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Lynn Pitts

Lynn Pitts is an advertising creative director and copywriter who has developed campaigns for major brands in the U.S. and Canada. Her fiction is anthologized in Crossroads: Southern Stories of the Fantastic (Tor Books), Infinite Constellations (University of Alabama Press), and other publications. When she’s not at a keyboard, she enjoys travel, reading, film and television, museums, art galleries, and puppet theatre for adults. She lives in Brooklyn and originally hails from the bayou town of Houma, Louisiana. She doesn’t eat Creole or Cajun food north of Baton Rouge and is bitter about the popularity of boneless, skinless chicken breast and cropped wide-legged pants.

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Leveling the Playing Field: How Braze is Accelerating Growth for Underrepresented Founders and Building a More Inclusive Tech Industry

BET+ and Braze to Provide 1:1 Mentorship Guidance in Branding, Email Advertising, and Engagement Strategies to Select Companies through First-ever Partnership In 2023, startups founded by Black entrepreneurs in the US received less than 0.5% of venture funding, and woman-founded startups just 2.2% . To help address this imbalance, Braze, a leading customer engagement platform, has developed Tech for an Equitable Future, a product grant program. The initiative is designed to help underrepresented founders accelerate their company’s growth with the use of Braze technology, increasing their chances at securing future VC funding. The innovative initiative selects 20 startups from APAC, EMEA, and North America with founders from underrepresented backgrounds—including Black and women entrepreneurs. These businesses will receive 12 months of free access to Braze technology, as well as a range of supporting resources aimed at driving business growth and scalability. Each company will...

Lynn Pitts

Nov 4, 2024