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**About 'This Is A Visionary'**

This Is A Visionary will showcase among the most innovative and diverse companies breaking new ground and raising capital. We are highlighting companies from the Visible Hands portfolio who are actively fundraising and have hit significant milestones within their respective businesses. Tune in on Thursday, October 6th to hear founders pitch their incredible companies and find out ways you can get involved.

**About Visible Hands**

[Visible Hands](http://visiblehands.vc/) is a venture capital firm with a 14-week, virtual-first accelerator on a mission to highlight and invest in the limitless potential of overlooked founders.  At the earliest stages of company-building, we provide meaningful funding (Up to $175K), personalized support, and social capital to help our founders build exceptional technology startups.

Yasmin Cruz Ferrine

This Is A Visionary

Corey Thomas

Chairman & CEO, Rapid7

Visible Hands

Visible Hands believes in putting overlooked founders first and is excited to highlight some of the most innovative and diverse alumni companies who are currently fundraising!

Our mobile app guides 90M low- and middle-wage households on paths to financial security. Our first product helps mothers secure their maximum tax credits ($5,500) and their piece of the $12B left unclaimed every year. To date, we have secured over $9.3M for 1,400 families (900% YoY growth) with an ARR of $200,000. We reach customers through healthcare partnerships wiht high trust and low CAC.  

Clare Herceg

Let's Get Set

Financial Solutions Lab 

We reimagine the way the world — and the cars that do the moving — moves for the better. In addition to giving cars a way to get from point A to point B, we're working to bring the future closer with car-driving-car technology and helping other cars order food, get gas, and directions affordably.

Nic Mahaney

Guber

Swella is standardizing and automating the hair braiding experience in our braid bars. We integrate technology to deliver a premium salon experience. Check out our most recent feature in Ayesha Curry's Sweet July [here](https://sweetjuly.com/editorial/swella-is-the-tech-backed-braid-bar-revolutionizing-the-salon-experience-for-women-of-color/). 

Brooke Hill

Zanbria Asante

Swella

Kimoyo Insights is disrupting the $2.2B research in Africa industry with a user testing platform that automates participant recruitment, scheduling & payments helping companies get feedback up to 55% faster. 

We've helped teams at global tech companies and African tech startups (like Microsoft & Chipper Cash) to validate product ideas or discover new customer segments across Africa.


Mariam Braimah

Lucas Turner-Owens

Coleman Martinis

Google Black Founders Fund Recipient

TechCabal 

Kimoyo Insights

Google 

Parfait, an AI technology company built to serve people of color and solve AI biases in tech, is the first direct-to-consumer wig customization platform that uses computer vision to accurately detect head measurements and skin tone to provide truly tailored hair wigs and extensions, utilizing just four pictures.

Marlyse Reeves

Ifueko Igbinedion

Riley Rodgers

Griffin Olesky

Parfait

Thimble teaches kids (ages 10+) engineering and programming through a subscription kit service and an online learning portal with easy-to-follow tutorials. Kits include hands-on projects that follow a guided curriculum aligned with NGSS and Common Core standards. Students learn to build robots, weather stations, alarm clocks, and other devices from start to finish. 

Oscar Pedroso

Odette Yang

Thimble.io

Beatmatch is the dating app helping music lovers find relationships by matching people with similar music tastes! Music is a part of your social identity. Everything from what you believe, to the way you dress, to how you feel is influenced by the type of music you listen to. So whether you're looking to find your soulmate or make a new friend, music is the common language we all speak.

Chudi Iregbulem

Changing the tune on dating apps: Tech vet wants to connect people through their taste in music

Could One of These Startups Become The New TikTok or SoundCloud?

Techstars Music names 10 startups for its 2022 cohort

Beatmatch

Techstars

Warner Music Group

Quality Control Music

Google For Startups

Rhymesayers Entertainment

Concord Music

Divercity.io helps tech companies measure and track the diversity breakdown of their workforce and applicant pipeline and helps them improve it by connecting them with qualified diverse talent. We are a Techstars backed DEI measurement platform that has up to 99% accuracy in predicting a company’s diversity makeup such as to point them in the right direction towards building a diverse workforce.

Chuka Ikokwu

Joanna Pyra

Gil Ferreira

Joseph Roberts

Divercity.io wins Impact Company of the Year by DotCom magazine

Divercity.io featured in San Francisco Business Times

HR Tech Outlook Magazine Top 10 HR-Tech Product of 2022

The Silicon Review Top 50 Most Innovative Companies to watch in 2022

Divercity.io

Elliott Robinson

Taylor McLemore

Kazuki Ohta

Pilar Johnson

Lyle Fong

Katapulte was founded in 2022 as a financing tool that gets and keeps CPG brands on the shelves of big-box retailers. Katapulte provides working capital loans and banking services to the underserved segmenst of small businesses namely women, POCs, start-ups and low-moderate income communities. 

Michelle Dalzon

Katapulte

Ed Jean-Louis

Natalia Oberti Noguera