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“Think of me as an aspiring Robert Smith,” Sherrese Clarke, founder and CEO of HarbourView Equity Partners, says, name-checking the billionaire tech entrepreneur who founded Vista Equity Partners. “He built a [private equity] business around enterprise software. We are doing that in the business of culture.”According to a 2024 report by investment firm Fairview Capital Partners, there are more than 1,000 women- and minority-owned private equity and venture capital firms in the U.S., of which only 168 are Bl ...