How A Black, Non-Technical Founder From Brooklyn Raised $68 Million

Donnel Baird is not your “archetypal” startup founder.

Nathan Beckord
Entrepreneurship Handbook
4 min readJul 19, 2021

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Donnel Baird is a Black startup founder who raised $68 million in venture capital.

Donnel Baird’s company BlocPower appears to tick all the boxes for an emerging cleantech startup. The company is focused on sustainability and social justice, using machine learning and an innovative financing solution to, as he says, “turn buildings into…

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