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Google recently revealed the 20 recipients of its 2024 Google for Startups Founders Funds for Black and Latino entrepreneurs. This year, the focus is entirely on AI-centric startups, emphasizing Google’s dedication to promoting diversity in AI and aiding underrepresented founders in securing necessary funding.

Google selects 20 artificial intelligence (AI)-focused startups and their founding teams to join the 2024 Black and Latino Founders Fund.

Drexel is partnering with EdVisorly, a platform that uses artificial intelligence to streamline the transfer process.

There’s no shortage of innovation by Black leaders in the evolving tech industry. Every day, Black programmers, coders and engineers are making strides in technology to benefit their communities and revolutionize the digital landscape forever.

The university partnered with EdVisorly, a mobile-friendly app that helps connect transfer students with Sonoma State and provides easy to access information on ADT and requirements for transfer.

If you build it, will it work? And how will you measure it? Those are vital questions for education technology innovators as they build ventures, secure funding and expand their impact. In a crowded marketplace with fierce competition for scarce dollars, savvy entrepreneurs embrace research to inspire, hone and scale their businesses.

The 2024 Google for Startups cohort includes Manny Smith, the founder of EdVisorly, a platform to help college students apply to public and private universities through its mobile app.

Google has announced the 20 recipients of the company’s Google for Startups Founders Funds, including its fifth Black Founders Fund and third Latino Founders Fund. According to a press, released for the first time since the funds’ inception, all of the fund’s recipients are AI-powered or AI-augmented companies.

Manny Smith, Founder and CEO of EdVisorly shares his experiences in higher education, his personal journey and he highlights the work happening at EdVisorly, and online platform for helping students transfer and succeed.

We dig into that and the following topics: ✓ why transfer rates from community colleges to four-year programs are so low (only 18% 😱) ✓ how EdVisorly is helping students improve the university transfer process and the potential 10 billion-dollar impact of doing so ✓ balancing company culture and competitiveness within a startup

We now add an Impact Investee Partner as a Board member for the first time – Manny Smith is the Founder and CEO of EdVisorly, an edtech company which received an investment from SV2 this past year. We are delighted to welcome Bill, Aarti, Elaine, and Manny to the SV2 Board.

Meet The Black And Latine-Led AI Startups Joining Google’s Founders Fund 2024. As AI developments are on the rise, this year, Google has funded 20 US-based companies that are pushing the boundaries in AI.