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Black-led start-up businesses struggle to access funding
Less than 1% of all venture capital funding given to UK start-ups between 2009 and 2019 went to those with black founders.
Google has been trying to do something about that for the past three years - its Black Founders Fund gives $4 million (around £3.3 million) to start-ups and as London Tech Week gets underway, its unveiled this year's ten recipients.
One of them is Lottie Whyte, the co-founder of Myomaster and she shared her experience with presenter Rahul Tandon.
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