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Crypto Guapcoin Amplifies Voices of the Black Community

In 5 years, Guapcoin has more than 10,000 wallet holders

'This is something that will solve a lot of the problems within our community,' said Evans. 'The blockchain is a lens on how to keep the money circulating in the community.'Solin Vance Image

By Trishla Ostwal

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In 2015, Tavonia Evans was driving to various tech conferences across the U.S., pitching to investors to drum up funding for her startup. Safe2Meet is a peer-to-peer platform that identifies and verifies individuals’ background information.

After several months, one notion eventually dawned on Evans, mother of eight and grandmother to two: Getting funding as a Black woman wasn’t going to be easy.

Being a woman of color in the startup world is rare. Only 4% of tech founders are women of color, and only 3% of the computing tech force in the U.S. are