Indie Creator Fund
1.2% of Black entrepreneurs receive startup capital.
Creative entrepreneurs who identify as Black or Latinx, make 67% less than their white counterparts.
By 2053, Black wealth will be at 0.
Hopefully those numbers make you uncomfortable. It’s time for change.
With our effort Indie Creator Fund, we want to help Black entrepreneurs a start, scale, and sustain their businesses by covering the expenses that cripple us the most. By covering the cost of corporate filing, general liability insurance, equipment, rent for a brick and mortar, facilitating employment contracts with our brand partners, and more, we’ll get more entrepreneurs across creative and tech industries operating and keep us there.
And we’ll do that with our efforts of raising and reinvesting 3 million dollars into underserved creatives by the end of 2023.
Indie Creator Fund is an equity-free grant program. There’s no repayment plan. No hidden terms. No sales revenue requirement. That means freelance designers who dream of opening a creative studio to serve brands have the same opportunity at funding as the owner of a health tech app. We commit to giving away 100% of profits from our fundraising efforts to businesses in need.
Update: Indie Creator Fund has paused operations as of January 2025. After raising and redistributing 1.9 MM into entrepreneurs, we recognized that we need to deploy more than capital, and are developing technology and experiences that make it easier for entrepreneurs to execute in a sustainable way. We’ll be back, as soon as we’re done building for you. Stay tuned for updates by subscribing to our mailing list below.