Scott Kelly

CEO of Black Dog Venture Partners and host of VC Fast Pitch. Venture Capital and Business Development

📍 Greater Phoenix Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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Shareholder and Advisor
Oct 2022
Spinrack.IO is a community-driven next-generation vertically integrated web3 entertainment corporation with reach through the metaverse, motion pictures and streaming technologies.
Shareholder and Advisor
Aug 2022
REINVENTING PODCASTING with an obsessive focus on you, the podcast host. We build simple, easy-to-use solutions to help you and your brand look and sound like pros, get rewarded for original content creation, and retain and monetize your valuable intellectual property and platform authority. We ensure that you are SEEN, HEARD, AND FOUND in a noisy digital world and able to do what you do best — edutain an engaged audience. At Podetize, we pride ourselves on the power of our large worldwide team. They are trained specifically in what makes the best listener and host experience. Their job as the post-production engine of our clients is to make them look and sound their best. Our team members are continually growing as we grow, researching and testing the model of what works and what doesnt, and training to become deep experts in their area of expertise, podcasting, and the industry.
Shareholder and Advisor
Feb 2022
Game Gym offers a healthy and holistic approach to video games with live and online structured gaming sessions led by certified coaches designed to help any gamer play better and smarter! We help our community connect with esports and gaming through esports training programs, awesome summer camps, a variety of unique leagues and tournament series, and high-end productions and events.
Experience · 35 entries
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2026
Strategic Partner
Jun 2026
EVT is an IT consulting company focused on providing solutions that increase the productivity and efficiency of its customers. EVT’s products, services, and solutions help businesses make the most of their systems capabilities by obtaining relevant information that supports decision making and brings more competitiveness to organizations. Through the implementation of the best management platforms, puts all its process and efficiency expertise to customize solutions and meet the needs of their customers. Process simplification through innovative technologies are EVT’s scope, which provides its clients with the guarantee of operational excellence and business management solutions based on cutting-edge technologies. By getting involved and understanding the business of their customer base allows identifying needs, understanding processes and offering the most appropriate solutions to support the sustainable growth of the companies it serves.
Venture Scout
May 2026
LvlUp Ventures is a global venture capital firm investing in and accelerating early-stage & late-stage startups. LvlUp is ranked among the most active venture capital firms globally (#7 worldwide, #4 in the United States, and #1 in Consumer Goods & Technology — PitchBook). Our opportunistic investment thesis backs founders wherever opportunity emerges—where the intersection of our capital, expertise, and strategic partnership ecosystem unlocks a true level up in growth, unbound by sector or stage. Beyond capital, LvlUp operates as an extended team to founders—combining hands-on growth and fundraising support with a powerful ecosystem of corporate partners to give companies an unfair advantage as they scale. We are deeply focused on unlocking synergies across our portfolio through our extended-team ecosystem, deep corporate partnerships, and a technology backbone designed to create opportunities between companies at scale. LvlUp is powered by a global team of more than 2,500 core and extended members, united by a shared mission: helping founders build enduring, category-defining companies.
2025
Marketing Partner
Dec 2025
Automating one startup process at a time…
Marketing Partner
Aug 2025
Apriority is the first AI debt concierge for individuals- monitoring all your loans, finding hidden savings, and helping you build credit along the way. By cutting out lead-gen middlemen, we deliver best-in-class rates and clear guidance so you can pay less, strengthen your credit, and stay ahead of your financial future.
Marketing Partner
Aug 2025
7BC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm distinguished by its global network. We believe in true partnership with our portfolio companies, assisting founders to the best of our abilities and creating a global community of top-performing VC funds. Our diverse network aims to strategically support across all stages of development, including but not limited to: driving revenue growth, securing customers & partners, addressing technological challenges, raising follow-on rounds, accessing talent, and facilitating successful high-growth transformations. For 10+ years, weve been primarily investing at Late-Stage Seed and Series A rounds into transformative software companies. Additionally, we extend support to our existing portfolio companies via SPVs funded exclusively from our LPs up to exit. Our name ‘7BC’ (borderless continents) reflects our global reach, with Limited Partner investors from six continents, including key tech corridors across the U.S., Canada, South America, the UK, Nordics, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Singapore, Japan, and Australia.
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