The NewMe Accelerator: Helping Minority Startups Get the Right Start

Taking an idea from a dream state to the marketplace just got easier for a few entrepreneurs who will participate this summer in New Media Entrepreneurship, the first technology accelerator for minority-led startups. The NewMe Accelerator will bring in entrepreneurs from around the country to join other startup leaders in California’s Silicon Valley, where together they will participate in nine weeks of intense business development. “We have speaker dinners with people from Twitter, Foursquare, and other major companies,” said Angela Benton, CEO of Black Web Media and one of the founders of NewMe. “We have mentors from top VCs, angel investors, Facebook, and others, and we’ll have a demo day also at the end of the program.”