Congratulations to longtime members Deborah Gladney and Angela Muhwezi-Hall, cofounders of WorkTorch, the career discovery platform for service workers, on their $2.2 million seed round. They recently rebranded from QuickHire to WorkTorch to expand their product offerings. Wichita-based Tenzing Capital and Josh Oeding led the new round.

WorkTorch has now raised over $4M, which makes Gladney and Muhwezi-Hall two of the very few black women to raise significant VC funds. In 2021, U.S. startups raised $329.9B, but black women received less than 0.35 percent of that amount (according to research firm jdsupra.com).

Read more at the links below:

Read about the raise and rebrand in last week’s article in TechCrunch here.

Read the official press release on PR Newswire here.

Read about the raise and rebrand in Startland News here.

Congratulations to the entire WorkTorch team, many of whom we’ve had to the pleasure of getting to know over the past few years. They play an integral part in our community.