​Our mission is to "Narrow the historical disparity of early stage capital investment in scalabe businesses led by underrepresented entrepreneurs by preparing talented founders to optimize business growth and navigate the private capital raising process." 

​TMF’s thought leadership and programs provide entrepreneurs with unique access to experts, investors, mentors and peers to transform their businesses.
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Accessing Capital: 

The TMF sponsors private investor roundtables and facilitates meet ups for graduates of our cohort programs. We are also affiliated with The Marathon Fund (www.themarathonfund.com), a for-profit and professionally managed early stage growth Fund that my also assist many program graduates and other qualifying underrepresented entrepreneurs in directly funding their growth aspirations.

Developing Talent:  ​Marathon Training for Entrepreneurs

​Creating Deals:  Unique Opportunities from our ecosystem

To ensure the development of TMF's entrepreneurs, we offer activities and programs that enhance knowledge and encourage the sharing of best practices, research, and industry trends. These programs include: 

• Pre-seed Capital Access Program (PCAP)
• Seed Capital Access Program (SCAP)
• Venture Capital Access Program (VCAP)

Marathon's thought leadership and programs create a vibrant
eco-system for diverse entrepreneurs, investors and
industry supporters to curate promising deal flow opportunities.