Contee faced VC discrimination despite running another multi-million dollar agency
Cheryl Contee · How I Built Resilience: Cheryl Contee of Do Big Things · Oct 29, 2020 · at 3:38
Cheryl Contee, founder of Do Big Things and co-founder of Attentive.ly, recounts the systemic barriers and bias she faced raising capital as a Black female founder.
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“As an all female team with a black female co-founder, it wasn't easy. To get funding. We had to work really hard, and I experienced, you know, some real discrimination despite, you know, running at the same time, you know, another digital agency that had pulled in millions of dollars in revenue.”
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