Alexis Alston
Partner at Lightship Capital
Miami, Florida
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2024 - Current
Investing in the most remarkable seed stage founders in the Midwest and South.
Principal
2022 - 2023
The next wave of innovation will come from entrepreneurs that other investors have overlooked or excluded — People of Color, Women, members of the LGBTQIAP community, and People with Disabilities. We're finding and funding these remarkable entrepreneurs across the Midwest, and beyond to make capital more inclusive and to create a more equitable future. We invest in CPG, E-Commerce, Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence, and Healthcare focused early stage companies.
Senior Associate
2019 - 2022
Lightship Capital is the new impact venture capital fund associated with the Hillman Accelerator. Based in Midwest, the fund invests in underrepresented founders in overlooked geographies across the US and beyond. The fund invests in seed rounds and is often a company's first institutional investor.
Lightship Capital invests in remarkable founders. We turn bias into profit.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of the Practice - Director of B-Lab
2024
Leads the Breakthrough Lab within the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship at Brown University. B-Lab is a student focused summer intensive entrepreneurship program. Currently an Adjunct Associate Professor of the Practice in Engineering.
Analyst
2017 - 2019
Advantage Capital provides equity and debt financing to established and emerging companies located in communities underserved by conventional sources of capital. Since 1992, the firm has invested more than $2 billion in companies from a diverse array of industry sectors, including manufacturing, technology and business services, among others, and has offices in New Orleans, St. Louis, New York, Austin and other locations.
Advantage Capital has invested over $3.8 billion in more than 800 portfolio companies and projects nationwide since 1992.
Raised $77,000,000.00 from Citi.
Ecommerce Analyst Intern
2016 - 2016
Analyze and evaluate new business opportunities and customer growth. Create strategic solutions for client issues and work collaboratively toward company goals. Work dynamically with data analytics, marketing, and technological aspects of insurance eCommerce.
Intern
2014 - 2016
Assist managing director remotely from Providence RI with sourcing of potential opportunities. Perform preliminary research on potential investment opportunities.
Chatham Capital is a private investment firm that concentrates on lower-middle market companies with sustainable cash flow from operations.