DeShuna Spencer knew she had something back in 2014.

On a whim, she entered the UNITY Journalists for Diversity’s New U seed grant program and won $20,000 to develop a beta prototype for her streaming service KweliTV, an interactive streaming platform to share the African Diaspora experience around the world. After three years of refining the product, the company launched out of beta last fall.

“It took us two years to get out of beta,” Spencer told Technical.ly DC. “We relaunched four times, and I went through 10 developers in two years trying to figure it out. Every filmmaker stuck by us. I was blown away by that.”

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