Black Young Professionals (BYP) Network is a company that empowers black professionals around the world to solve the problems they face through economic empowerment and connectivity. The company has grown from side hustle to a 6-figure revenue-generating company with over 40,000 members. BYP allows both members and corporate partners to avail a variety of offerings including webinars/events, blogs, newsletters, podcasts, a social networking app, and job board alerts. The company has about 60 corporate partners including Accenture, Facebook and Soho House. It has featured in publications including BBC, Roc Nation, and Forbes. BYP Network has won the Maserati Top 100 Most Innovative Companies and a place on The Mayor of London’s International Business Programme and London Stock Exchange Elite Program. The company will use the investment to have a user base of over 500,000 black professionals with 2% on its premium model in the next 18 months through marketing, scale its leadership, sales, and content teams, and improve its current technology platform to make it more intuitive.
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BYP Network Rating Review
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Rated on 17/07/2020
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£8,009,220
pre-money valuation
5.88%
equity available
1,204
investors
£709
pledge per investor
10440856
company number
Active
company status
21/10/2016
incorporated 8 years
Previous Funding rounds
20 Apr 24 | Seedrs | £853,982 / | 45.00% |
News
19. Kike Oniwinde, Founder & CEO at BYP Network - TechRound
06/12/2023 TechRound
BYP Network launches career advancement platform for Black professionals - Business Live
11/07/2023 Business Live
BYP Network: The community-led group advancing the careers of black professionals - Seedrs
14/04/2023 Seedrs
The onus shouldn't be on the Black community to improve diversity, says BYP Network CEO - Raconteur
30/09/2022 Raconteur
BYP Network, a U.K. based firm described as the ‘Black LinkedIn,’ heads to New York and Atlanta - Miami Herald
06/05/2023 Miami Herald
Here's the one thing you should do before pitching investors according to Kike Oniwinde of the BYP Network - TheGrio
02/07/2020 TheGrio
We need more women in technology, the tech industry is the future – Kike Oniwinde, CEO BYP Network - Guardian Nigeria
22/09/2018 Guardian Nigeria
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