A year after settling anti-DEI suit, Fearless Fund expands its mission
NEW YORK — September a year ago, Arian Simone said she made a vow.
Simone made that promise the day she settled the landmark racial discrimination lawsuit that made her and her Atlanta-based venture capital firm Fearless Fund the first targets in the fight against corporate diversity, equity and inclusion.
A conservative group had sued Fearless Fund and the firm’s nonprofit over a contest aimed at supporting women of color founders.
From the day of the settlement forward, she said she would not cower nor change her mission of economic inclusion and freedom for women of color founders. Instead, she said she would expand her work to close those funding gaps, not just in the U.S. but across the globe for the Black diaspora.
