answer

Jonathan Henry, Angel Investor and Founder of Partner Track VC linkedin.com/in/jonathan-he…

@DarrelFrater @drinkicks

Know any founders building in ClimateTech? I have a $100K investment opportunity that I would like to get them connected to.

👏🏽 Congrats to our 5️⃣ founders that won in our 2024 BLKtech Pitch Competition: @cprwrap, @ plait, @ Tinted Health, @Tuverl, @UjamaaFinancial!  Revisit our finalists blog to learn more about the startups: 📰 ➡️ 1871.com/1871-news-and-… #Blackfounders #BLKtech #blackentreprenures

@JeffROsuji @TintedHealth @aloa @BetsyZEO @1871tech Thank you Jeff!

Stiff competition today! congrats CPRWrap for winning the BLK Tech pitch competition first place prize $15,000 and @Tuvirl for winning second place and $10,000. Special s/o to @TintedHealth @UjamaaFinancial and @plait who all took home @aloa credits thnx @BetsyZEO @1871tech

@MacConwell Say that again louder for the people in the back!

Just a reminder, when founders say their company is focused on the Black community, it doesn't mean it's TAM is small or that it ONLY works for the Black community.

Meet the top 5️⃣ Black-founded startups competing in our 2024 #BLKtech Pitch Competition! @cprwrap @Tuverl @UjamaaFinancial @ Plait @ Tinted Health. 📰➡️1871.com/1871-news-and-… 👏Cheer on the top 5 w/ us on 6.20, followed by our #Juneteenth celebration! community.1871.com/networks/event…

@DarrelFrater I’d love to hear more.

Do we have any early stage founders building in Edtech? I have an investor writing checks between $1M - $3M that I would like to get you guys connected with. Please comment below and I'd be happy to share more information with you.

@alexisohanian No but horses will keep them occupied and their minds off boys.

Whoever invented sticker books is BRILLIANT. 6 year old is occupied for hours... do these work into the teen years?

@TheJalston Thank you, that would be wonderful.

Would love to help get the word out about you all, @UjamaaFinancial.

@jamalhbryant I love this prayer, and second this emotion!

@heistimi @TechProd_Arch 🚀

i may be gone from the founder life ( for now 😉 ) but i def haven’t forgotten about yall 🫶🏾 so im hosting an invite-only AMA tomorrow with the legendary @TechProd_Arch for black founders applying to the next batch of YC comment “🚀” & ill dm u an invite

Our final newsletter of 2023 is out! It discusses Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year, Scroobious' "moat", and features community member Dana Fry, founder and CEO of Ujamaa Financial. Read more here: buff.ly/47gk06Z

@heistimi This is why what we are both doing is so necessary. We have got to help and save ourselves, and we will!

“why don’t u raise a family & friends round?” me:

@alexisohanian Sounds like a life well lived. Condolences for your loss.

We laid my Grandfather, John Ohanian, to rest yesterday. “Great Grandpa” (to Olympia & Adira) was a man whose journey of 101 years (one month away from 102!) was a testament to resilience, dedication, and the enduring power of family. Born into the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide, his early years were marked by immense challenges. His parents, survivors themselves, instilled in him a deep sense of self-reliance and the importance of family. These lessons would become the cornerstone of his life. He was from a generation that was built different, forged in the fires of the recession, inspired to enlist in the US Army to fight in WWII, he ultimately earned a law degree thanks to a GI Bill at William & Mary.

He had a great career in the law, fighting on behalf of a wide range of Americans, but I really got to learn about this side of him during a @Reddit AMA ten years ago. I brought him onto Reddit for one of our site's famous AMAs and transcribed his crowdsourced interview with millions of redditors. I learned a lot about him from this experience. He didn't think anyone would be interested in his life. It was one of our most popular that year. We finished and he asked me “when does it start?” He loved it, he was just vibing out like we'd been having a conversation, a grandpa telling his grandson about his life. 
Self-reliance was a hallmark of my Grandfather, and I’m grateful for it. Grandpa, I know the road you walked wasn’t easy, but it has carried us through 3 new generations of Ohanians, achieving opportunities your parents, who endured a nightmare in their youth, could’ve only dreamed of. 🇺🇸🇦🇲💪

@jamesoliverjr That’s so awesome!!

So many people told me no one will pay to find a co-founder. Today, we got our first deposit from Apple for payments on our co-founder matching app from when we turned on the paywall a few months ago. Founders, don't listen to people. Keep building, testing, & learning.

@DominicMadori Congratulations that’s awesome!

oh hi i made forbes! "her motivation is to provide transparency in how money and power move within venture capital" forbes.com/profile/domini…