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Sevetri Wilson is the Founder and CEO of Resilia, a SaaS technology platform that helps nonprofit organizations increase capacity and enables funders to scale impact and provide on-demand technical assistance to their partners. Headquartered in New Orleans with a second office in New York, Resilia was named to Venture Beat’s top startups to watch out for in 2019, and in 2020 named a Rising Star on the Forbes Cloud 100 List. Sevetri was named in Inc. Magazine’s 100 Female Founders building world-changing companies and in PitchBook’s 27 leading Black founders and investor list in 2019. In 2022, Resilia announced its Series B raise, making Sevetri one of few Black women in history to have raised close to $50M in venture funding. Sevetri’s second book, Resilient: How to Overcome Anything and Build a Million Dollar Business With or Without Capital was released in 2021 and became an instant Wall Street Journal bestseller. Prior to Resilia, Sevetri founded Solid Ground Innovations, LLC., a nonprofit management and strategic communications agency. Sevetri is a 2010 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Public Service and the Jefferson Award, and her work was featured in the U.S. Senate report to the White House on Volunteerism in the U.S., under President Obama. Sevetri’s work and that of her clients has been featured in national publications such as USA Today, Time Magazine, and CNN, and serves as a voice for historically underserved communities. She is a member of the 2023 Class of Henry Crown Fellows within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.
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