Underrepresented founders are also under-funded and under-resourced, and yet, are still expected to over-deliver.

Underrepresented founders are also under-funded and under-resourced, and yet, are still expected to over-deliver.

Khadijah has led an impressive career as a Harvard-trained lawyer and innovator in her several years working in the tech industry. She has spoken across the country, from Wharton - the leading business school in the US, to Salesforce’s Dreamforce - the largest software conference in the world.

She pivoted from working as a corporate lawyer to running a startup after launching her business with just a Google spreadsheet in 2019. In 2020, just three weeks after the public launch of her first startup, The Nile List, she won the first-ever virtual Black Girl Ventures Pitch Competition. Khadijah sold her first startup to Sean ‘Love’ Combs less than two years after founding it, and made it her mission to help create pathways to success for Black entrepreneurs and Black people in the tech/startup spaces since then. After the acquisition, she continued her mission by running Empower Global, the most cutting-edge marketplace of Black-made products, built in partnership with Salesforce and backed by Combs Enterprises, for two years. Throughout her tenure, several well-known industry publications, including The Grio, Forbes, CNBC, Today.com, BUST Magazine, and more, have featured Khadijah amplifying her mission and work.

Currently, Khadijah is breaking the mold of fashion by building CustomQuo, a tech-enabled custom clothing company.

expertise

  • Photo of Khadijah Robinson sitting on stage discussing "Diversity is Our Culture" with Chrystina Woody-Train

    Business Leadership

    Khadijah has experience both bootstrapping a startup from inception to acquisition, and also running a high-growth company with millions of dollars in investment. She is passionate about equipping more women, and Black and brown founders and business leaders to grow with success.

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  • Khadijah Robinson on the blue carpet at Salesforce's Dreamforce Conference

    Entrepreneurship

    Over the course of her career, Khadijah has interfaced with and partnered with hundreds of Black entrepreneurs operating in various fields. She aims to help Black entrepreneurs secure needed funding, gather resources to grow and scale their businesses, and gain much-needed exposure in order to close the gap created by racist institutions aimed to limit Black wealth.

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  • Khadijah Robinson and Renee King of Fund Black Founders

    E-Commerce Fundamentals

    Khadijah’s area of focus has always been ecommerce and brands that are digital-first. She has background in digital marketing strategies, creating omni-channel experiences, branching out into retail, building partnerships to scale, and other aspects of growth for ecommerce brands and practices.

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highlights

Harvard-trained lawyer with several years experience in team management, leadership, problem-solving, client service, and innovation for social good.

  • Bootstrapped and operated her first technology business with The Nile List (est. 2019), focusing on building connections between conscientious consumers and Black ecommerce brands

  • Spearheaded strategic partnerships to bring awareness and access to Black-owned businesses with entities such as Netflix and Shopify

  • The Nile List acquired by Sean “Love” Combs through Empower Global after less than 2 years of operation.

  • Served as CEO of Empower Global for 2 years

  • Featured in media such as Forbes, Marketwatch, The Grio, and BUST Magazine.

  • Has spoken at events hosted by Salesforce, Black Women Talk Tech, All Raise, and more.

CEO of CustomQuo, where she is breaking the mold of fashion

2020 Startup Standup Interview with Marc Lore, CEO of Walmart E-Commerce

PAST speaking engagements

  • Salesforce is a US cloud-based software company, and one of the largest in the world. Khadijah has spoken at Dreamforce, on of the largest conferences in the world.

  • Khadijah brought together a set of entrepreneurs to lead a Digital Empowers Summit Working Session talk for The United States Chamber of Commerce titled ‘Building a Black Tech Ecosystem and Supporting Social Entrepreneurship.’

  • Women of Color and Capital™ is where diverse women entrepreneurs & professionals come together to learn about money, finance, capital and investing from a 360-degree lens. Khadijah spoke at the virtual summit in 2021.

  • Khadijah served as a keynote speaker at the 2022 Whitney M. Young, Jr. Memorial Conference, speaking about entrepreneurship hardships and the pathway to success for early-stage founder.

  • Founded in 2016 by Serial Entrepreneur and Computer Scientist Shelly Bell, The Black Girl Ventures Foundation (BGV) addresses the unique challenges Black/Brown women face in accessing social and financial capital to grow their businesses. The BGV Style pitch competition is the largest pitch competition globally for Black/Brown women founders. It uniquely combines the premise of Shark Tank and Kickstarter by activating community participation in donating to support women-owned businesses directly.

  • BWTT created a tech conference designed specifically for Black women tech entrepreneurs to create a space where black women could for once, be seen and heard and have their ideas invested in. Their conference is now the largest convening of Black women tech entrepreneurs and technologists.

  • VidCon is an annual convention for fans, creators, executives, and online brands. The event primarily features prominent video stars from across the internet.

  • All Raise is a community, a movement, and a rallying cry centered on the belief that our personal ambitions can and will include the prosperity of all women. Khadijah spoke at All Raise’s 2021 When Founder Met Funder program alongside Arlan Hamilton, Charles Hudson, and more.

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