News Archive - Kapor Center

October 23, 2025

Humanity AI Commits $500M to Build a People-Centered Future for AI

October 23, 2025

CCST and Omidyar Network, with support from Kapor Foundation, Launch Legislative Academy on AI to Support California Policymakers in Rapidly Advancing AI Environment

October 23, 2025

10 Funders, $500 Million Targeting AI and Humanity

October 23, 2025

Foundations want to curb AI developers’ influence with $500 million aimed at centering human needs

September 15, 2025

This Venture Capitalist Is Minting Unicorns Using A Values-Based Investing Strategy

September 15, 2025

Data Center Boom Risks Health of Already Vulnerable Communities

September 15, 2025

Location of state’s data centers linked to polluted areas

September 15, 2025

Freada Kapor Klein featured in Forbes 50 Over 50

March 14, 2025

Americans’ retirement investments are at the mercy of the culture wars

March 14, 2025

Google and Meta used to champion DEI efforts. Why Big Tech is pulling back

December 17, 2024

Americans’ retirement investments are at the mercy of the culture wars

December 17, 2024

NAACP launches $200 million fund of funds

December 17, 2024

SPILL Brings New Investors Into Its Inclusive Social Media Conversation

December 17, 2024

Funders commit $25 million to support equitable AI advancement

December 10, 2024

SMASH Hosts National Open Innovation Challenges

December 10, 2024

Students wrap a summer prepping for tech careers at Michigan Central

December 10, 2024

Inspiring Atlanta’s Future Tech Leaders at Youth Tech Innovation Hackathon

December 10, 2024

Kapor Capital Managing Partner Makes AfroTech Future 50

December 10, 2024

Kapor Capital selected for ImpactAssets 50 2024

December 10, 2024

Kapor Capital names climate-tech vet as third investing partner

December 10, 2024

Kapor Foundation Announces New Fellows Focused on Tech Equity Across Education and Workforce

March 6, 2024

Latinos Still Only Account for 1 in 10 Tech Workers

March 6, 2024

Study Finds Latinos in Tech Few and Underrepresented Across All Industry Areas

March 5, 2024

Fixing Latino Shortage in Tech Needs Holistic Approach: Study

December 12, 2023

#SMASHmatch Campaign

December 12, 2023

A Reimagined SMASH to Drive Tomorrow’s Tech Future

December 12, 2023

Kapor Capital Selected for IA50 2023

December 12, 2023

Kapor Capital Makes AfroTech Future 50 List of Dynamic Investors

December 5, 2023

Biden-Harris Administration Announces $277 Million In Education Innovation and Research Grants to Help Address Academic Recovery

November 1, 2023

Vice President Harris Announces New U.S. Initiatives to Advance the Safe and Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence

October 20, 2023

1% of Venture Capital Goes To Black Founders. California’s New Bill Hopes To Shame VCs Into Change

October 19, 2023

Op-Ed: How Tech Can Move Beyond Empty Promises To Truly Advance DEI

October 19, 2023

Indigenous Students Underrepresented in Computer Science

October 19, 2023

A New Detroit Program Is Preparing Black Children For Lucrative Computer Science Careers

January 30, 2023

Three months ago, he was laid off from Twitter. Now, his competing app Spill is funded.

December 7, 2022

A Tech Winner Seeks Policy Change to Advance Racial Justice in the IndustryPage titled here

December 5, 2022

Kapor Foundation Launches Initiative to Make Trillion-Dollar Tech Industry More Equitable

November 15, 2022

Equitable Apprenticeship Toolkit

November 3, 2022

Kapor Foundation launches initiative to boost diversity in tech sector

November 1, 2022

Equitable Technology Policy Initiative

October 25, 2022

Elon Musk Wants To Cut Three Out Of Four Twitter Workers—How Will This Affect Black Employees?

