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The HBCU Founders Initiative Selects 5 Additional Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to Its Pre-Accelerator Program Designed to Scale Entrepreneurial Education

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Thursday, June 29, 2023
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Over 750 students and alumni from 80+ HBCUs have benefitted from HBCUFI's programming with participants raising over $2M for their startups.

Key Points: 
  • Over 750 students and alumni from 80+ HBCUs have benefitted from HBCUFI's programming with participants raising over $2M for their startups.
  • This brings HBCUFI's total number of HBCU campus-based cohorts to 12 institutions, with a growing waitlist of schools ready to partner.
  • Prior to launching its inaugural cohort of 7 partner HBCUs in 2022, HBCUFI worked with HBCU students and alumni interested in entrepreneurship through its virtual programming offerings.
  • Applications for the Fall 2023 Pre-Accelerator program will open on July 1st and will close on August 6th.