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Create Equity
Create Equity is a UK-based social enterprise focused on addressing racial disparities in funding for Black and Brown-led organizations in the creative industries. It provides consultancy, capacity-building programs, and manages a venture fund targeting early-stage investments.
Overview
What Create Equity does
What Create Equity is
Create Equity is a UK-based social enterprise focused on addressing racial disparities in funding for Black and Brown-led organizations in the creative industries. It provides consultancy, capacity-building programs, and manages a venture fund targeting early-stage investments.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
The current public profile supports funder and community capabilities. Each capability below is shown separately so organization identity and role-specific information do not get conflated.
Operational profile
Organization status and context
Organization status describes the entity itself. Funding and program availability appear within the relevant capability profile.
- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Other
- Founded
- Founded in 2021
- Approximate age
- About 5 years
- Structured capabilities
- Funder · Community
- Last reviewed
- May 6, 2026
Official channels
Find Create Equity elsewhere
Open the official website or a supported primary organization account.
Capability profile
Create Equity as a funder
Investment thesis
Create Equity focuses on making investment racially equitable, particularly for Black and Brown-led organizations in the arts, social enterprise, and commercial industries, addressing disparities in funding and support.
Focus narrative
Create Equity invests in and provides services aimed at addressing racial disparities in funding. Their activities include researching the causes of these disparities, running capacity-building programs tailored for Black and Brown-led organizations, assisting in securing funding, providing consultancy on equitable project delivery, building support networks, and advocating for Black and Brown leaders and entrepreneurs.
Value beyond capital
Create Equity adds value by providing tailored consultancy, capacity-building programs, and advocacy for Black and Brown-led organizations, helping them navigate funding opportunities and enhance their operational capabilities.
Terms and economics
- Typical check
- $250,000–$2,000,000
Focus and fit
- Stages
- Friends and Family · Angel · Accelerator · Pre-seed · Seed · Seed+ · Series A · Series A+ · Series B · Series B+ · Series C · Series C+ · Series D · Series E · Series F · Growth Equity
- Sectors
- Media & Entertainment
- Regions
- United Kingdom
Availability
- Currently deploying
- Not published
Portfolio and track record
Portfolio context
No specific portfolio companies have been disclosed publicly.
Capability profile
Create Equity as a community
Community overview
Create Equity is an organization dedicated to making investment racially equitable, particularly for Black and Brown-led organizations in the arts, social enterprise, and commercial industries. Founded by social entrepreneur Kevin Osborne, the organization aims to address disparities in funding and support for these groups. Based in the UK, Create Equity focuses on devising, designing, and delivering projects while conducting research to tackle market failures in grant funding, impact capital, and venture capital.
Community focus
Create Equity invests in and provides services aimed at addressing racial disparities in funding. Their activities include researching the causes of these disparities, running capacity-building programs tailored for Black and Brown-led organizations, assisting in identifying and securing funding, providing consultancy on equitable project delivery, building support networks, and advocating for Black and Brown leaders and entrepreneurs.
Member value
Members of Create Equity benefit from access to funding opportunities, capacity-building programs, consultancy services, and a supportive network of leaders and experts. The organization also provides resources to help members navigate the funding landscape and advocate for equitable capital.
Membership
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- hybrid
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Founders · Builders
- Benefits
- network-access and mentorship
- Program types
- community
- Selection criteria
- open and application
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed · Growth Equity
- Sectors
- Media & Entertainment
- Regions
- United Kingdom
Community activity
Events and activity
Create Equity does not currently host recurring events or signature gatherings.
Notable members
Notable members include Kevin Osborne (Founder), Sam Barcroft (Founder of Barcroft TV), Sir Peter Bazalgette (Former Chairman, ACE), Althea Efunshile (NED, Channel 4), and Tom Ilube (CEO, Crossword Cybersecurity).
Common questions
What to know about Create Equity
Upseed classifies Create Equity under the Other organization type. Its current public profile includes funder and community capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
Know what this page is based on
Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
May 6, 2026
Known limits
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