Lightship Capital
lightship.capital Direct + LP
Lightship Capital is a Cincinnati-based venture capital fund that invests in early-stage businesses led by underrepresented founders. Its Anchor Fund invests in venture fund managers and selectively co-invests in their portfolio companies across the Americas, Africa, and Europe.
Lightship Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Cincinnati, United States. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from pre-seed to Series A, in consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), E-Commerce, sustainability and artificial Intelligence.
“Lightship Capital invests in remarkable businesses led by FOC (Founders of Color), LBGTQ+, Women & Innovators with Disabilities.”
— Lightship Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Cincinnati, United States
- Invests in
- United States, Americas, Africa, Europe
- Sectors
- Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), E-Commerce, Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
Team, as Lightship Capital publishes it
- Candice Matthews Brackeen General Partner
- Brian Brackeen General Partner
- Alexis Alston Partner
- Marlon Avery Engineering Director
- Brian Brackeen Managing Partner
- Ollen Douglass Managing Partner
- Vernon Lee Jr. Managing Partner
- Jennell Lynch Operating Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on lightship.capital. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Lightship Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.lightship.capital/name, hq_country, hq_city, status, confidence
- https://www.lightship.capital/aboutis_investor, type, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, people
- https://www.lightship.capital/anchorfundlayer, people
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