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  "description": "Black founders captured 0.4% of U.S. venture capital in 2024 — while the market deployed a record $297 billion in Q1 2026 alone. The gap is not closing. It is compounding.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-19T12:48:37.000Z",
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  "textContent": "## The number is 0.4\n\nThat is the percentage of all U.S. venture capital deployed in 2024 that reached startups with a Black founder or co-founder.\n\nNot a rounding error.\n\nNot a bad quarter.\n\nA structural condition — documented, measured, and now three consecutive years in decline from a peak that itself was never sufficient.\n\nAt the 2021 high, fueled by post-George Floyd commitments from LPs, corporate venture arms, and institutional funds, Black founders captured 1.3% of U.S. venture dollars.\n\nThat figure — celebrated at the time as breakthrough progress — represented roughly $4.7 billion in a market that deployed $330 billion that year. The share was small.\n\nThe absolute number was real.\n\nBoth are now gone.\n\n### The collapse is measurable\n\nIn 2023, total funding to Black-founded startups fell to $705 million — the first year since 2016 the figure failed to reach $1 billion, and a 71% drop from 2022 that vastly outpaced the overall VC market's 37% contraction in the same period.\n\nIn 2024, the figure settled at approximately $730 million, holding at 0.4% share against an overall market that had partially recovered.\n\nThe proportional decline from 2021 to 2024 exceeds two-thirds of the peak allocation — and it happened while the rhetoric of inclusion was loudest.\n\n* * *\n\n## What Q1 2026 Makes Worse\n\nThe first quarter of 2026 produced a record-breaking number for the U.S. venture market. Total startup funding in Q1 2026 shattered all records, crossing $297 billion — the largest quarterly deployment in the history of American venture capital.\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "The VC Glass Ceiling Has a Number. It's 0.4%.",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-19T12:48:36.591Z"
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