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
- How to reach it
- Its pitch / apply page on its own site
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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 21 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- CincyTech 1 shared company: enableinjections.com
- Ohio Innovation Fund 1 shared company: enableinjections.com
- AllerFund Ventures, LLC 1 shared company: allergyamulet.com
- Colle Capital 1 shared company: allergyamulet.com
- Deepwork Capital, LLC 1 shared company: allergyamulet.com
- Great Oaks Venture Capital 1 shared company: allergyamulet.com
- HealthX Ventures 1 shared company: allergyamulet.com
- GingerBread Capital 1 shared company: proovtest.com
- Portfolia Venture Management, LLC 1 shared company: proovtest.com
- SteelSky Ventures 1 shared company: proovtest.com
and 11 more — the graph.
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, approach_url
- 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
Record 8454 · added 2026-09-29 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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