• Venture capital funding goes mostly to Caucasian entrepreneurs
‣ 87% Caucasian founders, 12% Asian founders, 1% African American founders
• Women-led startups have received only 7% of all VC funding
• A dismal 0.2% of African American female entrepreneurs are funded
‣ Average funding $36,000 (compared with $1.3 million for Caucasian males)
• Only 7% of partners at the top 100 venture capital firms are women
‣ 78% of VC partners are Caucasian males
The Stats
Sources: CB Insights, MIT, Project Diane, Crunchbase

To engage women and minorities in Little
Rock and increase access to entrepreneurial
information, resources and training.
Start Here Little Rock Mission

Entrepreneur
Support Organizations
Community & Professional
Organizations

The Start Here Team
Steve
Rice
Nathaniel
Thomas III
Katie
Milligan
Tionna
Jenkins
Erica
Swallow
FOUNDER STEERING COMMITTEE

Start Here Little Rock
is a pilot program in conjunction with the
Clinton School of Public Service

To measurably increase connectivity with
and engagement between community entrepreneur support
organizations and women and minorities
To serve as a case study that can be mirrored and customized
to make a measurable impact in communities everywhere
To provide entrepreneurial trends that will transfer to additional
sectors like education, business, and nonprofits
Start Here Little Rock Goals

Saturday, August 27
10 am - 2 pm
Clinton School of Public Service
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