Marlon Nichols is a founding managing partner at MaC Venture Capital (formerly Cross Culture Ventures), which finds entrepreneurs who are building the future for the rest of America. He is Kauffman Fellows board member and adjunct in entrepreneurship and venture capital at the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University. Marlon’s unique eye for global trends and shifts in consumer behavior has helped him capture high-potential investments like Blavity, Fair, Faze Clan, Gimlet Media, LISNR, Mayvenn, MongoDB, Pipe, PlayVS, Thrive Market, Wonderschool and others. He’s been featured on TechCrunch, Fortune, Blavity, and NBC, and was the recipient of MVMT50’s SXSW 2018 Innovator of the Year award, Digital Diversity’s Innovation & Inclusion Change Agent award, and was named Pitchbook’s 25 Black Founders and VCs to Watch in 2018 and 2019.