The venture capitalist with a Silicon Valley solution for minority-owned businesses

A new kind of venture capital fund would use money from the US government to invest in companies that most need it

On first blush a Silicon Valley venture capitalist might not strike you as the first person to turn to when trying to address the racial wealth divide but these days we should take good ideas where we find them.

Ash Shrivastav works for Buckhill Capital, a Silicon Valley-based private equity and venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early stage and growth companies and real estate such as Elon Musk's SpaceX, a customer-owned banking platform called Good Money as well as apartment communities from New York to Washington State.