Scott Shane
Venture Partner at Right Side Capital Management
Cleveland, Ohio
Overview
Work Experience
Professor
2003 - Current
Teach and research entrepreneurial finance, technology entrepreneurship, and new venture creation.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2018
Assist early stage Ohio-based high potential startups on behalf of the Youngstown Business Incubator.
Youngstown Business Incubator is a business incubator. It focuses on developing B2B software application companies. The company offers
Raised $3,270,000.00 from Appalachian Regional Commission, U.S. Small Business Administration, Youngstown Foundation and Appalachian Regional Commission.
Venture Partner
2018
Source pre-seed deals for the fund.
Right Side Capital Management is a technology startup investment firm focused exclusively on the pre-seed stage.
Partner
2018
Invested in and and assist early stage startups. (Comeback Capital is now fully-deployed. Therefore "invest" is in the past tense and "assist" is in the present tense.)
Member Board of Directors
2024
Over Easy Foods is a food and beverage company that specializes in a range of gluten free oat meals.
Raised $8,503,489.00.
Member Board of Directors
2023
Playfora is redefining e-commerce with a payment application that makes it easy to sell items via limited-entry raffles.
Raised $775,000.00.
Member Board of Directors
2023
Aropha provides product testing laboratory pioneering the application of automation and AI to advance biodegradability testing.
Raised $1,000,000.00 from Right Side Capital Management, Comeback Capital and Lightbank.
Member Board of Directors
2023
Member Board of Directors
2022
Benefitbay is the first-of its-kind, end-to-end solution that enables employers to offer personalized benefits for the modern workforce.
Raised $7,527,393.00 from Right Side Capital Management, Comeback Capital, Right Side Capital Management, Invest Nebraska and Liquid 2 Ventures.
Education
Ph. D.
1989 - 1992