Colleen Kazemi (She/Her/Hers)

Social Impact Innovator | Executive Leadership Coach | Partnership Architect

📍 Denver, Colorado, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2015𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Aug 2015
TomboyX is disrupting the $13B apparel industry, starting at the foundation - underwear. With a keen focus on fit and quality, we are for every body. Our brand promise is to help you feel comfortable in your own skin and to be unapologetically you - all day, every day. In 2018, TomboyX was listed as #231 in Inc Magazine's fastest growing companies. Customers rave about the quality and are passionate about the brand.
Mentor and Investor
Sep 2014
Since its 2015 founding, MergeLane has invested in 44 companies and recruited a network of 300 mentors and 600 investors. MergeLane leverages this network, its focus on Conscious Leadership, and the MergeLane Funderator to prove that diverse leadership teams drive superior investor returns. MergeLane is an on-ramp for the extraordinary.
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2020
Chief Executive Officer
Apr 2020
Since our inception in 2000, we have believed that nothing truly great is accomplished alone. With that in mind, SVP pools resources from the Denver community and leverages the time and talent of Denver professionals to increase the effectiveness of the nonprofit sector. We cultivate effective philanthropists, strengthen nonprofits, and invest in collaborative solutions – building powerful relationships to tackle our community’s challenges. We are a global network of local partners aligning passion with purpose to build communities intent on solving our most challenging issues. Engaged philanthropy! SVP Denver is a project of the Colorado Nonprofit Development Center
2017
Senior Partner Development Manager
Nov 2017
Return Path is the leader in email deliverability. Every day, tens of thousands of customers trust Return Path data and insights to help them optimize their email marketing. Partnered with best-in-class email service providers, we help marketers take their email programs to the next level by driving more response and increasing revenue. Return Path was acquired by Validity in May 2019. The combination of Return Path and Validity provides organizations with the most comprehensive technology solutions to target, contact, engage, and retain customers effectively.
2016
VP, Marketing (Interim)
Oct 2016
P2Binvestor is the leading marketplace lender for $500K to $10M A/R and inventory lines of credit for businesses that cant get traditional bank financing. P2Binvestor allows these companies to leverage our easy-to-use online platform to receive financing from P2Bis crowd of accredited investors and community bank partners. This scalable, growth capital helps these thriving businesses cover payroll, produce additional inventory, and other necessary expenses. Unlike other online small cap lenders, were all about providing REAL growth capital to help your business soar. Ranging from $500K to $10M, we provide higher lines of credit than any other online lender that can scale with you as you continue to grow. As a client’s financial health gets stronger, they are able to access more affordable capital through our marketplace without having to reapply and P2Bi can eventually graduate them to one of our approved bank partners for even cheaper bank financing once they’ve outgrown our program. Furthermore, we pride ourselves on our relationships, working with you through thick and thin, and becoming a partner that helps your business grow. Once onboarded, youll interact with the same Client Success Manager every time you have a question or concern. We dont trick you with hidden fees and clauses, everything is transparent up-front. Youll receive a white glove​ treatment where we make YOU the priority on the path to bankability. Core to our offering is our lending platform. It combines risk monitoring with robust underwriting to provide clients and banks with complete transparency and control, enabling real-time account monitoring and management. > Why banks partner with us: It’s pretty simple; banks want to finance high-growth companies, even if they don’t yet qualify for traditional loans. By partnering with us, banks can access and fund these types of businesses while maintaining complete control of their participations through our platform. Each facility in this program is half financed by banks, half financed by our crowd of investors, with the bank taking payment priority. This shared investment model ensures risk is minimized and reward maximized. Learn more: https://www.p2bi.com/banks/ > Why investors join our crowd: P2Bi offers accredited investors the opportunity to finance growing businesses and receive outsized returns. We handle all of the sourcing, screening, and underwriting to find exceptional companies that are growing fast and have the collateral to securitize financing. By joining our crowd of investors, you can access exciting companies that are quickly becoming market leaders. Learn more: https://www.p2bi.com/investors/
2015
Board Member
Aug 2015
TomboyX is disrupting the $13B apparel industry, starting at the foundation - underwear. With a keen focus on fit and quality, we are for every body. Our brand promise is to help you feel comfortable in your own skin and to be unapologetically you - all day, every day. In 2018, TomboyX was listed as #231 in Inc Magazine's fastest growing companies. Customers rave about the quality and are passionate about the brand.
2014
Mentor and Investor
Sep 2014
Since its 2015 founding, MergeLane has invested in 44 companies and recruited a network of 300 mentors and 600 investors. MergeLane leverages this network, its focus on Conscious Leadership, and the MergeLane Funderator to prove that diverse leadership teams drive superior investor returns. MergeLane is an on-ramp for the extraordinary.
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