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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Member - Board of Directors

    2020

    https://alfsv.org/about-us/board/

  • 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

  • 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.

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