Patient engagement platform Ostro scooped up $45 million, and Cloud Health Systems, a new startup from Instacart cofounder Apoorva Mehta, reportedly raised $30 million.
With the pandemic upending millions of lives, Esusu set up a rent relief fund last year, providing zero interest loans to help users who have lost jobs avoid eviction.
From the United States to Britain, Black and ethnic minorities have suffered disproportionately high rates of illness, death and income loss during the pandemic. Ashley Edwards, CEO of MindRight Health, in a photo taken in 2020. | Courtesy of Ashley Edwards
The Black Lives Matter protests, which swept the world last summer, have also heightened scrutiny of systemic racism.
Ashley Edwards is another young Black social entrepreneur using tech to address social justice.
Unable to get a bank loan when she moved from Nigeria to the United States, Abbey Wemimo's mother was forced to borrow money at a 400% interest rate and pawn her wedding ring to pay his college fees.
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