Accounting

Owner: Stacey Chineme Esimai

About: Our goal is to help remove barriers that limit individuals and small businesses’ freedom to create, innovate, and leave tangible legacies in their communities. We are also passionate about ensuring that families and individuals have access to financial freedom, regardless of their past and current circumstances. Let us Go Far With Elim!

Location: Worldwide

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Business Services

Owner: Alex Echols

About: As an advisor to both founders and companies throughout the world, I focus on coaching people through emotional intelligence and mindfulness while simultaneously consulting their business for growth. Past clients have included Top Tech Companies in Silicon Valley, Entertainment Companies, Sports & Lifestyle Brands, Nonprofits and State Departments of Education.

Location: Worldwide

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Owner: Angel Mills

About: Helping corporate professionals with high potential businesses enter full-time entrepreneurship with clarity, confidence, and a plan for success.

Location: Atlanta, GA

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Owner: Lori Williams

About: Chadash LLC is a multidisciplinary design and production agency. We provide exclusive, high-quality graphics for products, books, apparel, real estate and online media. We have a wide knowledge and experience base for marketable designs and how to be successful in creating and publishing books. We enjoy catering to the vision of our clients and helping them accomplish their business and personal goals through design and marketing.

Location: Dolton, IL

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Owner: Keisha Mabry Haymore

About: Elevate/Elevar is an entrepreneurship accelerator that supports Black and Latinx entrepreneurs in St Louis with access to capital, connections and investment readiness curriculum.

Location: St. Louis, MO

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Owner: Lesa-Kaye Holtham

About: I help community-based nonprofits learn and master the skills they need to win their first or next grant.

Location: Fairfax, Virginia

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Owner: Ubaldo Munoz

About: Our Business is geared to bring our clients wants and needs to life via 3d modeling and actual construction for all their remodeling or new construction Ventures.

Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Owner: Edwin Ore

About: To provide a smoother transition into the Data Industry to people of all ages.

Location: Hialeah, Florida

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Owner: Mikayla Taylor

About: I help purpose-driven entrepreneurs tell their authentic stories online through strategic copywriting and web design services.

Location: Marietta, Georgia

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Owner: Shala Price

About: PrimoStats is a searchable database of curated statistics. We help marketers add credibility to their content.

Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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Owner: Diana Waleska Mauricio

About: Rooted Resolutions (RR) is a business development resource hub. We service entrepreneurs and small to enterprise companies. RR specializes in business development with experts in business strategy, operations, talent acquisition, strategic consulting, UX/UI, web design, and branding. ​From strategic planning to innovative solutions, our focus is always on delivering transformative results and ensuring long-term sustainability. We create strong partnerships with our clients to build a customized plan of action that includes any, or all, of our services. From seed to sale we help you develop your business exactly how you imagined it. Our goal is to ensure your success! Our business solutions are grounded in quality data, market-driven results, and creative innovations.

Location: Worldwide

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Owner: Stephanie Navarro

About: Visually communicate your inventions through intellectual property design services

Location: Los Angeles, California

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Consulting

Owner: Dr. Rokeshia Ashley

About: Ashley Research Associates’ mission is to provide interpretation and implementation of key strategies of effective communication in health institutions, allowing the organizations to understand and connect with the people they serve, to stimulate growth of real relationships for better health outcomes.

Location: Miami, FL

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Owner: Kayla Lee

About: The Beautiful Soapbox is a business transformation company changing the way people and businesses see their work and ultimately themselves through holistic, integrated coaching services and processes that are innovative, sustainable, and practical with a capital “P.”

Location: Colorado Springs, CO

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Owner: Jordan Flick

About: The CARECG team holds decades of experience in community development and prevention, managing large-scale evaluation projects at the State, Tribal and local community level. Our team has held funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the Zumberge Foundation, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and number of State, Tribal, County and local organizations. We foster a collaborative evaluation process with researchers and evaluators at multiple system levels, implement environmental strategies, track results, and report to funders and policy advocates in user-friendly formats. Our services are comprehensive, creative, efficient, effective, and based on emerging research in the fields of prevention and mental health.

Location: Punta Gorda, FL

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Owner: Aundrea Collins

About: Collins Public Health Solutions, LLC is a public health consulting agency providing research and consulting services to clients including, but not limited to, data collection, literature reviews, reports, community needs assessments, program implementation and management, project evaluation, curriculum development, resume and cover letter reviews, essay editing, and other miscellaneous public health consultation needs.

Location: Baltimore, Maryland

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Owner: Sharnetta David

About: The CONNECT CoLab is a networking and consulting group focused on creating strong, vibrant communities and curating genuine, meaningful connections that drive and sustain business-building activity.

Location: Mount Vernon, New York

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Owner: Courtnay Phillips

About: I provide consulting services to businesses and individuals wanting to improve and expand services.

Location: Smyrna, GA

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Owner: Fortino Ramirez

About: Civil Engineering Firm

Location: Omaha, Nebraska

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Owner: Jomari Peterson

About: Strategy and Design for Crypto-economic systems

Location: Pittsburgh, PA

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Owner: Hector Correa

About: Hectori.co is a product development shop that specializes in user-centered design for websites and apps. We collaborate closely with organizations to research, plan, design, and implement products and services through continuous design feedback loops and co-creation workshops. Our goal is to create innovative customer experiences from complex problems so that organizations leave with a solution that resonates with users and a blueprint that will evolve with them as they grow.

Location: Los Angeles, California

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Owner: Tiffany Knowles

About: Serving the immigrant population in America through education, legal and business consultation

Location: Miami, FL

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Owner: Alexis Knaub

About: I do external evaluation, research, and consulting in postsecondary education particularly in STEM education.

Location: Michigan

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Owner: Hakim Williams

About: We conduct diversity, equity and inclusion audits and offer trainings.

Location: Worldwide

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Owner: Austin Peete

About: We are a internationally integrated brand experience agency providing a combination of UX Design Consulting and Marketing Agency service options.

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

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Owner: Tyonia Harris

About: Insightful Phoenix is a consulting firm focused on helping professionals and small business owners (like YOU) with travel & wealth building.

In addition to tax preparation and planning we provide several other services; bookkeeping, financial coaching, business development services, corporate and leisure travel planning. Regardless of where you are on your quest, allow us to provide the Revolutionary Wisdom and Insight® necessary to progress to the next stage.

