What We Do
- Identify outstanding underrepresented company founders with the potential to scale their businesses and earn outsized returns
- Teach lean startup best practices and provide best-in-class lean startup accelerator programs
- Invest in a unique curated pipeline of underrepresented founders through our Donor Advised Fund
The Bright Beacon Impact Fund
The Bright Beacon Impact Fund is donor advised fund (DAF) that provides underrepresented company founders with access to capital and training to help them build successful and sustainable businesses.
Profits generated by our Impact Fund are reinvested into the Impact Fund to support and invest in current and future generations of underrepresented company founders. We help bridge the gap in funding from pre-seed to series A financing.
The Bright Beacon Foundation identifies and recommends early stage equity and debt investments to the fund's sponsor. The sponsor will review our recommendations and make investments that support our mission and purpose.
Profits generated by our Impact Fund are reinvested into the Impact Fund to support and invest in current and future generations of underrepresented company founders. We help bridge the gap in funding from pre-seed to series A financing.
The Bright Beacon Foundation identifies and recommends early stage equity and debt investments to the fund's sponsor. The sponsor will review our recommendations and make investments that support our mission and purpose.
Donate to the Bright Beacon Foundation Impact Fund
If you believe in our mission, consider making a contribution to the Bright Beacon Foundation Impact Fund. Your donations are tax-deductible and significantly help underrepresented company founders grow their businesses into a successful companies..
The Bright Beacon Venture Studio & Accelerator Programs
We teach lean startup and design thinking best practices to launch startups and help
early-stage companies scale and accelerate growth.
early-stage companies scale and accelerate growth.
DiscoveryStartups in the pre-seed stage learn about and develop their product- solution fit and develop their minimum viable product (MVP). |
ValidationStartups in the seed stage develop their product-market fit and create their sales and marketing roadmap. |
Customer CreationStartups in the seed stage learn about sales execution and optimizing customer acquisition. |
Our Start-up Ecosystem
Our lean startup trainers and educators have advised early stage company founders and experienced executives to helped to accelerate company growth. They have trained STEM majors, engineers, and computer scientists (from undergraduates to PhD graduates)..
We identify, train, and advise outstanding company founders two to three years before other accelerators and investors. Our founders and their companies have impacted their community, raised additional capital, and created new jobs..
We identify, train, and advise outstanding company founders two to three years before other accelerators and investors. Our founders and their companies have impacted their community, raised additional capital, and created new jobs..
Join our Team or Volunteer
Bright Beacon’s advisors, associates, interns, and scouts can have an impact and develop experience in all stages of the investment process, including deal sourcing, industry & market analysis, due diligence, investment analysis, investment memos, term sheets, and advising portfolio companies. Our staff, associates, interns, and scouts are motivated, high energy, self starters, who believe in our mission.
Associates, Interns, and scouts typically have significant professional experience or they can be current students or recent graduates from undergraduate or graduate programs.
If you are interested in our mission to train and invest in underrepresented company founders, email your cover letter and resume to our team.
Associates, Interns, and scouts typically have significant professional experience or they can be current students or recent graduates from undergraduate or graduate programs.
If you are interested in our mission to train and invest in underrepresented company founders, email your cover letter and resume to our team.