| 词条 | Blavity |
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| name = Blavity | url = {{URL|blavity.com}} | logo = | commercial = | type = New media and lifestyle for African Americans[1][2] | language = English | author = Morgan DeBaun Aaron Samuels | launch_date = {{start date and age|2014|07}} | alexa = {{increase}} 22,363 {{small|{{nowrap|(Global, January 2017)}}}} | current_status = Online }}Blavity is an American Internet media company and website based in Los Angeles, created by and for black millennials.[3][4][2] Their mission is to "economically and creatively support Black millennials across the African diaspora, so they can pursue the work they love, and change the world in the process."[5] FoundingBlavity was founded by Morgan DeBaun (CEO) and co-founded by Jonathan Jackson, Jeff Nelson and Aaron Samuels in 2014;[3][6] DeBaun had worked at Intuit for three years prior but left to found the new company. Blavity's is a combination of the words "black" and "gravity",[3] inspired by DeBaun's experience as an undergraduate at Washington University; she was struck that eating lunch with a few friends at their regular table in the college cafeteria over time attracted more and more black students to their discussions of everything from politics to pop culture, a kind of intellectual "black gravity".[7] Content, visitors and growthIn Essence, Lihle Z. Mtshali described the site as focused "on sub-cultures, community, and local happenings in different cities rather than covering celebrities and mainstream black culture."[7] The site contains approximately 40% user-generated content.[7] In September 2016, Blavity reached millions of unique visitors per month.[1] That month, the company closed a one million dollar round of seed funding.[1][4] In 2016, Blavity launched two conferences: EmpowerHer, a conference in New York City for black women,[8] and Afrotech, a San Francisco summit for black people in technology.[9] In 2017, Blavity launched a black women's lifestyle platform, 21Ninety[10], and acquired two other properties, the black entertainment website Shadow and Act[11] and the black travel website Travel Noire.[12] In July 2018, Blavity raised $6.5 million in new funding through GV, Comcast Ventures, Plexo Capital, and Baron Davis Enterprises. The funds are intended to increase the size of the company's engineering group, which works on new content, and establish a new office in Atlanta.[13][14][15] RecognitionIn 2016, two of the Blavity founders, DeBaun and Samuels, were named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of "young people transforming the future of America".[16] References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|author1=Sarah Buhr|title=Blavity, the BuzzFeed for black millennials, is raising $1 million and gets a redesign|url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/12/blavity-the-buzzfeed-for-black-millennials-gets-1-million-and-a-redesign/|website=TechCrunch|accessdate=January 10, 2017|date=September 12, 2016}} 2. ^1 {{cite web|author=Kaya Thomas|author-link=Kaya Thomas|title=Blavity Hopes To Be The Digital Voice of Black Millennials|url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/07/blavity-hopes-to-be-the-digital-voice-of-black-millennials/|website=TechCrunch|accessdate=January 10, 2017|date=September 7, 2015}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite web|author1=Mandi Woodruff|title=5 black business leaders who are changing the face of Silicon Valley|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/groundbreaking-business-leaders-silicon-valley-190329310.html|website=Yahoo Finance|accessdate=January 10, 2017|date=February 5, 2016}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|author1=Dayna Evans|title=How I Get It Done: Morgan DeBaun, Co-Founder and CEO of Content Platform Blavity|url=http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/11/how-the-co-founder-of-blavity-gets-things-done.html|website=NYmag.com|accessdate=January 10, 2017|date=November 9, 2016}} 5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://blavity.com/about|title=Blavity|last=|first=|date=|website=www.blavity.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=23 February 2017}} 6. ^{{cite news|last1=Ketchum|first1=John|title=Blavity's CEO on taking risks and building a community for black millennials|url=http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/20/technology/morgan-debaun-blavity/|accessdate=May 2, 2017|newspaper=CNN|date=April 20, 2017}} 7. ^1 2 {{Cite news|url=http://www.essence.com/culture/morgan-debaun-future-15|title=Meet Blavity Co-Founder Morgan DeBaun And The Digital Empire She's Building|last=Mtshali|first=Lihle Z.|date=2017-06-05|work=Essence|access-date=2017-06-25|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=https://blackgirlnerds.com/morgan-debaun-creator-blavity-talks-empowerher-first-conference-black-women-empowerher/|title=Morgan DeBaun’s Blavity, Talks "EmpowerHer," Their First Conference for Black Women: EmpowerHer|date=May 14, 2016|website=Black Girl Nerds|author1=Cynthia Franciillon|accessdate=May 2, 2017}} 9. ^{{cite magazine|date=February 15, 2017|title=Inside Blavity, the Startup on a Quest to Be the News Source for Black Millennials|url=https://www.wired.com/2017/02/black-news-matters-blavity/|magazine=Wired|last1=Brooks Jr.|first1=Carl|accessdate=May 2, 2017}} 10. ^https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/21ninety-blavity-black-women.php 11. ^https://www.jetmag.com/entertainment/this-celebrated-black-cinema-website-has-an-exciting-new-home/ 12. ^https://www.fastcompany.com/40469638/blavity-just-acquired-travel-noire-a-travel-site-for-black-millennials 13. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/news/2018/07/20/blavity-raises-cash-for-digital-media.html |title=Blavity raises $6.5 million for digital media for black millennials |first=Annlee |last=Ellingson |date=July 20, 2018 |work=L.A. Biz |accessdate=July 21, 2018 }} 14. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.blackenterprise.com/blavity-raises-money-black-founder/ |title=Blavity Founder Raises Over $6 Million in Funding |first=Selena |last=Hill |date=July 20, 2018 |work=Black Enterprise |accessdate=July 21, 2018 }} 15. ^{{cite web |url=https://hypepotamus.com/news/blavity-opens-atlanta-engineering-office/ |title=Black Millennial Media Startup Blavity Confirms It's Using Series A to Open Atlanta Office |first=Holly |last=Beilin |date=August 28, 2018 |work=Hypepotamus |accessdate=September 8, 2018 }} 16. ^{{cite web|author1=Emily Inverso|title=30 Under 30: Meet The Young People Transforming Media|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilyinverso/2016/01/04/30-under-30-meet-the-young-people-transforming-the-future-of-media/|website=Forbes|accessdate=January 10, 2017|date=January 4, 2016}} Further reading
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