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

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Owner: Monica Adams

About: To empower parents with the tools and resources needed to help their children plan for their future

Location: Tampa, Florida

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Owner: Elizabeth Alvarado Linares

About: Reu, Inc. specializes in providing consulting services to minority-owned small businesses. We help business owners capitalize on their unique products and services by providing financially, socially, and environmentally conscious management solutions to uplift the communities they serve while improving their bottom line. Our simple, personalized, and practical model equips minority-owned business owners with the tools to overcome adversity and thrive in an increasingly competitive economy.

Reu is on a mission to empower our communities to realize their wildest dreams.

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

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Owner: Sharon Washington

About: To cultivate individual & organizational growth, healing, and transformation.

Location: Philadelphia, PA

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Owner: Mathu Davis

About: Innovate, Rejuvenate, and Restore communities through an engineers approach.

Location: Philadelphia, PA

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Owner: Shaun Owens

About: Suite 65 LLC consults on the design of progressive, smart home spaces that can enable anyone to age in their home.

Location: Columbia, SC

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Owner: Ngoc-Tran Vu

About: I am a multimedia visual artist, cultural organizer and creative consultant. My practice evokes themes of familial ties, memories, and rituals amongst issues of social justice and intersectionality. In addition, I offer services in arts strategy, training, programming, fundraising and grant reviewing.

Location: Boston, MA

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Owner: Lotus Barron

About: The Lotus Barron Experience is both a creative haus and a strategy engine that is dedicated to bringing your wildest artistic and business visions to life. My services range from Graphic Design, to Branding (systems and strategy), Marketing Strategy & Research, Creative Direction, and anything else that may be of service to local business owners and clients. My job is to push the boundaries and boldly go where no candy shop or delicatessen has gone before.

Location: Philadelphia, PA

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Owner: Tatsyua Oiye

About: Custom development agency for studio/media companies

Location: Los Angeles, California

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Owner: Dr. Valencia Moses

About: Vibrant Coaching provides encouraging accountability for individuals or teams to move from where they are to where they would like to be personally, academically, and/or professionally. Let us help you be the BEST you on purpose!

Location: Worldwide

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Owner: Victoria Pham

About: My goal is to provide high quality evidence based medical care to patients at the population level. Because of such goal and as a double-boarded physician with a MBA in healthcare management, I collaborate with multiple healthcare systems and payer organizations to solve systemic issues while implementing mission-driven improvements.

Location: New York, New York

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Design

Owner: Arianna Vargas

About: Arianna Belle helps interior design enthusiasts easily elevate their spaces with impactful pillows custom made-to-order out of a curated selection of luxury designer fabrics. As a support to this, we offer a mini consult service that provides personalized recommendations and mock-ups to help customers choose the right pillows for their specific space and preferences.

Arianna Belle also serves interior designers and decorators by streamlining the process of getting custom pillows made, saving them time and hassle so that they can focus on actually designing.

Location: Camarillo, California

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Owner: Yasmine Nur

About: I help create big ideas and translate them into compelling visuals for brands and campaigns.

Location: Hollywood, Florida

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Education

Owner: Ciello Villa

About: My 10 Day Essay Challenge helps high school seniors write their personal statement in a carefully crafted way that ensures their unique voices stand out.

Location: Worldwide

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Owner: Kany Joa

About: At Basic Steps Learning Center, we aim at providing a safe learning environment with high expectations to all learners so that they can achieve their full potential and have high hopes for their future.

Location: Kent, Washington

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Owner: Andre Goddard

About: BEB4 empowers businesses, institutions, and individuals toward maximum productivity through customized education and training solutions. Regardless of discipline, BE4B implements instructional designs that leverage each client’s unique assets to fast-track progress towards their intended goals.

Location: Bew York, New York

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Owner: Thomas Garcia

About: CSLAP believes every student can attend and graduate from a college or university. CSLAP hosts college access workshops at high schools and provides near-peer mentorship to students. CSLAP enhances the college readiness culture throughout the Rio Grande Valley by helping high school students apply to college, graduate from college, and connect to near-peer mentors. In doing so, CSLAP aims to increase college enrollment and completion rates in the Rio Grande Valley.

Location: Pharr, Texas

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Owner: Robert Jackson

About: School Communities face enormous pressure to stay ahead of a constantly evolving learning environment while maintaining a certain standard of service to their broader school community. Set a vision and reach your goals with on-demand access to insights and tools built from our conscious data-tool design approach. A method meant to align metrics and mission.

Location: Washington, D.C.

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Owner: Shantel Nock

About: We assist parents and students with navigating the college and scholarship processes.

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

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Owner: Dr. Shariva White

About: Higher Ed Ventures is an educational consulting firm based out of Charlotte, NC. HEV was created to assist secondary and post-secondary entities invested in the achievement of historically underserved student populations with goals of closing achievement and opportunity gaps through building cultural competence, agency, and capital. HEV comes with over 13 years of experience in program planning, evaluation, research, training, mentoring, and coaching. The firm has a passion for taking the journey along with their clients to assist in any way to achieve equitable learning environments aiming to enhance graduation rates which cultivates educated diverse communities.

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina

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Owner: Jaclyn Delarosa

About:

Inno-V is an independent and full-service college admission consulting company with operations in throughout the entire United States.

We specialize in empowering students toward reaching their dreams. Whether you are interested in personalized study strategies, guidance in college selection, application and essay development, or gaining admission to highly selective colleges, we are education consultants with the unparalleled knowledge, experience, and commitment to serve your needs. Over the years, we have been able to help our students achieve incredible success through the most rigorous admissions processes.

Location: Fremont, California

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Owner: Chrystal Thomas

About: Interstate Scholars connects America’s underserved youth accross state lines and develops their leadership skills in order to create next-generation changemakers who approach our nation’s vast social issues with compassion, understanding, and competence.

Location: Baltimore, MD

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Owner: Kayla Baltazar

About: Nonprofit Educational Company

Location: Houston, TX

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Owner: Shamelle Yemofio

About: We empower students and families to succeed in the college preparation process.

Location: Prince Georges County, Maryland

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Owner: Manny Prieto

About:

The Los Angeles Music and Art School (LAMusArt) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization whose mission is to offer the community of East Los Angeles, primarily its K-12 population, with equitable and affordable access to multidisciplinary arts education programs.

