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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 16: Derrick Johnson, President & CEO of NAACP, poses in the press room during the 55th NAACP Image Awards at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on March 16, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Robin L Marshall/Getty Images for BET)

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The NAACPannounced todayNAACP Capital , a $ 200 million store of funds to back fund managers focused on issues that touch on multitude of colour .

The store was conceived in partnership with Kapor Capital and Kapor Center , along with nine other speculation fund managers . Last year , Crunchbase detect that Black founder raised less than 1 % of all venture Washington funds and that the grouping has raised 0.3 % in the first one-half of this year .

A fund of funds is when an investor invests in multiple speculation funds , rather than make individual investments in funds , or even in startups . It ’s a democratic way for an influential investor to put their money to the broad possible usance . Kapor is a VC house that has always been concentre on racial justice investing . But other big names have used a like approach . Melinda Gates ’ Pivotal Ventures , for example , invests in adult female - led funds , as well as directly in startup .

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