Camelback Ventures

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Camelback Ventures aims to diversify social innovation by giving underrepresented, early-stage entrepreneurs access to the tools they need to be successful. Camelback was built with the notion that genius is equally distributed across communities, but access to funding and start-up mentoring is often limited in communities of color and with women. Camelback provides entrepreneurs with greater access to resources. Camelback Ventures awards its fellows with 1:1 coaching, capital (start-up funding, up to $40,000), and access to investors and networks (connections). Camelback fellows, most of whom identify as people of color and/or female, work in communities across the country. To date, Camelback fellows have built social organizations that have impacted the lives of tens of thousands of young people across the country. Camelback fellows have built STEM-based social mobile games, a charter school network in New Orleans, a mobile app to help recognize strong academic performance, and a platform to help universities track and develop at-risk scholarship students. Camelback fellows have collectively gone on to raise over $14 million in funding. For three years in a row, three or more Camelback fellows have been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30.