Kelly O'Connell

Managing Partner at 360 Venture Collective

EVP & CEO- Fairstream
2018 - Current
ON ITS AXIS is an award-winning innovation consultancy that was founded in 2009 with a vision of helping companies build better products. Today we help some of the brightest, most forward-thinking organizations spark change, enhance agility, and optimize growth through our outcome-driven product and people® framework and Fairstream® Solutions. I have the privilege of leading our global people division. Fairstream is a platform-as-a-service talent acquisition solution designed to reduce common barriers to inclusive recruiting. Fairstream empowers organizations to meet diversity hiring metrics AND creates new career path opportunities for historically underestimated talent by leveraging ethical technology, community partnerships, and proven DEI methods. We are management consulting reimagined.

Managing Partner
2021
360 Venture Collective is a woman-founded and led venture firm with an intentionally inclusive investment thesis. We invest where market opportunity and social responsibility collide. We fund & accelerate pre-seed & seed stage American companies led by women and LGBTQ+ founders building venture-scale tech-enabled impact companies in the fin-tech, health-tech, future of work, and prop-tech sectors. Our team is deeply committed to providing funding, resources, and advisory support to innovative founders that have historically had limited access to venture capital funding.