Morgan DeBaun

Angel

Overview

Gender
female
Investor Type
Angel

Since launching Blavity Inc. in 2014, Morgan has led the company to successfully acquire Travel Noire, a travel platform for Black millennials and Shadow And Act, a Black entertainment news site. Launched several profitable consumer summits, including Summit 21 for Black women creators and entrepreneurs and Bay Area’s AfroTech, the largest tech conference for Black innovators and founders. All while scaling our internal operations, raising over 11 million dollars in venture funding.

Morgan is also the founder of M.Roze Essentials, a natural skin care & WorkSmart, an advising program teaching small business owners how to scale their business.

Graduated top of her class from Washington University in St. Louis with a major in Political Science and minors in Entrepreneurship and Education. She was the youngest student body president elected at Wash. U. and is a recipient of the John B. Ervin Scholars Program.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
1
Morgan DeBaun has made 1 investments. Their most recent investment was on Mar 2, 2020, when Public.com raised $15M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Mar 2, 2020 Public.com Series B $15M Cryptocurrency Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
1
Morgan DeBaun has 1 current jobs including Founder & CEO at Blavity , .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Blavity Founder & CEO Sep 1, 2014 Detail