“Many people don’t know that Healthy Hip Hop was selected to pitch on season seven of Shark Tank, and closed a deal with Kevin O’Leary (aka ‘Mr. Wonderful),” CEO Roy Scott said in a virtual release. The episode was pulled and the deal dropped, Scott says, because Disney saw his company as competition. Shark Tank airs on ABC, a Disney property. “Everything came back, full circle, and I’m excited to announce that we have been selected to pitch on the ‘Meet the Drapers’ show, which is like the Silicon Valley version of Shark Tank.”
Roy Scott, Healthy Hip Hop CEO
That show is set to air Feb. 20. It can be live-streamed at DraperTV.com
Healthy Hip Hop, relaunched in 2017, is a two-person Kansas City startup with an online platform that allows educators to stream music and video content that supports their curriculum to their classroom smart board. The company also has an app that allows students to create their own content in a child-safe environment.
Grants and Investmet
In October, 2020 the company was awarded $100,000 from the Google Black Founders fund, on top of a $2,500 LEANLAB award mid-2020, bringing it’s total to $272,500 in non-dilutive grants from the likes of Arch Grants, Digital Sandbox, Launch KC and the Regnier Institute Challenge. It has also raised $415,000 in capital from the Missouri Technology Corporation, Voqal (Denver), and Full Scale (Leawood, KS), as well as unnamed angel investors.
LeanLab Awards Health Hip Hop and 18 Others