​The services we provide as a cornerstone of arts education are integral to the community’s cultural identity. Since its founding in 1945 by Ms. Pearle Irene Odell, LAMusArt has served over 100,000 students, employed over 200 Teaching Artists, and provided over 2,000,000 lessons.

On the surface, our services provide opportunities for students to receive an arts education, but on a deeper level, our programs provide an outlet for creative expression, an alternative to involvement in high-risk behavior, a safe place to develop skills and confidence, and a means to a successful future.

We believe affordable and accessible arts education programs work to benefit the students and the community by expanding one’s world outlook, sharpening one’s creative skills, and contributing to one’s social, behavioral, and academic development.

Location: Los Angeles, California

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Owner: Michael Horton

About: Our mission is to help as many students as we can succeed in mathematics. As math, science, and technology become a major arena in the current world, we want to make sure that students are getting the math skills they need in order to be successful in the fields and beyond.

Location: Chesapeake, Virginia

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Owner: Cielo Villa

About: Road to Uni aims to democratize college access.

Location: Worldwide

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Owner: Shanava Saintolien

About: Saint Tutoring, LLC. is a tutoring company focused on providing quality tutoring to students of all ages and academic backgrounds through individual and small group instruction. ​

We provide tutoring in K-12 reading and math courses. Tutoring in math courses range from elementary level math (arithmetic) to college math courses (trigonometry, calculus, GRE prep, etc.)
Location: Tallahassee, Florida

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Owner: Samson Lin

About: The mission of Scholarship Junkies is to make college free for anyone in need and help them find the careers of their dreams via the appropriate training and internships. More than just providing the tools for achieving scholarship success, Scholarship Junkies strives to help students learn how to best articulate their talents, skills, and life stories through their own personal scholarship application process. Scholarship Junkies was created to provide students with an insider’s guide to the scholarship process from the perspective of students who have won national scholarships. Through articles and scholarship profiles, the information covered includes how to find scholarships, how to choose which scholarships to apply for, how to compile competitive applications, and much more.

Location: Seattle, Washington

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Owner: Shelly Briscoe

About: Design and development of online and instructor-led training courses

Location: Waldorf, Maryland

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Owner: Dr. Monica So

About: The So Lab aims to tackle sustainability challenges with nanomaterials. We specifically fabricate, characterize, and test solar cells, ion selective electrodes, and water filtration membranes. Simultaneously, our group offers underrepresented minorities and first college generation students a personalized and challenging research experience to develop technical, oral, and written communication skills. E

Location: Chico, California

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Owner: Israel Tovar

About: The Dream Teacher Project is committed to supporting and retaining first year BIPOC teachers while also equipping them with the financial literacy skills to build wealth for themselves, families, and communities.

Location: Worldwide

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Owner: Melqaam Shaw

About: I teach minority male students how to use education as a tool to design their lives

Location: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

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Owner: Chime Dolma

About: Education center for children of immigrants

Location: New York, New York

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Event Management

Owner: Patricia Leon-Guerrero

About: Experiences On Demand (“EOD”) believes that events are experiences curated in partnership with the client through building trusting relationships and taking the time to fully internalize the vision of each event.

Location: Washington, D.C.

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Finance

Owner: Mindy Ngo

About: In days of old, BridgeTowers were constructed to protect travelers of their valuable possessions as they used bridges to move past obstacles. Today, BridgeTower Capital is providing protected passage from traditional investment opportunities to the rapidly growing world of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ushered in by blockchain technologies.

Location: Boise, Idaho

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Owner: Omar Gutierrez

About: Echo is a financial technology company that offers an ecosystem for all people, both experienced and inexperienced, to learn about investing, share their investment portfolios and interact through our social media platform. What makes Echo unique is that we connect the new investor with someone they can trust and to benefit from that person’s investment wisdom by copying their portfolio (what we term “echoing”). Expert investors who have demonstrable track records monetize their investing skills in a way that easily and securely helps the broader investment community while benefiting themselves financially and professionally.

Location: Akron, Ohio

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Owner: Najaah Daniels

About: The Inclusive Capital Collective is a growing network of community fund managers and entrepreneur support organizations who have been designing and developing shared technical and financial infrastructure for aggregating and deploying financial capital and other resources to entrepreneurs and communities of color in the US.

Its purpose is to overcome systemic racism through equitable access to capital.

Location: Worldwide

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Owner: Chong Lor

About: Sharing and connecting folks with information about stocks, crypto, personal finance/investing, traveling, and much more.

Location: Sacramento, California

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Owner: Luis Molina

About: Uplifting individuals, empowering communities, and educating dreamers to achieve and sustain financial wellness and lifelong wealth.

Location: Los Angeles, California

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Food & Beverage

Owner: Karma Lee

About: Bobae focuses on “farm-to-straw mentality” and monthly creative menu with an emphasis on natural ingredients from local providers and farms. With all products made in-house, the small business stays away from powders and fake syrups. There’s just so many places that offer quick and easy powder or syrup-blended drinks and people’s idea of bubble tea, or even a good cup of coffee, is so different from the truth. I felt it was my responsibility as an Asian American to change the dialogue, allowing people to learn the different cultures of what tea should be.

Location: Seattle, Washington

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Owner: Valerissa Smith

About: At Chick’nCone, we offer fresh food, fast service, and friendly staff while giving each guest a post or hashtag worthy experience! Visit our location for delicious, portable chicken and waffles!

Location: Harlem, New York

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Owner: Rosaura Estrada

About: Our mission is for our clients to experience one of the finest Tex-Mex food and service with small town Texas hospitality!

Location: Madisonville, TX

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Owner: O’Shane Elliott

About: Comfort food with a global twist

Location: Miami, Florida & Houston, Texas

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Owner: Eunice Lam

About: A bowl of matcha is a way to inner harmony and balance of mind. We focus on creating calming moments to connect with ourselves and Mother Earth’s elixir: Tea. Taste the different blends of matcha directly from a tea farm in Uji, Japan, which has been growing tea since the Edo period. Experience zen and create your own matcha moments.

Location: Oakland, California

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Owner: Kristen Smith

About: Tre’s Street Kitchen is the food truck where midwestern cuisine meets southern soul. If you weren’t a foodie before, you will be! We serve dishes from scratch with the freshest ingredients. Our aim is to provide a high-energy, high-quality experience to our customers who are valued and greatly appreciated.

Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana

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Health & Wellness

Owner: Jenny Fernandez

About: Fly Together started when eleven pole dancers and instructors in the Boston area began discussing their dreams of opening a studio. All were from different professional backgrounds and in various stages of life, but they became friends, and later business partners, united by their love of pole. In 2019 they founded Fly Together Fitness with the goal of increasing the accessibility of pole dancing and pole fitness in the greater Boston area and creating a space in which anyone can grow and discover pole.

The studio is run as a community-oriented consensus-driven partnership. Decisions are made with the aim of best serving the pole dance community as a whole. Our goal is to create an enduring sense of pride and “togetherness” within this space.

Location: Sommerville, Massachusetts

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Owner: Fajr DeLane

About: Mentoring program that helps women & young girls become their best selves by having fun, being fit, and fabulous.

Location: Athens, Georgia

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Owner: Tiffany Oscar

About:Teach women to Live.Golden.Now through workshops and transformational life coaching.

Location: Washington, D.C.

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Owner: Nosheen Hayat

About: I help women with PCOS or hypothyroidism get in control of their hormonal imbalances with food and lifestyle changes.

Location: Gaithersburg, Maryland

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Owner: Nchedochukwu Ezeokoli

About: H4L’s mission is to provide trauma education and to support individuals and groups in transmuting trauma, pain, and core wounds into healing, growth.

Location: Chicago, Illinois

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Owner: Vernicca Wynter

About: To guide individuals and business professionals through mindfulness practices to improve social-emotional wellness and life balance, while also creating positive work cultures and healthy interpersonal connections. We offer online courses, one-to-one coaching, and guest speaking to virtual or face-to-face audiences nation-wide.

Location: Lauderhill, Florida

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Owner: Emilyn Sosa

About: Mondaze Medicine aims to disrupt grind culture by naming workplace trauma, fostering future-forward conversations, being in service of communities forced to work in the margins, and deepening remembrance of indigenous work practices. Mondaze Medicine is the co-creation of plant-led remedies and shared knowledge of healing rituals rooted in spirit that make for a more expansive work-life for all by engaging in anti-oppression work and visioning for our collective liberation.

Location: Brooklyn, New York

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Owner: Natasha Ward

About: Natasha Inspires, LLC offers holistic coaching, spiritual guidance, educational workshops, and e-deliverables to seekers and growers, by teaching, healing, and loving the whole person, so that they are inspired to live in freedom, joy, and wholeness. We inspire humanity to make themselves a non-negotiable.

Location: Worldwide

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Owner: Jaimesha Taylor

About: Orgaia Beauty integrates my anthropological interest with my passion for holistic healing/herbal medicine. Orgaia is an earth-conscious company focused on delivering a balancing experience for the individual’s sustainable skincare journey! My business has a purpose to teach and restore through skincare, to pour into customers and not just take. Physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically.

Location: Miami, Florida

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Owner: Areya Simmons

About: My mission is to provide healing in every way and to help people realize their unlimited potential.

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

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Owner: Kareemah Sellers

About:  Inspire Black Women and WOC to practice radical self-care.

Location: New York, New York

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Owner: Alita-Geri Carter

About: At The Commission for H.E.A.L.T.H., LLC., we’re passionate about being healthy, educating healthcare providers, and educating health consumers. We pride ourselves on integrity and our belief that having the knowledge bro make informed decision about one’s health and healthcare provision is a basic human right. Our lived experience gives us credibility in our field. We aim for each of our customers to be able to apply what they have learned to impact their communities.

Location: Bowie, Maryland

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Owner: Gabrielle Evans

About: Our mission is to provide representation in sexuality education. We address barriers to achieving optimal sexual health for communities of color as well as intersectional inequalities faced by our communities. We hope to increase sexual knowledge and awareness through education, community collaborations, national presentations, and advocacy.

Location: Houston, Texas

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Owner: Charmaine Scarlett

About: Vital Health and Wellness garner the best sea moss exclusively straight off the coastline of St Lucia. Our Sea Moss is ethically sourced from its natural environment. Our St Lucian Sea Moss is cultivated in its natural environment, and we are conscious of keeping the ecosystem in balance. Therefore, we let the environment to replenish itself before harvesting.

The company is owned by partners Charmaine Scarlett and Shaughn Cooper. Charmaine Scarlett is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) with extensive experience in Health Education, while Shaughn is a photographer, entrepreneur, and health and wellness enthusiast with a knack for sales and marketing.

The founders of Vital Health and Wellness understand that finding natural and holistic remedies can be difficult and costly and would like to remove the cost barriers for their clients in the search to utilize natural and ethically sourced holistic remedies.

 

Location: Upper Marlboro, Maryland

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Legal Services

Owner: Greg Dann

About: Immigration Law Firm

Location: Windsor, Connecticut

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Owner: Sharde Simpson

About: We are an entertainment law firm providing legal services to creatives in need.

Location: New York, New York

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Literature/Publishing

Owner: Tiffany Christmas

About: Everyday Christmas Publishing provides books, information, content, etc. for educational and entertainment purposes.

Location: Pascagoula, Mississippi

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Owner: Jasmine Johnson

About: JMM Books, LLC is a small black owned, family oriented publishing company. We strive to meet the needs of all readers by writing and publishing books that not only stimulate the young mind but also serve as guides for adult readers as well.

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

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Owner: Dr. Rokeshia Ashley

About: JBlack and Brown girls are socialized to hide away from the sun to maintain or have a fairer complexion, rather than seeking out the sun as a nutrient. #SunFlowerChild changes this narrative by celebrating Black girlhood, and tackling colorism. Spurred from published research, #SunFlowerChild provides a remedy for colorism and color caste systems to encourage Black and Brown girls to love, care for, and protect their skin. #SunFlowerChild depicts a day in the life of an inner-city girl. While playing with her friends at the park, pool, and her front yard, the girls protect and love their skin, and use the sun as nourishment to grow, just like sunflowers. Support our girls by sowing into our girls by gifting a copy to your daughter, niece, or a special little girl in your life.

Location: Miami, Florida

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Marketing/Advertising

Owner: Alex Grady

About: We offer photography services and help people fortify side hustles through proven frameworks and actionable guidance.

