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After selling computer-vision startup Partpic to Amazon in 2016 as one of the youngest Black women to lead a successful tech exit, Solomon now runs Google for Startups U.S., directing funding and mentorship to thousands of underrepresented founders nationwide.
Jewel Burks Solomon is the Managing Partner of Collab Capital, a venture capital firm investing in the building blocks of Black prosperity, including economic mobility, healthcare access, and community infrastructure.
Before launching Collab Capital, she served as Head of Google for Startups in the United States from 2019 to 2023, where she created the Black Founders Fund. Earlier, she co-founded Partpic, a computer vision technology company that was acquired by Amazon in 2016.
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