General Partner
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Candice Matthews Brackeen invests or supports investments through Lightship Capital's published strategy: Invest post-product and post-revenue from pre-seed through Series A in founders of color, LGBTQ+ founders, women and innovators with disabilities, especially across the Midwest and South.
Founders with deep insight, strong execution ability, defensible differentiation and evidence that the company can become important within Consumer Products, E-Commerce, Climate Tech.
Companies outside the firm's published stage, sector or geographic mandate are less aligned; no broader exclusion is inferred without a public statement.
Show founder-market fit, the problem and differentiated solution, technical or market evidence, venture-scale potential, the next milestone and why Lightship Capital can materially help.
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Candice Matthews Brackeen is a current General Partner at Lightship Capital, according to the firm's official roster. No additional biography is inferred where the firm does not publish one.