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10 Young Black Tech Innovators You Should Know

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Screen Shot 2013-10-14 at 12.45.49 PMKhisaun Ferguson 

Khisaun Ferguson is a real estate executive-turned-founder of the Cincinnati software company Dwllr. Dwllr is a “tech cocktail” of Google, Amazon, and Salesforce,  which helps consumers and real estate professionals buy and sell property online. Dwllr was selected as one of the seven companies to participate in the NewMe Accelerator, a residential tech accelerator for minority-led startups presented by Google, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, social media company Tagged and other corporate sponsors.

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jamarlin-martinJamarlin Martin

Los Angeles native Jamarlin Martin, 35, planted the seed for Moguldom Media Group in 2006 with a $6 domain name investment. Since then, the company – which bills itself as the world’s largest network of owned and operated digital brands focusing on African-Americans, as measured by comScore online reach – says it has seen strong year over year growth. In fact, Moguldom says revenue surged 150 percent from 2011 to 2012.

Based in Atlanta, Moguldom is engaging its audience on a variety of fronts – from its network of five websites, including gossip site Bossip; to its mobile apps and original web series that have the highest engagement in the industry, with more traffic than BET, Interactive One, Vibe and Essence combined, according to the company.

In addition, Moguldom garners 80 million total page views per month across all five of its websites; Bossip, Madame Noire, StyleBlazer, 24Wired and Hip Hop Wired.

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