1CodePath receives $15M grant from Mackenzie ScottOver the next 20 years, 3 million new software engineers will enter the tech industry. Yet employment statistics show that, while Black employees make up 13% of the workforce, they account for only four percent of tech workers — and even though Hispanic workers make up 17 percent of the workforce, they hold just 8% of STEM jobs. The tech-focused nonprofit CodePath changes that by providing these students with the tools they need for success, including industry-relevant knowledge, connections, specific hard and soft skills, and an understanding of how to navigate the job search and technical interview.Today, CodePath announced it received a $15 million gift from philanthropist Mackenzie Scott — the largest single gift in the organization’s history — recognizing the nonprofit’s work to reprogram higher education and provide students with opportunities to achieve tech excellence.The donation will enable CodePath to accelerate work toward the organization’s goal of reaching all college computer science students in the United States with innovative and industry-leading coursework, internship experience and career support. CodePath has been very active in South Florida, preparing students at Florida International University and other schools for tech jobs.“Through this generous unrestricted funding, we will invest in our organizational infrastructure to have a deeper economic impact in communities across the country and embed AI technologies across our curriculum and strategy — we will both reimagine what the computer science degree should be and ensure diverse talent helps drive innovation and progress forward,” says Michael Ellison, CodePath’s co-founder and CEO and a Miami resident.To date, CodePath has reached more than 20,000 students, and has alumni from 500 colleges working at 2,000 companies — 64 percent of the organization’s alumni are Black, Latino/a, Indigenous, low-income, or first-generation.2MoonPay launches a venture investment armMoonPay, the Miami-based Web3 infrastructure company, announced the launch of its investment arm, MoonPay Ventures, to support trailblazing early-state startups across the Web3 and fintech ecosystems. Beyond capital, MoonPay Ventures will offer portfolio companies access to top-tier teams, ideas, emerging business models, and go-to-market playbooks in Web3, allowing startups scale faster with the goal of faster adoption of Web3 technology.MoonPay Ventures will be led by Abhay Mavalankar, who joined MoonPay after a decade in investment banking and venture capital at Morgan Stanley, Centerview, and Cisco Investments. MoonPay Ventures has already made investments in several companies including BCB Group, BRUT, BeatClub, absolute labs, Create/OS, BridgeTower Capital, and Mythical Games.“As we continue building at MoonPay, we’re also committed to uplifting the standout players in our ecosystem so we can collectively work toward mass Web3 adoption

Former Facebook and Lyft executive will help develop talent and shape culture as the company scales around the world. WESTON, Fla., Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digibee, an enterprise integration platform as a service (eiPaaS) company that helps organizations build flexible, highly scalable integration architecture, today announced that Tia Phillips has joined the company in the role of chief people officer, effective October 2022. Phillips is a former Facebook and Lyft executive who brings more than two decades of enterprise software human resources experience and will be responsible for leading the people function at Digibee with a focus on acquiring and developing talent and shaping the culture to drive business