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

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Owner: Kwabena Ackie

About: Digital Marketing Services for Small and Medium Businesses

Location: Austin, Texas

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Medical Devices

Owner: Dr. Debbie Lin Teodorescu

About: SurgiBox aims to make surgery safer and more accessible for both patients and healthcare providers – anytime and anyplace patients need surgery.

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Owner: Dr. Isaac Rodriguez

About: At SweetBio®, we leverage the powerful benefits of Manuka honey in surprising new ways to bioengineer the next generation of regenerative products. Wounds, regardless of location, are complex and require a multifaceted approach for healing, yet current products have a singular, restricted ability. Manuka honey is one of few materials capable of this advanced approach, however it is unusable for advanced treatments in its messy, short term and topical form. Our technology, MX™, leverages the benefits of Manuka honey without its limitations to unlock a highly demanded, triple-action impact on the key offenders preventing healing. Through a patented synthesis of Manuka honey with gelatin and hydroxyapatite alongside our trade secret manufacturing to produce solid sheets, MX™ helps to create the optimal healing microenvironment. Our initial product, APIS®, has shown to reduce bacterial load, decrease inflammation, and increase growth factors to the wound site in vitro *.

*The claims resulting from in vitro testing have not been reviewed by the FDA and are not considered within the current cleared indications.

Location: Memphis, Tennessee

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Mental Health Services

Owner: Yasmine Tucker

About: Creative Counseling and Studio is a mental health clinic that provides individual and family therapy for teens struggling with: anxiety, depression, attachment issues, behavior problems, trauma, bullying, social stressors, juvenile probations, addictions, divorce, couples conflict, communication problems, sibling conflict, addictions support for parents and grandparents, vocational stress, family conflict, domestic violence, and complex trauma. We provide telehealth and face to face counseling. In addition, Creative Counseling and Studio provides business coaching to therapists that want to open their private practice via The Creative Practice Incubator. The Creative Practice Incubator online course and coaching makes it easy for therapists who want to launch and scale their private practice and earn more income.

Location: Omaha, Nebraska

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Owner: Jennifer Stratford

About: To support individuals with learning how to heal themselves emotionally and more efficiently and effectively navigate their lives.

Location: New York, New York

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Owner: Jasmin Jones

About: Liberation Psychological Services a mental health private practice that strives to provide culturally-responsive, trauma-informed care to members of the community.

Location: Syracuse, New York

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Owner: Dr. Shalena Heard

About: Purposeful ACTS, LLC is a specialty practice dedicated to helping individuals discover their strengths and areas needing intervention through psychological Assessment, Consultation, and Training. Purposeful ACTS offers services including comprehensive psychological assessments, consulting services, clinical supervision, and/or specialized training. Our goal is to provide all clients with a deeper understanding of themselves, loved ones, and/or organization through an individualized approach aimed to meet their specific needs. Overall our purposeful action plans, intervention tools, and recommendations aim to promote the healthy development and success of all clients who utilize our services. ​

*Clinical services are currently offered to residents across the state of Maryland, virtually and in person. Consultation and training services are available to individuals, groups, and organizations in any location.*

Location: Washington, D.C.

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Owner: Luis Cortez

About: To help individuals dig at the roots of their problems. Teach them not to just hack at the leaves.

Location: Meridian, Idaho

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Owner: Stephanie Anyakwo

About: To provide effective mental health services to Individuals, Children, and Families.

Location: Torrance, California

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Owner: Stephanie Anyakwo

About: Seoul Counseling Center seeks to improve the lives of individuals and families in Korea and beyond by infusing Evidence-based Counseling Practices with the values of putting clients first, seeking understanding, and believing in people.

We are committed to the processes of self growth, exploration, and the scientific philosophy of staying curious, seeing connections, believing that small things matter, and knowing that it’s never too late to change the world from within.

Location: Seoul, South Korea

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Owner: Jennifer Franco-Rodriguez

About: Guide clients towards acceptance, build hope, and maintain wellness.

Location: Mesa, Arizona

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Non-Profit

Owner: Brianna Lockett

About: Blessed To Inspire You was founded on the core principle of raising spiritual awareness for all people. With belief in Jesus, and that he died for everyone and not one set specific group. My goal is to dispel the myth that religion is the drive of spiritual oneness with Jesus. However, spiritual oneness is built from a soul open to Jesus which has to be willed in spirit.

Location: Chicago, Illinois

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Owner: Izer Martinez

About: Providing equitable and accessible opportunities for students with language based learning differences to benefit from education and participate in society.

Location: Chicago, Illinois

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Owner: Mercedes Pickett

About: Earth’s Remedies is a hub of developmental resources, connecting disenfranchised communities to free education, financial literacy, career-readiness, business consultation, health & wellness, and violence prevention programs. The unemployment rate, the low housing opportunities, the lack of fresh produce, and the high crime rate within our communities indicts the lack of resources, and the lack of resources on the west-side of Chicago is the driving force behind our youth’s gravitation towards crime, as a means of financial stability.
Earth’s Remedies is establishing connections with resource centers, community leaders, small businesses, families and other organizations to help build bridges where the community is divided. Developing the community requires adequate resources, activities and opportunities to within; however, disenfranchised communities are disproportionately targeted through housing discrimination and redlining.
Earth’s Remedies was founded on Earth Day of 2016, connecting scholars to free tutoring services and developmental resources. In 2020, we launched a Call To Action, ‘Save The West Side’, that fundraised more than $65k for 26 small, black and brown owned businesses enduring financial hardships during the pandemic.

Location: Chicago, Illinois

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Owner: Bakari Height

About: We create tactical urbanist projects to attract people to public transit

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

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Owner: Tonya Akwety

About: Educate and bring awareness to our local community about the local black maternal mortality and morbidity and black infant mortality.

Location: Auburndale, Florida

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Owner: Brook LaFloe

About: Niniijaanis One of Ones’ mission is to assist Indigenous families & communities to traditionally serve the whole child to reclaim and affirm our children’s identities and education.

Location: St. Paul, Minnesota

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Owner: Andre Fuqua

About: Occupy Vacancy is a public art initiative working to highlight the cultural heritage and architectural history of St. Louis’ Northside.

Location: St. Louis, Missouri

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Owner: Shakisha Davis

About: STIGMA Inc’s mission is to educate, advocate, and empower young girls to overcome the stigma of growing up fatherless through a comprehensive program that builds self-sufficient women of integrity, resilience, and leadership.