September 29, 2022

New SMASH Program, Career Catalyst, Partners With Elite Gaming Live To Support Equitable Career Pathways in STEM

September 7, 2022

Kapor Capital, under new leadership, closes its largest fund to date

September 6, 2022

Kapor Capital Raises $126 Million to Invest in Underrepresented

September 1, 2022

Kapor Capital Managing Partners raise largest Fund to Date

April 30, 2022

Black women on Jackson’s rise to the Supreme Court: Our fight for representation isn’t over

April 15, 2022

Why America’s Economy Needs More Apprenticeships

April 8, 2022

NAACP and Kapor Center Release Black Tech Ecosystem Report

April 1, 2022

Big tech doesn’t require four-year college degrees. Other companies should take the hint

March 31, 2022

Equity in STEM? Addressing the ‘Leaky’ Talent Pipeline

March 31, 2022

7 years, 1% increase: Black representation in tech barely improving

March 30, 2022

Report Finds Black Representation in Tech has Regressed

March 30, 2022

Private payroll data shows job market strength in the face of inflation

March 29, 2022

Education Director, Dr. Ivory A. Toldson, Calls for Black Inclusion in Tech in New Report

March 29, 2022

Report: Tech still failing Black communities

March 4, 2022

Spelman College Teams Up With SMASH to Promote Black Women in Technology

February 25, 2022

Spelman College Teams Up With SMASH To Increase The Number Of WOC In STEM

June 24, 2021

AISES and the Kapor Center Awarded $1.4m Grant from National Science Foundation

September 25, 2020

Kapor Foundation Gives $1 Million In Grant Funding To Social Justice Organizations

July 14, 2020

What a Black tech movement might look like

June 18, 2020

Tech companies just found out about Juneteenth, and this is what they’re doing

June 18, 2020

Nonprofits Set Aside Juneteenth as a Day to Reflect, Learn, Take Action

June 14, 2020

Six many years into diversity experiences, Massive Tech has created tiny development

June 11, 2020

She Was A Victims’ Advocate Long Before #MeToo How Alumna of the Year Freada Kapor Klein changed the conversation around sexual assault

April 29, 2020

New York And Eight Other States Launch COVID-19 Support Platform OnwardUS

April 22, 2020

Bay Area Nonprofit Aims to Help Put the Unemployed Back on Track

April 22, 2020

New jobs and emergency services website launched in California now expanding across U.S.

April 22, 2020

Meet Bitwise, the unique tech company behind California’s job-loss website

April 20, 2020

The Kapor Center and Bitwise Industries Launch OnwardUS.org

April 2, 2020

Kapor Center Joins Coalition Launching OnwardCA.org, California’s COVID-19 Support Platform

May 8, 2019

California moves to get more K-12 students into computer science classes

April 27, 2019

Meet Three Women Who Are Transforming Philanthropy Towards Collaboration

April 23, 2019

Why unicorns can raise $1 billion but can’t figure out diversity and inclusion

March 26, 2019

Tech is “flunking” the diversity test, says activist and venture capitalist Freada Kapor Klein

March 26, 2019

The Kapor Center Is Giving Away $1M To Help Diversify Tech

March 21, 2019

KAPOR CENTER LAUNCHES A $1M GRANT COMPETITION FOR TECH DIVERSITY

March 19, 2019

THE KAPOR CENTER LAUNCHES “TECH DONE RIGHT CHALLENGE” WITH A $1M GRANT COMPETITION

November 13, 2018

Meet the reader’s choice winner of our first Bay Area’s Coolest Offices contest

November 13, 2018

Addressing Silicon Valley’s “Leaky Tech Pipeline”

November 13, 2018

Freada Kapor Klein: Silicon Valley’s diversity activist

November 13, 2018

Tech industry is leaving behind women of color, report shows

November 13, 2018

STATISTICS ON WOMEN OF COLOR IN COMPUTING PROVIDE THE TECH INDUSTRY WITH KEY AREAS TO TARGET FOR TRANSFORMATION

November 13, 2018

Galvanized by national politics, Oakland gets out the vote

November 13, 2018

Latinx Tech Summit Wraps Up