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Angel investor Hannah Bronfman is ready to launch her own fund


Early Thursday morning, excited AfroTech attendees shuffled into a conference room to see one thing: Hannah Bronfman, a noted angel investor who has more

Early Thursday morning, excited AfroTech attendees shuffled into a conference room to see one thing: Hannah Bronfman, a noted angel investor who has more than 1 million followers on social media, in conversation with Blavity founder and CEO Morgan DeBaun. For the past few years, she had been raising special purpose vehicles (SPVs) to get in on larger check rounds, which is how she was able to back the now-unicorn Kindbody and the emergency contraceptive company Julie. She’s pondered for some time about launching her own fund, but said it wasn’t until she saw the backlash to P&G’s acquisition of the Black-owned hair brand Mielle, where consumers accused the Black founders of selling out to a white company, that Bronfamn was ready to take the next step.

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