Is AI the Key to Diversifying and Democratizing Seed Investing with Lauren Washington S7 Ep. 7
Lauren Washignton is the co-founder and CEO of Fundr, a platform that uses data and AI to empower decision-making in seed investing. Prior to this, Lauren co-founded Black Women Talk Tech, the largest membership organization and only conference for black women founders, and KeepUp, an automated social listening platform. Her companies have won multiple awards including 43North, the Advanced Imaging Society’s Distinguished Leadership Award, and the Austin Inno Fire Award. She has been featured in The New York Times, TechCrunch, Elle, Inc, and Fortune and listed as a top entrepreneur in Essence Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, CIO Magazine, the ForbesNEXT1000 list, and Austin Black Business Journal’s 40 Under 40.
In this episode we discuss:
- How Fundr is using AI to eliminate bias, increase access, decrease the time to funding and help even the playing field of investor-to-founder relationships; and
- How she plans to use the data generated from Fundr to help inform change and hopefully bring more equity to the funding ecosystem.
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Learn more about Fundr: https://www.fundr.ai/
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