About

Diamond Ventures is a 200MM Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) venture capital firm in formation.  Diamond Ventures has the Green Light letter inviting it to apply to be a SBIC.  Diamond Ventures (DV)  is a venture capital firm organized to invest in and lend to highly qualified entrepreneurs, many of which may be minority or women-owned businesses. We are interested in finance and relationship opportunities with firms that are involved in government contracting, and diversity suppliers to the Fortune 500. We look for companies that have high growth opportunities with these two sectors as key customers.

Our objective is to invest across various strategic sectors with risk adjusted returns to participate in the multi-billion dollar diversity, DBE, and government contracting opportunities anchored within 200 miles of our operating offices in either Washington, D.C. or Atlanta, throughout the east coast, and southeast.

DV expects to balance financial and social returns with its investors in the following socially underserved areas:

• Minority Entrepreneurs: DV will assist highly qualified minority  and women entrepreneurs gain access to capital, government contracts, and corporate preferred purchase programs.
• Jobs in Low-Income Areas: DV plans to lead the push to serve underserved markets in the U.S. by finding, coordinating and financing businesses that create jobs in areas such low-income areas and inner cities. Our track record proves our commitment.
• Corporate Purchasing Conduit for Stronger Minority-Owned Businesses: DV will work with large U.S. corporations to help them work with stronger, minority-owned businesses.

Strategic Corporate Stakeholders

Diamond seeks to work strategically and collaboratively with its Strategic Corporate Stakeholders to achieve collateral benefits that complement Diamond’s over-arching goal of generating double digit bottom line returns – market rate investment returns and job creation.

Building Stronger Suppliers of Color

Diamond also plans to work strategically and collaboratively with the National Minority Supplier Development Council and its local affiliates, which have as its members over 3500 large Corporations and over 15,000 businesses owned by persons of color.

Strategic Advantage

The Diamond Ventures team has:

• An unparalleled collective 100+ year track record of investing in and lending to underserved businesses and people of color.
• A 30 year track record of investing and lending into over 1000 businesses, many of which were ethnic, minority or in under-served areas.
• High quality deal flow in its target region via numerous high-level government contacts, community bank contacts, and with its advisors.
• Access to the CEO’s of minority owned banks and their deal flow.
• The demonstrated ability to invest with and obtain senior debt from banks.
• Proven that it can save or create thousands of jobs.
• Blazed a trail to allow black, women and minority managers to become a SBIC.
• Diamond will leverage up to a $200 Million fund into $500-$800 Million in capital formation using secure debt from banks.