Bobbie Racette on what’s next for Virtual Gurus
Boozhoo News River readers,
This week in Indigenous tech news, BetaKit interviewed Virtual Gurus founder Bobbie Racette about her plans for acquiring Series B funding and championing diversity in tech. Virtual Gurus closed $8.4M in Series A funding in 2022, when Raven Indigenous Capital’s Paul Lacerte spoke on the BetaKit podcast about the importance of making capital accessible to Indigenous entrepreneurs.
“As the saying goes, if you don’t count, then you don’t count,” says Neil Weare of the Right to Democracy advocacy group. Grist tapped Neil to ask about data collection equity issues in U.S territories. For communities of Indigenous Pacific Islanders in the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa, this leads to serious concerns as climate change disrupts everyday life. Read the full story at Grist online.
Animikii Recognized For Impact Measurement Animikii was recently featured by Social Innovation Canada for our work in impact measurement and onboarding the Common Approach to Impact Measurement.
In this article, Animikii Chief Impact and Communications Officer Ian Capstick shares how storytelling, relationship-building, and love factor into our impact-driven work.
We’re grateful to have our headquarters on traditional territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lkwungen, Songhees and Esquimalt) Peoples of the Coast Salish Nation.
Animikii Inc: theDock Centre for Social Impact 100-722 Cormorant St Victoria, BC V8W 1P8
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