Location: Dillon, South Carolina

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Owner: Jenny Yu

About: Studio YU is a digital gathering place for art enthusiasts from around the world to create for a cause, elevate sustainable art practices, and support artistry that has been vetted by the organization for originality and social responsibility. We believe that the arts play a critical role in building a healthy society, enabling cross-cultural understanding, and improving the overall quality of life. As such, we are on a mission to advance the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations via the creative arts.

Location: Princeton, New Jersey

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Owner: Robert Jackson

About: Unite marginalized communities through arts entrepreneurship

Location: Houston, Texas

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Owner: Thelron Pleas

About: The mission of Towering Your Success is to secure and maximize financial resources to foster innovation and educational change for public and private organizations that serve students in high-need communities.

Location: Macon, Georgia

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Owner: Rhonda Taylor Bullock

About: WE ARE, which stands for Working to Extend Anti-Racist Education, is a non-profit organization that provides anti-racism training for children, families, and educators. We use a three-pronged approach to dismantle systemic racism in education and beyond by offering summer camps for children in rising 1st-5th grade, professional development for educators, and workshops for parents & families.

Location: Durham, North Carolina

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Photography/Videography

Owner: Barbarah Perttula

About:

What it’s really about…
It’s about you. Your engagement. Your wedding day. And all the imperfect, in-between moments.

It’s not about perfection.

It’s not a photography production.

It’s about documenting moments that tell your perfect story.

It really is the art of storytelling.

Location: Washington, D.C.

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Owner: Breana Powel

About: Portrait and commercial photographer capturing stories through vibrant imagery.

Location: Los Angeles, California

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Owner: Jenny Ng

About:

Eternal Love Crafts & Photography
Sub-divisions:
-Eternal Love Crafts & Cakes
-Jenny Ng Photography
-Wedding Officiant Services – Ordained Minister Jenny
-U.S. Distributor of Wedding Creations Products
-Eternal Love Supplies & More

Special Occasion Photographer
Ordained Minister
Crafts Extraordinaire
Cake & Dessert Decorator
U.S. Distributor of Wedding Creations/LanShowCase products

Eternal Love Crafts & Photography founded in May of 2005 by Jenny P. Ng is the main company that oversees the sub-divisions of Eternal Love Crafts & Cakes, which specializes in Special occasion (Weddings, Baby Showers, Birthdays) crafts and Cakes/Desserts; and Jenny Ng photography which specializes in unique photography.

Jenny Ng is a New York based professional photographer & ordained Minister offering wedding officiant services as well as NYC Hall Wedding photography, Bridal, Engagement, Couple’s photography, Portraits, family photography & Baby photography photo sessions at an afforable price.

In 2018, Eternal Love Crafts & Photography, AKA EternalLoveCP started a collaboration with Wedding Creations/LanShowCase to become their sole U.S. Distributor of their fantastic line of event decor/decoration supplies and accessories… see our instagram and Youtube channel for all photos of our product lines.

Location: Brooklyn, New York

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Owner: Dominique Lewis-Kondajutur

About: Capturing life’s important events and special moments is our passion. Through the lens we take authentic and creative photos that last a lifetime. Available for event, family, engagement, and lifestyle photography service.

Location: Sacramento, California

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Owner: Bryauna Kralik

About: We are a full-service videography duo that specializes in filming weddings and events! Our mission is to capture special moments for our client to cherish forever. This business was inspired by our love for creating YouTube videos together!

Location: Hampton, Virginia

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Owner: Stephanie Villeda-Schaedler

About: Curating honest, affordable and timeless photography for growing families and couples who believe in their love.

Location: Meridian, Connecticut

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Primary Care Services

Owner: Dr. Amari Kimble

About: Chiropractic Services

Location: Memphis, Tennessee

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Owner: Elssy Lopez

About: Feel at Home with Your Smile

Location: Jacksonville, Florida

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Owner: Veronica Holland-Barner

About: Offering homebound patients access to primary care in their homes. Also offering primary care to adults and the LGBQT+ community.

Location: Owings Mills, Maryland

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Professional Services

Owner: Precious Williams

About: Besides helping women entrepreneurs and business leaders, I also conduct corporate trainings, helping teams to create killer communication skills, craft messaging and understand how to pitch and build sales programs. I’m also a world-class speaker for global brands including: Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, George Washington University, Intuit Quickbooks, NBC Universal, PwC and more. Never one to forget my roots, I give back by working with organizations like Bottomless Closet, the Bowery Women’s Mission and Dress for Success.

Ain’t Nothing But Some Accolades
I’m featured in a Mastercard “Priceless” commercial, am a 4-time Book of the Year Finalist, a Stevie Awards “Maverick of the Year” Silver Medalist, a 2021 Leadership in Action Awardee for Career Mastered and an ICABA 2021 Women of Impact Awardee.

As if that wasn’t enough, I’m also a 3-time #1 bestselling author for my books, Bad Bitches and Power Pitches: For Women Entrepreneurs and Speakers Only, and The Bad Bitches and Power Pitches Workbook, with my third, Pitching for Profit: The Bad Bitches’ Playbook to Convert Conversations into Currency, available now!

I’ve also appeared in Forbes Magazine, CNN, Wall Street Journal, and on a billboard in Times Square (pinch me!). But I’m truly nothing without the amazing women and businesses I help. Ya’ll inspire me on the daily.

The Tea on Precious
As a proud black woman, I graduated from Spelman College with a degree in English and then earned my JD from Rutgers Law School. I even practiced law for a hot second.

Location: Brooklyn, New York

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Owner: Serena Johnson

About: Provide effective communication between people who know sign language and those who don’t

Location: Fresno, California

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Owner: Antonietta Kelley

About: The Write Consulting Group serves entities and individuals seeking to secure funding to support their business development, programming, and/or educational goals. Our clients include non-profit organizations, for-profit corporations, government consultants, and prospective/existing undergraduate and graduate school students.

Location: Washington, D.C.

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Real Estate

Owner: Kyndra Outlaw

About: Atmospheric Home Staging visually prepares homes for the Dallas/ Ft. Worth Texas real estate market. We specialize in vacant home staging and our services help homes appeal to the highest number of potential buyers resulting in homes selling faster and for more money.

