Blavity Inc.

CTL-E-0659 · Business · other · 2014-present; 2014–present

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Venture-backed digital media company for Black millennials; owns Blavity, 21Ninety, Shadow and Act, Travel Noire, AfroTech, and Home & Texture, plus an ad network for publishers of color.

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Also known as: Blavity

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MEDIA-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MEDIA-001:MED-024; source research type(s): Business.

Sources

Wikipedia, 'Blavity'; Black Enterprise, 'Blavity Founder Raises Over $6 Million in Funding' (2018)
Black Enterprise (2018); Moguldom; Wikipedia, 'Blavity' (primary source)
Wikipedia, 'Blavity'; Adweek, 'Blavity, After Doubling Ad Revenue, Restructures and Launches New SaaS Product' (2023)
Journal-isms, 'Blavity Rises to Most Popular Black Website'
TechCrunch, 'Blavity has a big opportunity with Black millennials, despite struggling to fit the VC 'formula'' (primary source)
admissions.washu.edu
hotpaths.com; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfroTech
blackenterprise.com

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