In this episode, Tone and Larry chop it up with David Umeh. Umeh is Founder & CEO of Clouty, a music-fintech platform using data to unlock an entirely new asset class. Clouty is a new experience at the intersection of data, music, and finance. Turning music data into financial instruments, to reimagine the markets of today. As a first-gen hailing from the Bay Area and now living in Chicago, David has been an entrepreneur for almost a decade, leveraging his experiences to continue to take steps forward.
More about Umeh:
Umeh attended Hampton University and spent time working at BET, REVOLT, Hip Hop DX, and KarmaloopTV before pivoting to entrepreneurship full time.
Umeh's first venture was known as "HighSpeed Technologies" and was featured in publications like the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/a-bottle-of-juice-for-55-how-one-start-up-is-testing-the-limits-of-dcs-marijuana-law/2016/04/26/eb789eac-07de-11e6-a12f-ea5aed7958dc_story.html
More about HighSpeed Technologies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNA6M3eqmk
Tap in with Umeh:
@umehzingrace on instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-umeh-1898a637/
Welcome to the ScholarChip$ podcast hosted by Larry Alexander and Tone Gaines. Larry is a transactional attorney at a Fortune 100 Company. Tone is a Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions attorney at a large law firm in Chicago. But more importantly, both Larry and Tone are Black Men from the inner city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The duo started ScholarChip$ to (1) create a platform to have candid conversations with scholars and (2) normalize academics as a viable way to achieve upward mobility in Black and Brown communities.
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