Richard Odior

Zeal Capital Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Washington, DC that invests in diverse management teams building enduring companies to generate above market rate returns and impact. Zeal partners with founders who are building high-growth, early-stage businesses across the financial technology, employment pathways, and health equity verticals. Founded in 2020 by Nasir Qadree, Zeal leverages its market backed Inclusive Investing™ strategy to narrow wealth, skills, and healthcare gaps in the United States, and at scale globally. **Are you a founder looking for investment? Please submit details on your project here: https://www.zealvc.co/seed-series-a-investments/ - We review every submission.**

Your manufacturing supply chain superpower in a world of uncertainty. Partsimony helps Hardware Companies turn designs into products with less time, capital, and frustration than ever before. Partsimony is revolutionizing the way physical products are made to create a better future. #partsimony #cognitivesupplychain #hardware #manufacturing #sourcing #supplychainmanagement #supplychain #frontiertech #sustainability

Zeal Capital Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Washington, DC that invests in diverse management teams building enduring companies to generate above market rate returns and impact. Zeal partners with founders who are building high-growth, early-stage businesses across the financial technology, employment pathways, and health equity verticals. Founded in 2020 by Nasir Qadree, Zeal leverages its market backed Inclusive Investing™ strategy to narrow wealth, skills, and healthcare gaps in the United States, and at scale globally. **Are you a founder looking for investment? Please submit details on your project here: https://www.zealvc.co/seed-series-a-investments/ - We review every submission.**

Where strangers to the status quo, visionary game-changers, & industry disruptors get funded.

First Close Partners backs venture funds owned by underrepresented managers (“URMs”) -- especially to help them get to a “first close.”  We invest in venture capital firms owned and operated by URMs who are people of color, women, LGBTQIA+, Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and members of other groups that have been historically underrepresented, especially (but not solely) in the venture capital industry.

Urban Capital Network (UCN) is focused on aggregating a broader range of investors and providing them with access to exclusive investment opportunities. UCN aims to radically level the playing field of the early-stage investment ecosystem by democratizing access for a broader pool of investors and generating vital capital for underserved entrepreneurs. In a world where only the very wealthy, well connected, and major institutions have access to premium investment opportunities, which have created massive wealth for a small portion of the population, we believe the key to closing income and wealth gaps globally is to expand access to opportunities across the investment ecosystem.

Darkmode Ventures is an early-stage fund managed by 3 startup founders: Amir Shevat, Kat Orekhova, and Raphael Danilo. We have a “by builders for builders” ethos and invest in the next generation of enterprise software companies with a focus on developer platforms, AI/ML, and the modern data stack. We invest $100K-$200K checks at the early stage (Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A.) Select portfolio companies include: Drata, Merge, Bluesky, Tabnine and Puzzle.