Charmaine Hayden, who is currently raising money for her venture capital fund GOODsoil, does not have much love for the term BAME. The acronym has become widely used in the UK tech sector, from lists such as the FT’s ‘10 most influential BAME tech leaders in the UK’ and Nesta’s ‘BAME role models’ in tech to reports in Tech Nation on the percentage of BAME people in the industry.
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