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How to Incubate Venture Studio Ideas? Leigh-Ann A. Buchanan (Venture Studio) | Aīre Ventures (Miami, FL) | (Season 2: Episode 7)
Diverse Tech Founders Media
English - April 05, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBCareers Business Technology diverse tech founders black startups startup meetups tech startups nyc startups Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Leigh-Ann is a writer, strategist, and sought after advisor on strategies for building REDI (racially equitable, diverse and inclusive) tech and innovation ecosystems and organizational culture.
Fortune 500 Experience
She has supported innovation and technology leaders at Fortune 500 companies including Google, Facebook, Delta, P&G Ventures, AirBnB, HSBC and UBS.
Founder Experience
As a founder, she has launched ventures from concept to scale, raised seven figure philanthropic investments and designed partnerships and platforms to connect innovators, young leaders and communities with the capital and opportunities necessary to take their impact to the next level.
Venture Café Miami
Most notably, as the founding Executive Director of Venture Café Miami. She led the organization to exponential growth and impact to serve 55,000 innovators and establish 1000+ content partnerships with national and global organizations over a 5 year period.
Nyah Project
Leigh-Ann is also the founder of the Nyah Project, which bridges systemic opportunity gaps through transformative leadership fellowships abroad and tech enabled college access coaching for disadvantaged youth of colour. Under her leadership 100 % of Nyah Fellows attend college and over 90% win scholarships — accumulating over $10 million in scholarships since 2014.
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Take a peek to discover more about Leigh-Ann, Aīre Ventures and Nyah Project.
Questions Answered Inside:
1. Would childhood Leigh-Ann be friends with Leigh-Ann today?
2. What is a Venture Studio and how is Aīre Ventures different?
3. What are you most excited about in Miami's venture and startup ecosystem?
Connect with Leigh-Ann, Aīre Ventures and Nyah Project using the links below:
Aīre Ventures: https://www.aireventures.org/
Leigh-Ann: https://www.leighannbuchanan.com/about-2
Leigh-Ann's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leighannbuchanan/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/aire_ventures
Medium: https://leighannbuchanan.medium.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leighann.buchanan/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aireventures/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxbUbepbwTSOdZwGJadbfIQ
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