Shelly Kapoor Collins
Founder of Nex Cubed
Washington, District of Columbia
Overview
Work Experience
Advisor - HBCU Founders Fund
2022 - Current
Advisor to the HBCU Founders Fund to bring equity in entrepreneurship to founders of color.
Nex Cubed FinTech specializes in accelerating transformative fintech solutions.
Investor/Member
2022
Broadway Angels is an angel investment group made up of world-class investors and business executives who all happen to be women. We all have decades of experience investing in and managing the best technology companies in the world. All of us are or have been General Partners in venture capital firms or Senior Executives in top technology and consumer companies. For most of us, we have been the only woman partner or senior executive in our firm. All of us have built great careers and portfolios along with amazing relationships with entrepreneurs and executives.
Broadway Angels is an angel investment group made up of investors and business executives who all happen to be women.
Partner
2021
Sway Ventures is a US-based venture capital firm investing in early to mid-stage technology companies. Shelly is an Investment Partner at Sway Ventures where she leads early stage investing in Technology companies founded by women and diverse founders.
Sway Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early to mid-stage technology companies.
Advisor
2021
Sports betting and gaming startup for casual fans co-founded by Jaymee Messler and Kevin Garnett. Especially excited to help accelerate the #betonwomen movement: "Betting on women will drive increased audience, engagement and revenue for both the sportsbooks as well as the sports themselves. It's a movement." --Jaymee Messler, CEO and Co-Founder, Gaming Society
Gaming Society is a gamification company that provides content around sports, entertainment, and culture.
Raised $3,500,000.00 from Acies Investments and TLI Bedrock.
Founder
2021
The Shatter Foundation is an education nonprofit and the philanthropic arm of the Shatter Fund. The Foundation connects girls in underserved communities with access to capital, networks and markets to foster an inclusive economy and equitable entrepreneurship.
Founding Partner -- The Shatter Fund
2017
As General Partner of the Shatter Fund, my focus is on investing in disruptive female founded and led Technology companies. Why? It's the smart thing to do.
The Shatter Fund exclusively invests in high potential disruptive technology companies led by female entrepreneurs.
Member - Board of Directors
2020
https://alfsv.org/about-us/board/
ALFSV is a network of regional leaders committed to serving the common good in Silicon Valley.
Advisor and Investor
2020
Commentator --Global Affairs
2016
Honored to contribute to the conversation by shining the spotlight on the critical importance of financial inclusion for women on a global level, including access to capital. https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/profiles/911-shelly-kapoor-collins/profiles/international-blog.php @PennLawIntl
Advisor and Investor
2016 - 2022
GLAMSQUAD is a next-generation, omni-channel beauty brand offering services as well as hair styling and makeup products.
Raised $28,000,000.00 from Boathouse Capital.
Entrepreneurship Task Force - Member
2020 - 2021
The California Governor’s Office of Economic Development Entrepreneurship Task Force serves as a working group to share ideas and solutions to propel California’s next generation of innovative entrepreneurs and small and medium businesses and to ensure that all California startups and established firms have access to the resources to grow or scale. Selected taskforce members are volunteers and my focus as always is the community of female entrepreneurs.