Location: Dallas, Texas

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Owner: Caila Llanas

About: Deliver the dream of home ownership everywhere!

Location: San Antonio, Texas

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Owner: Emilio Alonso

About: To provide real estate title, escrow and settlement services in DC, MD and VA.

Location: Silver Spring, Maryland

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Owner: Peggy Ekong(Agent)

About: Peggy Ekong has the knowledge, experience and discretion needed to give you the advantage you deserve when navigating the process of buying, selling, or renting a home.

Location: New York, New York

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Owner: Ankur Singal

About: Commercial Real Estate

Location: Wheaton, Illinois

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Owner: Giselle Feiger

About: Buy and sell with The Stapleton Feiger Group at Hodge & Kittrell Sotheby’s International Realty in Chapel Hill, North Carolina! Whether you are buying or selling real estate, we will ensure you have a stress-free and positive experience from initial market research through contract and closing. For buyers, we will provide market knowledge, negotiating expertise, and total access to real estate inventory to secure the ideal property for you and the best deal possible. For sellers, we will tailor a plan to strategically position your unique property in the marketplace in order to receive competitive offers and ultimately sell in a seamless transaction. When you hire us, you get two professional advisors who will attend to your real estate needs with the highest standard of care. Not only that — along with us, you get access to the network and marketing power of Hodge & Kittrell Sotheby’s International Realty. We look forward to working with you!

Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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Retail

Owner: Bryauna Kralik

About: All natural body butters made with love. My products are known for helping eczema, appearance of stretch marks, and also smelling great!

Location: Hampton, Virginia

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Owner: J Ivan Hernandez

About: We help create culture, inspire people, and grow organizations through signage. We do wall graphics, window graphics, dimensional signs across Colorado and nationwide.

Location: Lakewood, Colorado

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Owner: Dante’ Johnson

About: Concrete Blossoms Garden is a streetwear brand driven to be fertile soil for the rarely celebrated, often judged, and proudly imperfect flowers whose will to reach the sun remains unbroken.

Location: Brooklyn, New York

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Owner: Bao-Tram Do

About: Emerald City Flowers (ECF) is a floral design studio in the Greater Seattle Area that provides artful and modern floral services. The act of giving flowers spans the human experience from moments of joy to moments of sadness. Regardless of the occasion, flowers bring beauty into an environment and are admired by many. We are a community-minded business that serves diverse communities, believing that our communities deserve beautiful and nice things.

Location: Seattle, Washington

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Owner: Vernicca Wynter

About: We specialize in selling, marketing, producing, and installing visual communications. We provide comprehensive sign and graphic to help businesses and organizations communicate to clients- including manufacturers, schools and universities, store fronts and retailers, construction and real estate industries, healthcare facilities, and many other industries – extend their brand’s reach and communicate messages to their audiences.
The company provides signage to build brand awareness, increase location visibility, and promote products/services, such as signs, graphics, banners, flags, vehicle wraps, dimensional letters, window graphics, exhibits, and more. We work internationally for anyone interested in our products/services and can ship anywhere!

Location: Tamarac, Florida

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Owner: Cicili Brown

About: To break cycles of poverty of previously incarcerated women. We seek to break these cycles through sales of herbs, teas, and essential oils.

Location: Los Angeles, California

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Owner: Kingsley Barreto

About: Kids Play Gallery is an indoor imaginative play space that children will love. We offer a fun, friendly, clean, and safe environment with custom play homes for creative exploration. Our friendly staff is always happy to welcome families – whether they are visiting for daily play or whether they are hosting a birthday party or group event. Bring your family today and check out our one-of-a-kind play center. We look forward to seeing you.

Location: Gaithersburg, Maryland

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Owner: Erica Fernandez Zamora

About: Latinxs Cultura Viva, social enterprise, e-commerce, promotes and sells authentic handmade clothing and accessories and through fair-trade, local creation of job opportunities, and cultural awareness to support 20 Mexican artisan families.

Location: Exeter, California

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Owner: Jacob Reed

About: Lee Reed Embroidery is dedicated to serving as a Black-owned and USA operated custom and personalized apparel decoration company. We specialize in embroidery, HTV, sublimation, and screen printing services for high fashion, retail, and small business clients.

Location: Hammond, Indiana

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Owner: Mavil Gonzalez

About: The moment you step on board a Luxury Charter Yacht, your world is opened to the ultimate in luxury, privacy and freedom. Live for Today and experience Your Ultimate Yacht Charter Fantasy!

Location: Miami, Florida

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Owner: Maka Moonture

About: Moonture seeks to design at the intersection of cultural intention and coherent emotion. Drawing from their Lingít/Kanien’kehá:ka and Māori heritage, Maka and Aorere center the soul of their work in intention, energy, and Mana. Our mission is a reality where existing as a Tangata Whenua/Indigenous person is to thrive.

Location: Anchorage, Alaska

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Owner: Saul & Erik Lopez

About: We are two brothers, Saul and Erik, who are on a mission to build stronger relationships between pets and their parents. Together we use our advanced engineering degrees and experience fostering dozens of dogs to invent products that are meant to be enjoyed by pets and humans alike.

Dogs inspire us to make every moment a little brighter. We founded Milunova to develop amazing products that will help us share that inspiration with others.

Location: Houston, TX

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Owner: Courtney Johnson

About: NotUrAverage Candles is a Black-owned and operated candle company located in Greenbelt, MD. Our mission is to highlight the wonders of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through fragrance. We aim to not only provide phenomenal candles with dynamic fragrances but expose our customers to various STEM fields and phenomena.

Location: Greenbelt, Maryland

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Owner: Chasmon Tarimel

About: Pasifika/Palauan art designs in clothing apparel and other merchandise. We seek to share products in the forms of clothing, stickers, prints, backpacks and more to showcase Palauan & Pasifika culture. Know that any product purchased is rooted in culture, tradition, & handled with care.

Location: Seattle, Washington

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Owner: Rene Garza

About: Although originally focused on creating a core line of collegiate licensed wall decor, we have recently broadened our scope of products to magnets, picture frames, and stationary, allowing fans to now “Keep Tradition” in many different ways. Additionally, we’ve expanded our reach outside of the collegiate spectrum to include tourism, monogram, Boy Scouts, faith, and soon many more followings with their own set of unique traditions to keep! Regardless of the category, we pride ourselves in our devotion to creating some of the most unique and memorable designs in the industry; so much so, we continue to receive a steady flow of attention, from a variety of outside companies, seeking to utilize our artwork for their own products.

