The founder of Black Girl Ventures wants to help black and brown women founders find alternative access to capital.

In 2016, she launched Black Girl Ventures (BGV) with the aim of creating “a solution to wealth disparity and lack of access to capital.”Earlier this year, Bell was on the verge of launching new chapters in 25 cities and then, “Boom.

“It was clear that black and brown women were not receiving access to VC funding,” Bell told Crunchbase News.

It wasn’t the first case of police brutality Bell had seen since she founded Black Girl Ventures.

“I’m happy to see support going to grassroots organizations such as ours rather than just to a few organizations like the NAACP,” Bell told Crunchbase News. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1591980307.2332182/Dynamic-And-Determined:-Meet-Black-Girl-Ventures-Founder-Shelly-Bell?ref=audio_experience