Nassir Criss

Operator and Investor | Incoming NYU Stern MBA

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2023
VC🌍 United States
5
Total investments
2
Early stage
1
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0
Late stage
6y
Years active

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Board Observer
Jun 2022
Healthy food can be fun. Our vision is to overhaul the global stigma around healthy food by channeling our expertise in Foods and Food Tech into providing healthy carb replacements that taste as good as or better than the food were used to. ZeroCarb LYFE is a product of commitment and necessity. Our chef, a diabetic, needed to find a safer way to eat his favorite food—pizza. Through trial and error (and countless hours), he was able to create a first-of-its-kind commercial pizza crust that customers (who can’t typically indulge) now crave. ZeroCarb LYFE pizza crusts are crafted with four ingredients to create a powerful combination of nutrition and delicious taste. Available for individual purchase or as a restaurant foodservice option. Whether youre searching for a keto-based snack or a gluten-free replacement, our diabetic-friendly pizza crusts are made for everyone looking to live a ZeroCarb Lyfe. Zero carbs. Zero guilt. Eating pizza never felt (and tasted) so good!
Board Observer
Mar 2022
Our vision is to be the all-in-one wealth-building platform for 1.2 billion creators worldwide. Our mission is to eliminate traditional barriers that creators face to receiving the resources that they need to have successful careers by leveraging technology to provide them with easier access to their hard-earned money, access to funding, and the opportunity to build generational wealth. By opening up access, we believe that we will make a positive impact on the industry by making it better and smarter, and will allow for more creators to share their talents with a global audience.
Board Observer
Jan 2022
WorkTorch is a career discovery platform with a strong focus on employee retention. We help organizations create a supportive and growth-oriented work culture, providing tools and strategies to nurture and retain their valuable workforce. Through our comprehensive offerings, WorkTorch transforms careers, empowers individuals, and drives organizational excellence in the ever-evolving world of work.
Experience · 10 entries
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2023
Lead Investor/Owner
Dec 2023
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Playing in the Lowland League ⚽️ Giving football back to the fans 📈 Own a Wee Scottish Football Club 🌎 Creating a global community Caledonian Braves FC was born from an idea. A simple idea to create a community of fans who would actively be involved in the running of a football club. From humble beginnings, our vision is to bring people from all over the world together through a shared love of the beautiful game and grow not only as club but as a community. A community who will be the heart beat of the club. Our community will be diverse, different and unique, though will also be equal with each fan having a voice. Our vision is to change the way fans interact with their club. Improving fan engagement and allowing fans unique access and insight to their club. Originally set up as a modern form of crowd funding, we quickly realised that the concept is far more powerful than any business model. The project, if successful, will be a pioneering example of what can be achieved together as a forward thinking football community. We aim to give our fans a voice and a vote. JOIN THE BRAVES - DOWNLOAD THE APP 🤜 Apple store : https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/caledonian-braves-cbfc/id1478623104 Google play : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.ourfootballclub.cbfc
Principal
Aug 2023
Seen. Heard. Funded. Excellence knows no skin color, gender, sexual orientation or geography. But 90% of venture capital goes to people who look alike and live nearby. No more. Sixty8 Capital is shining a light on undercapitalized founders and innovators in the flyover states to even the game, impact the world, and generate massive venture returns. It’s past time – let’s make the change.
2022
Expert Bench
Sep 2022
Camelback Ventures aims to diversify social innovation, by giving underrepresented, early-stage entrepreneurs access to the tools they need to be successful. Camelback was built with the notion that genius is equally distributed across communities, but access to funding and start-up mentoring is often limited in communities of color and with women. Camelback provides entrepreneurs with greater access to resources. Camelback Ventures awards its fellows with 1:1 coaching, capital (start up funding, up to $40,000) and access to investors and networks (connections). Camelback Fellows, most of whom identify as people of color and/ or female, work in communities across the country. To date, Camelback fellows have built social organizations that have impacted the lives of tens of thousands of young people across the country. Camelback fellows have built STEM-based social mobile games, a charter school network in New Orleans, a mobile app to help recognize strong academic performance, and a platform to help universities track and develop at risk scholarship students. Camelback Fellows have collectively gone on to raise over $14 million in funding. For three years in a row, 3 or more Camelback Fellows have been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30.
Board of Advisors
Aug 2022
The VentureNext Midwest Fund is a spin-out of VentureNext, the Midwests largest community of VCs. We believe in the power of community and collaboration as a means to elevate founders, VCs and startups in non-traditional tech hubs.
Board Observer
Jun 2022
Healthy food can be fun. Our vision is to overhaul the global stigma around healthy food by channeling our expertise in Foods and Food Tech into providing healthy carb replacements that taste as good as or better than the food were used to. ZeroCarb LYFE is a product of commitment and necessity. Our chef, a diabetic, needed to find a safer way to eat his favorite food—pizza. Through trial and error (and countless hours), he was able to create a first-of-its-kind commercial pizza crust that customers (who can’t typically indulge) now crave. ZeroCarb LYFE pizza crusts are crafted with four ingredients to create a powerful combination of nutrition and delicious taste. Available for individual purchase or as a restaurant foodservice option. Whether youre searching for a keto-based snack or a gluten-free replacement, our diabetic-friendly pizza crusts are made for everyone looking to live a ZeroCarb Lyfe. Zero carbs. Zero guilt. Eating pizza never felt (and tasted) so good!
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