Seeding Equity

Welcome back to Season 3 of the Access & Opportunity Podcast. This season we are exploring how influential investors from across various pools of capital are helping women- and multicultural-led businesses gain access to capital. In this episode, we speak with Charles Hudson, founder and Managing Partner at Precursor Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm that was built on that belief that all entrepreneurs, regardless of background, benefit from having an institutional investor to help them scale and grow their company from the very beginning.

Charles talks to us about how his experiences as an entrepreneur have shaped his perspective as an investor, why he focuses on pre-seed companies, and how the entire investing landscape needs to change to better incorporate women and people of color at every level.

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