Fund Black Tech

Diversity has driven innovation across music, fashion, sports, and advertising — reshaping entire industries and redefining what is possible. Yet in the technology sector, that same diversity remains conspicuously absent.

Fund Black Tech asks a simple question: what happens when the most innovative minds in the room are never invited to the table?

Through intimate interviews with founders, investors, and industry leaders, the film traces the systemic barriers that have kept Black technologists and entrepreneurs on the margins of an industry worth trillions. From venture capital pipelines that consistently overlook Black-led startups to corporate cultures that reward conformity over creativity, the documentary reveals a pattern that is not just unfair — it is economically irrational.

But this is not a film about what is broken. It is a film about what is possible. The founders and visionaries featured in Fund Black Tech are not waiting for permission. They are building — and the documentary captures the energy, resilience, and brilliance of a movement that refuses to be sidelined.

The question is not whether Black founders can build transformative technology. They already are. The question is whether the rest of the industry is ready to fund it.

Black founders receive less than 1% of venture capital funding in the United States. That number has not meaningfully changed in over a decade.

This is not a diversity problem. It is an innovation problem. When an entire demographic is systematically excluded from the capital and networks required to build technology companies, the products that reach the market reflect only a fraction of the population they are supposed to serve.

The result is artificial intelligence trained on biased data, healthcare platforms that overlook entire communities, and financial technology that replicates the very inequities it claims to solve.

Fund Black Tech puts the human faces on these statistics — the founders who bootstrapped their way to traction without a single warm introduction to a VC, the investors rethinking how deal flow works, and the corporate leaders asking why their pipelines look the way they do.

C&I Reach produces films that do more than document. They move people to act. This documentary is designed to shift the conversation from awareness to accountability.