Angela Benton

Angela Benton born May 22, 1981) is an American businesswoman. 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 Quotes I think making a conscious effort to look at the problems those entrepreneurs are solving and generally just getting out of the "bubble," which means people may not look like a young white guy coding or running a startup. It might look like a mom of 3 who is changing careers On the platforms that we launched we were just trying to talk about the issues and shine a light on people doing great work who weren't getting much exposure at the time,” “I learned a lot of life lessons, but most importantly, I learned a lot of business lessons from that process. I’m proud of the path we paved, but in 2018, looking at the landscape of activity around black tech the work seemed duplicative,” External links Category:Living people Category:entrepreneurs Category:Businesswomen from the United States