Investor actively backing innovative startups and growth-stage companies across various industries and funding rounds.
Verified emails & LinkedIn for founders across this portfolio.
Give Merit will transform long-vacant land on Grand River Avenue into a youth community hub with sports fields.
Black Tech Saturdays is an organization that promotes Detroit’s Black tech entrepreneurs.
Design Core Detroit is a non-profit organization recognized by UNESCO as an iconic educational, creative, and artistic hub.
Detroit Horse Power is to give under-resourced youth a safe and enriching space that furthers their future development.
JLGPartnership is a organization dedicated to creating a vibrant, welcoming space that honors the strength and resilience.
Black Leaders Detroit is a non-profit organization that provides financial support for diverse social and community impact projects.
INIT is a non-profit organization empowering underserved communities to launch careers in technology.
LION Publishers is the nation's only membership organization for Local Independent Online News Publishers.
AI fusing people + data for faster, smarter infrastructure, emergency response, and risk modeling
Rebuild Local News is the premier nonpartisan, nonprofit group that develops and promotes successful public policies.
Indiegraf provides support, assistance, and resources to independent news outlets.
CodePath is a nonprofit increasing diversity in tech by transforming CS college education.
Inclusive Prosperity Capital is a mission-driven specialty finance organization working at the intersection of community development.
The American Journalism Project is the first venture philanthropy organization dedicated to local news.
Public Media Company's mission is to maximize the relevance and impact of public media for all.
HiveBio is a local accelerator program that aims to support underrepresented founders in the life sciences space.
Center for Black Innovation is a national organization with the understanding that smart cities and communities.
Report for America is a service program that places journalists into local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues.
NewsMatch elevated nonprofit news through GivingNewsDay which saw journalists, celebrities.
Signal Cleveland is a newsroom that fuses community building with news reporting.
Knight Foundation has invested in 40 companies tracked in our database. The portfolio spans multiple industries and funding stages, from seed-stage startups to late-stage companies.
Knight Foundation's top investment sectors include Non Profit, News, Communities, Journalism, Information Technology. The firm invests across 34 different industry categories.
Among tracked funding rounds, American Journalism Project received $25.0M in a Grant round. Knight Foundation's total known invested capital is $100.5M.
Knight Foundation's average investment size is $2.9M across its portfolio of 40 companies.
Recent Knight Foundation portfolio additions include Give Merit, Black Tech Saturdays, Design Core Detroit, Detroit Horse Power, Joe Louis Greenway Partnership. These companies were founded in 2020 or later.