How Black Entrepreneur Plans To Improve Black Tech Community Using Black Tech Street

During the Tulsa Race Massacre commemoration, businessman Tyrance Billingsley 11 launched an organization to help Black entrepreneurs residing in the areas once called Black Wall Street.

The entrepreneur, a Black Tulsan native, collaborated with SecondMuse for the launch of Black Tech Street.

SecondMuse is a national tech hub and initiative with an objective to organize resources and firms to put up a society for Black-owned technology institutions.

“I am a born and raised Tulsa community leader, entrepreneur, and ecosystem builder. I excel in visioning and convening people to work together toward building collective progress, “said Billingsley.

SecondMuse has ten years of experience in producing entrepreneurial ecosystems to create non-discriminatory economies.

Black Tech Street will embark on a mission of developing a stronger Black tech ecosystem in Tulsa. The group will focus on six primary pillars, which include:

• Policy

• Workforce

• Infrastructure

• Capital

• Culture, narrative, and community

• Entrepreneurial support

Billingsley further said Black Tech Street’s mission is to breathe life back into the existence of Black Wall Street as a leading Black Innovation Economy.

Black Tech Street has resolved to pursue all possible avenues and co-design a decade innovation strategy for the Tulsa ecosystem while incorporating the six pillars.

Additionally, the tech hub will hold various programming spanning K-12 STEM education.

They will also spin up new financial vehicles and a narrative campaign within Tulsa to be a new home for Black Tech innovations.

Currently, Black Tech is appealing for funds alongside various organizations with plans to finance programming activities through obtaining contracts.

Below are long term goals Billingsley plans to accomplish with Black Tech Street:

• Ensure Tulsa is known as an international haven for Black Tech excellence.

• Promote large tech companies to build remote Black workforces they create out of Tulsa.

• Speed up building of Tulsa Black Innovative Economy worth $1billion worth of investment in the next ten years.

• To serve as the stepping stone for a global movement that generates a culture shift and see Black people all over to champion for technology to positively impact the world and build wealth.

For more information regarding what Billingsley envisions for Black Tech Street, read this piece.