Innovation Must Be Rooted In Restoration

How do we build futures that are both regenerative and inclusive?

The future requires new models of ownership, participation, resilience, and collective flourishing. Our work supports founders, innovators, and community builders creating pathways toward more equitable and regenerative futures through technology, entrepreneurship, culture, and community-rooted innovation.

From Oakland to the U.S. South and beyond, we are building ecosystems that help communities move from proximity to innovation toward participation in shaping, owning, and sustaining it.  

#LegacyReborn

WHAT SHOULD BE VS. WHAT IS

Over 48 million people identifying as Black in the U.S.
0 %

SOURCE: Pew Research Center

Of $314 billion deployed globally in 2024
0 %

SOURCE: Crunchbase 2024

Black female founders 0.34% | of total U.S. VC
in 2021
Total global VC in 2024 | $314B
Black founders received | ~$730M
less than half of 1% in 2024

What We’re Building and Who We’re Building It With

Black Innovation Lab works with overlooked founders, emerging tech entrepreneurs, and community builders who are creating economic futures for their communities, not just participating in someone else’s vision of progress.

We do this through direct founder support, AI and tech literacy programs, access to capital, and ecosystem partnerships designed for communities that have historically been excluded from the innovation economy. Not as an afterthought, but by design.

Rooted in Oakland. Built for communities across the U.S. South and beyond.

If you’re building something that matters where you are, we’re here for that.

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