Location: Fulshear, Texas

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Owner: Carlos Sanchez- Huizar

About: Piilas is a brand committed to co-building partnerships and community. 🤜🏽🤛🏾

Location: Portland, Oregon

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Owner: Jakita Walter

About: Sensual Relaxation’s mission is to heighten the consumer’s senses through their love of candles. The perfect scent can set the mood for setting and allows you to relax your mind.

Location: Chicago, Illinois

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Owner: Barbarah Perttula

About: Curating style conscious minimalist baby goods for their greater good.

Location: Maryland

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Owner: Barbarah Perttula

About: My business is an online and physical storefront that supports womxn from menstruation through menopause by providing them with products and services to support their vaginal care, hygiene, and intimacy needs. Our mission is to elevate womxn socially and economically by prioritizing their vaginal wellness every step of the way as we work to address common consumer pain points.

Location: New York, New York

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Owner: Tatiana Parker

About: Watch4TheHook is about knowing life comes at you fast. We all have dealt with unforeseen circumstances, but we have to stay ready at all times. The combination of text and graphics that are placed on the apparel show various ways in which you may need to…

“Watch For The Hook”.

Location: Little Rock, Arkansas

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Technology

Owner: Haroon Choudery

About: We teach people (especially those in underserved communities) about the fundamentals of artificial intelligence and how they can prepare for the future. Since our inception in 2018, we’ve taught over 70,000 people online and 2,000 students in-person. We’ve also partnered with reputable organizations like Mark Cuban Foundation and Black Girls Code.

Location: New York, New York

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Owner: Ibraheem Alinur

About: Preventing the spread of disease, globally.

Location: Dallas, Texas

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Owner: Roshawnna Novellus

About: EnrichHER is a financial technology platform that matches revenue-generating companies led by women and founders of color to individual and institutional sources of funding. Since 2017, EnrichHER has deployed upwards of $4 million through its platform and matched business-owners to $13 million in working capital through its Accelerator. By providing capital, coaching, and connections, we are fueling the fastest-growing demographic of business owners. Our network has engaged with over 98,000 advocates through its digital community and in-person activations.

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

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Owner: Johnathon Muruako

About: Fitalyst is developing an immersive campus engagement platform that provides equitable access of campus resources & services to first-generation and/or low-income college students. We hope to provide students with the what, when, and how to successfully engage with the campus resources their institutions already support.

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Owner: Kanique Mighty-Nugent

About: We focus on bringing to life the needs of our clients through visually composed elements. We do this through two main components: online web presence and live video strategy. Our aim is to provide a full range of services to cater to individuals or small businesses based on their unique specifications.

Location: Huntsville, Alabama

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Owner: DuMarkus Davis

About: Musicbuk is a virtual music ecosystem that gives aspiring musicians access to a platform that carries them through their entire musical journey from learning music, to performing and monetizing their craft.

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

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Owner: Jenny Mazanec

About: Imagine a SUPER APP designed with the family unit in mind, that facilitates the flow of information between individuals, doctors, and scientists to help us stay healthy, or expedite care when needed.

MYMEDIFAM organizes every facet of health for you, in the most wholesome way. We help keep track of your health records, doctors’ appointments, fitness routines, medicines, and much more. Get answers to your health concerns at any time! Need a second opinion? MYMEDIFAM is here for you. Keep everyone around you healthy and happy too, directly through your smartphone, at your convenience.

Location: Skilman, New Jersey

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Owner: Cristina Leos

About: MyHealthEd, Inc. is a technology based nonprofit using human-centered design to support the health and wellbeing of youth of every identity. Our flagship program, Real Talk, is a mobile app for teens 13-17 years old that provides youth with authentic stories and trusted resources to support their health. Our mission is to dismantle the barriers to accessing mental and emotional support for youth.

Location: Carrboro, North Carolina

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Owner: Jada Allender

About: Providing a solution to college athletic departments navigating their new responsibilities in the name, image and likeness (NIL) landscape.

Location: Phoenix, Arizona

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Owner: Juan Estrada

About: To provide excellent near-shore digital project and program management services.

Location: Brooklyn, New York

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Owner: Frank Romo

About: RomoGIS uses GIS, community based research, and innovation to create solutions that advance social equity. We train organizations to confidently harness maps, data and technology to better advocate and enact change in their communities. We aim to inspire the next generation of leaders to think critically, be curious, and challenge the status quo by developing solutions that improve our client’s ability to make a positive impact in the urban environment.

Location: Detroit, Michigan

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Owner: Marcus Howard

About: ROSA is a web-based platform that supports students’ mental health during school. Students have conversations guided by our Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform and are provided with therapy exercises, scientifically proven to reduce negative emotions.

Location: St. Louis, Missouri

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Owner: Jose Alvarado

About: We convert your idea into a real business!

Location: San Francisco, California

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Owner: Shay Gist

About: We build, enhance, and deliver quality web solutions, so you can work smarter, not harder.

Location: Chantilly, Virginia

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Owner: Xavier Gonzalez

About: The Molecular Pearl Group (MPG) created the first patented integrated spherification device that converts liquids into shelf-stable gel spheres (pearls) for use in myriad applications.

Location: Miami, Florida

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Owner: Adebisi Adebowale

About: Upliftology™ is an edtech and consulting company that helps first-generation Black students transition from debt and doubt to scholarship and success in education, career, and business. Through our courses, workshops, and events, we prepare students for the college application process to graduate school debt-free and build the lives of their dreams into reality through internships and career opportunities. To date, Upliftology™ Scholars have earned over $6.25 Million in scholarships for their educational pursuits, and boast of attending schools such as Columbia University, Howard University, and University of California – Berkeley, among others. Upliftology™ Scholars have continued onto work at companies including NASA, Accenture, and Deloitte. We are connecting students together with employers to provide a more robust and fulfilling education that will lead to a more engaged and satisfying career and livelihood. We are now in process to develop our mobile app – Schoold™ to further streamline our business.

Location: Lanham, Maryland

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Owner: Tristan Ford

About: Vectech is developing applied optics and image recognition for automated generation of insect detection and monitoring data, for efficient control of mosquitoes, ticks, and other vector borne diseases.

Location: Baltimore, Maryland

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