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Angela Benton was born on 22 May, 1981 in Chicago, Illinois, United States, is an American businesswoman (born 1981). Discover Angela Benton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 42 years old?
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Angela Benton Height, Weight & Measurements
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Angela Benton Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Angela Benton worth at the age of 42 years old? Angela Benton’s income source is mostly from being a successful Entrepreneur. He is from United States. We have estimated Angela Benton's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Timeline
Angela Benton (born May 22, 1981) is an American businesswoman.
Benton launched Black Web 2.0 in August 2007.
It is said that the site was launched out of her frustration to find information on what Blacks were doing in technology both from an entrepreneurial/startup and corporate perspective.
The site quickly gain community amongst Black digerati and early
adopters, giving them a place to be heard and featured.
Markus Robinson, a partner in the site and its COO until 2010, was a key figure in growing the platform.
In the early days of Black Web 2.0 Benton served as the editor and main writer for the site, along with Robinson, and used the platform to feature and discuss key topics in Black Culture, technology, and where the two intersected.
The duo often critiqued products and the digital strategies of African-American media businesses and forecasted trends in the arena, as such they quickly became the leading experts in the space.
Benton founded NewME (acquired), the first startup accelerator for minorities globally in 2011.
She is a pioneer of diversity and one of the most important African-Americans in the technology industry.
She has helped minority-led tech companies raise over $47 million in venture capital funding.
Benton has received numerous accolades for her work, including recognition as one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs, Fast Company's Most Influential Women In Technology, and Business Insiders’ 25 Most Influential African-Americans in Technology.
In June 2011 Benton launched the first NewME accelerator cohort in Silicon Valley.
Key figures that participated in the program as mentors, speakers, or supporters included some of the technology industry's elite; Mitch Kapor, Ben Horowitz, Vivek Wadhwa, Google, Twitter, Andreessen Horowitz, Facebook et al. The program was largely responsible for being a catalyst for elevating the conversation around diversity in the technology industry for both ethnic minorities and women.
Some alumni of NewME went on to become venture capitalist themselves at Kapor Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and TEDco.
Under her leadership the company helped hundreds of minority companies raise over $47 million in venture capital funding.
Benton has been featured in numerous national and international media outlets including CNN's award-winning documentary series by Soledad O'Brien Black in America: The New Promised Land: Silicon Valley , MSNBC, Bloomberg Television, Inc, Forbes, Good Morning America , and the Wall Street Journal where she was a featured essayist for the paper's 125th Anniversary edition on "The Future of Entrepreneurship".
She authored REVIVAL in 2017 after her cancer diagnosis.
Benton traveled to Malawi in 2017 to support local villages with solar powered electricity through a micro fund and partnership established with Kuyere!, a project dedicated to providing solar electricity to the poorest rural households in Africa.
Her investment powered 10 villages in Malawi.
She produced a documentary series titled, Venture, on her time there.
Benton sold NewME in December 2018.
The NewME Accelerator's inaugural class was featured on CNN's fourth installment of Black in America reported by award-winning journalist Soledad O'Brien.
Benton was featured as one of the primary subjects in the documentary.
The documentary, whose focus was on chronicling the stories of 8 NewME Accelerator participants that traveled to Silicon Valley to work on their startups, catapulted the NewME Accelerator to a national stage and sparked a heated industry debate on the lack of minorities in technology.
At the height of the debate tech maven Michael Arrington, known for off color comments, became a target for out lash on the topic.
Benton founded Streamlytics, a next generation data ecosystem that provides ethical, human powered data, in 2018 to democratize data collection.
The company is the market leader for an emerging data category, coined community driven data, which places data ownership into the hands of the consumers that create it.
Streamlytics has a specific focus on providing data that better reflects the usage of people of color and providing financial compensation for users that opt to share their data.
The company’s investors include Issa Rae and The Savannah College of Art and Design.
Angela Benton is a breast cancer survivor and advocate for health and wellness as it relates to entrepreneurship.